Planning

The UK planning system plays an important role in controlling the environmental effects of airport and airfield operations, as well as setting general policies relating to new development or expansion.

The AEF lobbies and can advise its members on planning legislation and regulations, development plans, public inquiries, permitted development rights, environmental assessment, and planning agreements.

AEF has compiled a new online handbook, ‘Airports and Planning’, which offers a complete revision of our 1995 publication ‘Aviation, the environment and planning law’. Chapters can be downloaded from the list below.

1. Worried about an airport expansion?
2. What are an airport’s impacts? (2.95MB)
3. How are airports planned?
4. How do I respond to a planning application?
5. How do I comment on a plan or its assessments?
6. How do I comment on an environmental statement?
7. Is appropriate assessment needed?
8. How do I present at a public inquiry?
   1. Example a
   2. Example b
   3. Example c
9. Appendix A – What does the Air Transport White Paper say about my airport?
10. Appendix B – What is the status of my airport’s masterplan?
11. Appendix C – What nature conservation sites lie close to my airport? (5.25MB). File not available at present