\n The Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA) has written to Leeds City Council this week saying it believes 500 planes have flown unlawfully at night during this summer. It is urging the council to “urgently take enforcement action”.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, a spokesperson for Leeds Bradford Airport said the group’s claim was “incorrect” and that no breach had occurred.\n<\/p>\n
\n Nick Hodgkinson, Chair of GALBA, said: \u201cThis summer, LBA has made more night flights than are permitted at Heathrow and around 500 of those flights should not have been allowed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere was a Public Inquiry into the correct legal meaning of the local night flight conditions earlier this year and the Planning Inspector ruled that planes with a noise \u2018quota count\u2019 below 0.5 are not allowed to fly at night at all. The Inspector also helpfully said that Leeds City Council has the power to make it lawful for those planes to fly at night and then they would be counted towards the cap on night time flying.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut the council has chosen to do nothing. It hasn\u2019t made it lawful for those planes to fly at night and it hasn\u2019t done anything to stop them flying unlawfully. And to add insult to injury the Council is not counting these aircraft towards the night flight cap. The result is hundreds more night flights than should be allowed, harming human health and polluting our environment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Leeds Bradford Airport added: “The planning enquiry was very clear that the movement of quieter aircraft are not counted towards the limits, so we think the appropriate thing to do would be to wait for the council to make any official determination \u2013 which we are awaiting an update on.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: \u201cThe council is yet to complete its analysis of the flight data for the 2025 BST period. Consequently, it would be therefore inappropriate to comment further at this stage on whether a breach has occurred.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe recognise that planning issues relating to the airport are the subject of public interest and we always seek to work with the airport \u2013 and within the scope of the planning system \u2013 to address concerns raised.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt should be noted that existing planning permits the airport to operate on a 24-hour basis within defined carefully limits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA) has written to Leeds City Council this week saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-584722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115587785966055294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}