submission Fingal development plan

Fingal development plan

Dear Sir /Madam,

Firstly could I state that I recognise the importance of Dublin Airport to the economy of Fingal and to the wider national economy. As an island nation, connectivity is of enormous importance. However, there are correct ways of delivering and managing strategic infrastructure requirements whilst protecting the communities that are directly impacted by that infrastructure. It is the councils role to ensure that when necessary infrastructure for the good of all, significantly impacts the few, that the few have a voice and are protected as best they can be.

I will summarise my experience with the Dublin Airport Authority as an example of how this has had not happened effectively to date.

I live REDACTED. My young children and I are woken by air craft noise continually from six am  most mornings and often in the middle of the night.

I log these complaints but get a standard response from DAA to confirm that aircraft were crossing my property, but that there are no restrictions on night time flights from Dublin Airport and that the noise levels are within allowed standards.

To date the DAA have completely ignored/missed the point of my complaints. I have made it clear that the noise is at such a level that it wakes my children in the middle of the night when the windows are closed. This is fact, and an ongoing occurrence. Therefore the standards for noise control are obviously not adequate.

Daytime noise has significantly increased above my property during the day since the north runway opened in 2022. On the maps submitted during planning for that project I should not be affected, and yet I am.

I can understand the requirement for noise during the day from a busy airport, and although unpleasant I will get used to it over time.

However I am terrified at the prospect of night time flights from the north runway, as it will open the door to my children and I being continuously woken up for ever more.

With no recourse to DAA.. as they will merely respond as they do now, that the noise standards have been meet!

Clearly the current standards are not good enough.

In terms of DAA this is purely economic, allow refuel flights to land and take off all night, with no benefit the the wider Irish Economy (other than DAA profit margin). Make this cost beneficial by ensuring that the noise threshold is so high, that DAA rarely break the standard ( even if hundreds of people have their lives ruined) and therefore don’t have to offset part of this additional profit in insulating properties affected.
On the basis of the above it is imperative that the allowable noise levels from air traffic at night time is reduced to 40 decibels as proposed in the amendment to the development plan.