Written questions

Heathrow Airport: Noise

2026-07-13 · Department for Transport · 18737 · Official question

Fleur Anderson

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the Appraisal of Sustainability of the draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement only modelled one set of indicative flight paths that seek to minimise the number of newly impacted people.

Answer

The analysis has used an indicative flight path design produced for the Airports Commission, which was considered the most relevant and reasonable by Department for Transport policy officials given information available at this time, in discussion with th...