Locals set to lose Schiphol noise protection
29 September 2008
The public stands to lose its legal protection against excessive noise from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, according to leaks from a confidential report obtained by the Volkskrant.
Residents currently have the right to go to court if noise from the airport exceeds a legally fixed maximum.
However, this legal protection could be scrapped and replaced by ‘agreements’ between the aviation sector and residents, the paper says, quoting from recommendations drawn up by former government minister Hans Alders.
‘The advice is the worst imaginable scenario for residents. It means that a million people around Schiphol will be sitting targets for noise made by planes,’ says Guus Berkhout, a noise specialist at Delft University who has seen the recommendations. He describes the proposal as ‘shameful’ in the Volkskrant.
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Locals set to lose Schiphol noise protection
I live right by an airport and the noise dont bother me. They just need to get good insulation and stop moaning. Ater all they more than likely benefited from having an airport nearby especially the size of schipol.
The amount of airlines going bust or likely to go bust over the next few years will probably reduce the noise level anyway
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The amount of airlines going bust or likely to go bust over the next few years will probably reduce the noise level anyway
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