The recent draft decision concerning Dublin Airport Authority’s (daa) “relevant action” (RA) focuses on the number of night flights and the operational hours for the north runway.
However, a major issue now brought to light by An Bord Pleanála’s (ABP) Planning Inspector is daa’s deviation from the originally approved route that was a key aspect of the 2007 planning permission granted for the north runway.
In their 432-page report, ABP’s Planning Inspector clarifies that “the flight patterns submitted in the applicant’s supplementary information […] differ from those submitted in the original EIS for the North Runway application.” This is a very important clarification for the 30,000 people unnecessarily suffering the effects of aircraft noise.
In effect the DAA are breaking planning laws and Ratoath and Ashbourne are the collatoral damage.
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