People living near Heathrow should have the right to a noise free future according to council bosses. Heathrow could become the world’s first noise free airport if plans being drawn up by environmental experts are given Government backing.

The announcement was made as BAA admitted publicly that the number of people affected by noise from Heathrow was double their previous estimates. BAA made the admission as it revealed its own noise action plan, which campaigners say makes no firm commitment to reduce noise.

Cllr Barbara Reid, lead member for aviation at the London Borough of Hounslow, which is close to Heathrow, said: “We want Heathrow to be the best airport in the world. This can only happen when the Government stop trying to make it bigger and start making it better. One of the ways they can do this is to make Heathrow a world leader in addressing the impact that noise has on local communities. That’s why our environmental experts are now working on an alternative plan to make the airport as noise free as possible.”

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That's the approach the government should have taken, rather than asking BAA to write a noise action plan which automatically becomes goverment policy.