Jul 11 2018
This Autumn, the Government is expected to launch a Green Paper setting out its proposals for a new UK aviation strategy, including policies to limit noise and emissions. The Government has already indicated its willingness to consider new environmental policies, …
Jun 28 2018
On Monday night MPs voted in favour of the Government’s proposal for a third runway at Heathrow: the Airports National Policy Statement. 415 voted in favour of the NPS and 119 against. Conservative MPs were subject to a whip on …
Jun 26 2018
Contact: Tim Johnson tim@aef.org.uk // Cait Hewitt cait@aef.org.uk // 0203 859 9371 (Out of office hours 07710 381742) AEF is disappointed by the outcome. We can only assume that a lot of MPs were won over by the Heathrow PR machine, and by its …
Jun 8 2018
The final version of the NPS, together with updated versions of the draft of papers and analysis that accompany it, was published on Tuesday. In a statement to the House of Commons, the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling set out the …
Apr 13 2018
On Saturday 7thApril the Government published the outcome of its call for evidence on the Aviation Strategy ‘Beyond the Horizon’. It’s not a particularly inspiring read in terms of environmental ambition. While the Government aspires for the UK to be …
Mar 23 2018
Heathrow plans beset with problems and likely to face legal challenge, concludes parliamentary committee The Transport Committee, appointed to provide the official parliamentary scrutiny of the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans, has today published its findings. The report concludes that the …
Mar 22 2018
Every five years (known as “rounds”), major airports are required to revise existing plans that identify noise impacts, and ways to manage them. The plans – Noise Action Plans (NAPs) – are drawn up for areas identified as being impacted …
Mar 8 2018
Aviation is almost completely dependent on fossil fuels, and together with agriculture and shipping is widely considered a ‘hard to decarbonise’ sector. Partly because of this, aviation has so far been given extra leeway in the setting of climate targets …
Mar 7 2018
In the final few weeks of the Transport Committee’s scrutiny of the Government’s proposals for Heathrow expansion, Transport Minister Chris Grayling has written to the committee admitting that the air quality cost of expansion that was presented alongside the draft …
Mar 1 2018
We are delighted to announce the publication of our 2017 Annual Report. It was another busy year here at AEF, with our work focussing on advocating for community engagement in airspace change, working to strengthen the UN’s scheme for offsetting carbon …