Farnborough private jet airport expansion please help

[Cleanair]

Hello,

If you are in Surrey, Berkshire or Hampshire and like clean air and peace please add your opposition to this by commenting on this link click here for the link to the planning before December 30th. The airport was in 2010 allowed to have 2,500 flights at weekends for private jets. Now, they are asking to increase from 8,900 to 13,500 or one every 5 minutes at less than 3,000 feet. The pollution from noise and fuel at 5,000 feet is known to cause hypertension and cardiovascular problems but of most interest to Mumsnet negatively impacts children's education. This is a growing issue and 40% of the flights are empty. The airport doesn't employ as many people as claimed and thousands of people across the South East are being effected for a few wealthy passengers. Please put the Christmas wrapping paper down for 5 minutes 😅, look at the existing comments on the planning page and add your own based on what is of most concern to you. You'll be doing your children, relatives and 🐕 a huge favour if you do. Happy to answer any questions - I'm not against flying a couple of times a year for holidays or business on a big, scheduled flight. ✈🤐

I lived under Heathrow flight path as a child.
Left school with 4 A grade A levels
Very big of you not to mind people going holiday or important business trips to make profit to enable companies to employ people

Farnborough Airport has a relatively small direct workforce, with figures suggesting around 110-379 employees directly for the airport company, but it supports a much larger local economy, creating thousands of indirect jobs; a 2024 study estimated it supports 23,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs across the UK economy, with hundreds of on-airport roles.

Oh thank god someone has come along to alert our pretty little empty heads that The Children may be affected because OF COURSE that's our primary focus, when we are not occupying ourselves with bows and ribbons and wrapping paper.

Also glad to see you are quite happy to use the big jets for for your holidays despite it being of equal - maybe even greater - concern to the people below those flight paths.

I fear perhaps you have misunderstood your audience by making raging assumptions based solely on the site name and not doing any actual looking into what goes on here. I say all this with very close ties and a lot of time spent in the area of FAB so I am not an uninterested party, but I find your post ridiculously patronising.

It's a shame that the Airport works to ensure 47,000 children beneath the flight path are not made aware of the exposure to harmful pollutants below 7,000 feet which all I wanted parents to understand. Teachers, The Sunday Times, Meridian TV and The Telegraph are doing their best to report on it to the public. We even have a Professor of Aviation Pollution at Surrey Uni. Aviation emissions contain ultra fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides. As children are more vulnerable to air pollution as their lungs and immune systems are still developing this is an issue of interest more than jobs to many concern parents. (Only 190 people work at the airport). The pollution is associated with reduced lung growth, increased asthma incidence, cardiovascular stress and long term respiratory disease. Ultrafine particles from jet engines penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream. Noise impacts learning and sleep. Farnborough Airport and Rushmoor Borough Council will likely try to wave all of this through unless more of the public are consulted about losing their access to peaceful, clean air by commenting on the application before the 30th December.