Belfast City to install noise monitoring system
19.01.08
Work has started on the installation of a £500,000 aircraft noise monitoring system at Belfast City Airport. The investment is being made after recommendations made in December 2006 by an Examination in Public of the airport's planning agreement.
The system was part of a trade-off for the raising of the cap on passenger numbers at the airport, one of the constraints holding back the development of new routes. Local residents' groups have long campaigned about noise levels.
The system is capable of measuring the noise of every aircraft movement and displaying the route taken by each aircraft landing or taking off. Topsonic, a German company that has supplied similar systems at airports across Europe, will install two monitoring stations, one at Nettlefield Primary School in east Belfast and the other at Kinnegar, near Holywood.
Brian Ambrose, the airport's chief executive, said the noise management system being installed was on a par with those in use at major airports in Britain. He said: 'We hope that approval will be given for the Nettlefield site in the next few weeks, which would allow installation to proceed and the first noise reports to be produced for the Airport Forum in early summer.'
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