Leeds Bradford Airport plan ignores public opinion – Yorkshire Post Letters

AS a long time Horsforth resident, I feel compelled to write in response to recent letters on Leeds Bradford Airport (The Yorkshire Post, July 10).

Noise and pollution are very real problems for local residents. Many a good night’s sleep has been ruined by the late night arrival from Turkey.

Now is the time to seriously reconsider flying. Do you realise that this proposed development will cause an uplift of 165 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2030?

Now where is that in the marketing material? This ridicules any climate emergency, and is hardly the “green and sustainable recovery” that the Comittee on Climate Change wants to see post-Covid.

LBA needs to guarantee time-specific reductions in their carbon emissions and the purchase of quieter planes before this development is y viable.

As for the promise of thousands more jobs, all I see are losses within the aviation industry. Why should holidays mean flying anyway?

I’m sure many people could be seduced by this new build, but until that time, I am very much in the camp of the naysayers.

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