{"id":76871,"date":"2025-05-05T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76871\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:17:08","slug":"edinburgh-ban-on-red-arrows-and-raf-fighter-jet-flights-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76871\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh ‘ban’ on Red Arrows and RAF fighter jet flights proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aerial displays over the capital could be banned over environmental and noise pollution concerns, according to plans put forward by an Edinburgh councillor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flypasts take place every year for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo every year in August, and sometimes happen as part of other events as well.<\/p>\n

Now Green<\/a> councillor Dan Heap has brought a motion to the city council to explore banning the displays.<\/p>\n

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And he said the noise disturbance it causes \u2013 and the potentially traumatic impact flypasts can have on people fleeing war \u2013 were grounds to try and get rid of them.<\/p>\n

Cllr Heap told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \u201cWe want to reduce these to, preferably, zero, but at least get fewer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main user of these, the Edinburgh Tattoo, has already decreased them, there\u2019s fewer than there used to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it has a number of flight paths of jet aircraft during the tattoo, which is in August \u2013 it\u2019s purely for entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that the city\u2019s Green group believes the negative environmental impacts of the displays are severe.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get a hold of what the precise emissions are from these particular jets, and that\u2019s not public \u2013 but I found some other military jets.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they have significant carbon emissions. And yes, it\u2019s a relatively brief flyover, but they\u2019re flying from airbases that aren\u2019t near Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes they come from Lossiemouth [in Moray], or from an airbase in England. So they\u2019re flying quite a long way.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yes, it might seem like the flight is relatively short over the castle, very short, but you\u2019ve got to factor in the time they\u2019re flying to and from the air base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cllr Heap said that while passenger flying was currently essential, air displays are purely for entertainment.<\/p>\n

The motion aims to use licensing to restrict the number of air displays in the city, given that the events that involve them require public entertainment licences.<\/p>\n

Cllr Heap envisions a public safety element or some other reason being adhered to event licences that bans flypasts, but he says officers would be better equipped to explore what using licence conditions to ban flypasts would involve.<\/p>\n

The motion, if passed by councillors, would call on officers to present a report on ways in which such a ban could be enacted by the August full Edinburgh council meeting.<\/p>\n

It also says that displays involving drones or model aircraft would be allowed.<\/p>\n

Cllr Heap\u2019s motion will be discussed at the next full meeting of Edinburgh Council on Thursday, 8 May, which you can view here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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