Passionate letter from a distressed victim of Gatwick’s concentrated flight path noise
Dear Mr Wingate. On weekdays my alarm is normally set for 06:40 am. At 05:52 today one of your metal gods tore through the sky above my house and woke my entire family. This happens on a daily basis now and more often than not earlier than this. One child in tears, a wife in despair and I, with an ever growing sense of rage and contempt towards your airport. I also understand that the narrow and concentrated flight path which you began in 2013 may have wiped £XX,000 off the value of my house, for which I paid a hefty premium to live in a quiet Tudor village. If you do not understand or appreciate the horror your concentrated narrow flight path has created, it is time someone made you wake up to it. My family, my neighbours and I have had enough, Mr Wingate. You should act on this email and the thousands of other similar letter you have received, and revert to multiple broad flight paths arriving at Gatwick. This needs to be done sooner rather than later….. The actions of a private company (Gatwick Airport) should not be bringing about emotional and financial ruin for thousands of people. And this is precisely what is happening. Imagine if Jaguar Land Rover built a testing track next to their factory without any kind of permission which generated this amount of noise and ran it from before 6am to 12pm incessantly, every day. Would that be permitted to carry on?
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Screen shot of the plane flying over Chiddingstone at 5.52am on 3.3.2015 – with details added to identify the flight. http://flighttracking.casper.aero/lgw/
Letter to Stewart Wingate:
3.3.2015
Dear Mr Wingate
On weekdays my alarm is normally set for 06:40 am.
At 05:52 today one of your metal gods tore through the sky above my house and woke my entire family. This happens on a daily basis now and more often than not earlier than this. I have had enough.
One child in tears, a wife in despair and I, with an ever growing sense of rage and contempt towards your airport.
I also understand that the narrow and concentrated flight path which you began in 2013 may have wiped £XX,000 off the value of my house, for which I paid a hefty premium to live in a quiet Tudor village.
If you do not understand or appreciate the horror your concentrated narrow flight path has created, it is time someone made you wake up to it.
My family, my neighbours and I have had enough, Mr Wingate.
You should act on this email and the thousands of other similar letter you have received, and revert to multiple broad flight paths arriving at Gatwick. This needs to be done sooner rather than later.
Yours sincerely,
(Name supplied)
Chiddingstone
Kent
TN8
This aircraft noise victim has also written to his MP, Sir John Stanley to say:
Dear Sir John,
We should not have to write emails like the one below – and innumerable emails at that.
The actions of a private company (Gatwick Airport) should not be bringing about emotional and financial ruin for thousands of people. And this is precisely what is happening.
Imagine if Jaguar Land Rover built a testing track next to their factory without any kind of permission which generated this amount of noise and ran it from before 6am to 12pm incessantly, every day. Would that be permitted to carry on?
I don’t really know what else to say, other than I am drifting into a state of despair and desperate people do desperate things.
I will not let this man and his foreign company steal my family’s quality of life. It is theft, plain and simple.
I know you are doing all you can to help, and it is greatly appreciated.
However, if I feel like this, and I consider myself a pretty stable and lucky individual, imagine how many other of your constituents must be feeling.
This is a genuine catastrophe in waiting with seemingly no senior Governmental support or understanding of the real situation.
This noise bombardment has to stop. West Kent cannot take another Spring/Summer of this.
I urge you to elevate this to the very highest level please.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
(Name supplied)
Chiddingstone
Kent TN8