Sign our petition against Edinburgh Airport’s plans to route aircraft over Queensferry.
Edinburgh Airport has been reviewing its flight paths over the last year.
In its first consultation, Edinburgh Airport promised to look at flight paths within a broad ‘envelope’ – this did not include aircraft being routed over Queensferry.
However this second consultation proposes something completely different. The new plans involve a preferred flight path (called D0) for departing planes. If approved, the new flight path would route many thousands of aircraft directly over Queensferry. This is what it looks like.
The change would substantially increase the impact of aircraft noise on people in Queensferry during the day and throughout the night. However, this is also unnecessary as there are other possible flight paths which would avoid Queensferry and other more populated areas.
Local people are rightly shocked by this. There was no suggestion of such a proposal in the airport’s first consultation last year.
The airport has admitted it changed its plans because so many people in West Lothian objected during the first consultation. The airport is ignoring an obvious truth. People in Queensferry would also have objected if this current plan had been proposed last year.
So the challenge before us is clear. We need as many people as possible in Queensferry to object to the airport’s latest plans. After all, there are more sensible options which would see aircraft routed over less populated areas.
The consultation is currently running until 30 April. Your local MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton and I are working closely on this but we need your help.
There are three things you can do;
1. Sign our petition against the preferred new flight path. It takes just two minutes to do.
2. Object directly to the airport via the consultation – more details here.
3. Email a link to this page to five people you know in Queensferry and ask them to sign the petition and object. We need as much support as possible.
We need as many people to make their views known in this short period.
Please help our campaign today.
Kevin Lang
PS – if you do one thing today then please sign our petition and ask your friends, family and neighbours to do the same.