We had a particularly well attended Annual Parish Meeting on Monday evening, which included a excellent presentation by Michael Fairchild, an SSE volunteer. The minutes will be made available shortly but in the meantime we all need to be sending in our responses to the NATS Consultation, The deadline date has been extended from May 22nd to June 19th. To help with your response click on download SSE response advice pdf file
This is a particularly important meeting as it will be your opportunity to have your say on the NATS proposals for flight path changes and the application for the second runway. There will be a representative from SSE to help the process. Do come along to the village hall and support your village.
NATS are proposing new flight paths refered to as Noise Preferential Routes (NPR). Berden will be adversly affected by aircraft taking off from the Stansted South West runway and heading North and West. To access the relevant section click on the follwoing link http://www.consultation.nats.co.uk/uploads/TCN-PartG-E-HERTS-and-W-ESSEX.pdf figure G9 on page G17 and figure G10 on page G19 are the most graphic.
Berden Parish Council is joining with Manuden and Farnham councils to fight these proposals. If you would like to comment on them, or have any expertise that will help the process, please contact Philip Scatchard (PC Chairman) 877 or Andrew Nelson (PC Clerk) 784.
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