a call to introduce a night curfew at Blagnac airport
This is one of the scenarios used for reduced reduced the noise emitted by Toulouse-Blagnac airport, the residents have not complained for years. Supported by certain elected officials, the member associations of the Environmental Advisory Commission (CCE) of the airport launch an appeal for the study of an air curfew. A call addressed to prefect of Haute-Garonne, the director of the DSAC and the three presidents of the local authorities.
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Why a curfew?
Based on the recommendations of theSGD advocating one night of 8 hours, the members of the CEC call for the establishment of a curfew “on part of the night, from 11:30 p.m. to 6 a.m.“. A measure that would be accompanied by “strict restrictions on the number and type of aircraft able to fly at the beginning of the night, 10pm-11.30pm, and at the end of the night, 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.“.
According to the signatory associations, this curfew would aim to “return to a level of nocturnal noise less than or equal to that measured in 2010, in accordance with the commitments made during the creation of the Night Heart Observatory, taking the two main north and south sensors as a reference”.
Supporting this approach alongside other elected officials, the regional councilors Jerome Monamy and Pierre Lacaze announce, in a press release, an alternative solution for night flights. “Another organization is possible to allow the delivery of goods, either through another mode, such as fast freight trains or the use of different regional airport platforms“.
A massive appeal
In a letter, the members of the CCE of Toulouse-Balgnac airport explain the reason for this call.
We note that the measures put in place as part of the 2012-2017 Environmental Noise Protection Plan (PPBE) have not made it possible to control airborne noise around the platform, that the number of people subjected to nocturnal noise has increased sharply and has exceeded, as of 2017, the projections for 2030 and that the noise zones in Cœur de Nuit have extended to the most populated districts”. Thus, the signatories call on “all members of the CEC, elected officials and representatives of the institutions to join our call for clear and measurable noise reduction objectives to be set for the new PPBE”.
“This request, which emanates from the member associations of CCE, and many elected officials themselves members or not of this commission, is not exceptional, it is integrated into all the PPBE / Balanced Approach process, and like the ‘recent example of Nantes has shown that this study can be perfectly integrated into the new PPBE’, emphasizes Chantal Beer-Seekerthe president of the CCNAAT (Collective Against Aerial Nuisances of the Toulouse Agglomeration).
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