Hi and thank you very much for posting the link to the consultation, which I completed this morning. I have to be honest and admit that I also find it a bit hard to believe that some people think we should just sit back and take all kinds of assaults just because we live in London! By the same token, people should not complain about graffity in their street....they live in London after all and you get graffity in big cities! The fact that the government is running a consultaiton means that it is a widespread concern and not just a few people whingeing(as someone said in an earlier post, it is a matter of disastrous town planning the fact that hundreds of planes everyday have to 'park' over London to get to Heathrow). This morning I was waken up by 3 planes passing over my house between 5am and 5.30am! (by the way, I do have double glazing and wear earplugs because otherwise I would wake up before 6am everyday thanks to the planes, but one of them had fallen out. However this is not a solution. What about people that have kids? They certainly can't sleep with earplugs... It is important to remember that when we are not passengers (which is most of the time) we are all citizens that have the right to a night sleep and to be productive the following day....The economy would not collapse if planes were not allowed to fly to HTW between 11pm and 7am and to suggest otherwise is madness. At the end of the day nobody on this forum bought one of the houses near Heathrow going cheap. We bougth a house nowhere near the airport and it is only fair that we demand that planes do not fly during the night or too early in the morning. The current agreement ends in October 2012 and I am really concerned that the rules preventing Heathrow from receiving flights throughout the nigth will be relaxed. It's importat to act and to fill in the consultation questionnaire.....otherwise we will all end up having to move!
