Regulation and Environment
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has recently suggested that it is minded to specify the Air Park under Section 5 of the Civil Aviation Act. This follows an application made to the Secretary of State for Transport in 2009. Were the DfT to specify it, Wycombe Air Park would be the only airfield ever to receive a Section 5 order in the 28 years the Act has been in existence. If the Air Park is specified, the UK Civil Aviation Authority will play a more direct role in regulating the environmental impact of air traffic at Wycombe Air Park. The DfT's consideration of a Section 5 order is in response to continuing complaints about noise from the airfield, which operates around 90,000 aircraft movements each year. Complaints about flying from the Air Park continue to run at about 300 per quarter, according to data from the Air Park's Joint Consultative Committee, although the Air Park maintains that most are not valid. Wycombe District Council supported the request for the section 5 order.
An earlier request for a section 5 order was made by Wycombe District Council in 1988, but was turned down in favour of an expert Inquiry to identify ways in which the Air Park could improve. The whole process including the decision not to specify and the subsequent Inquiry ran from 1988–1990, and resulted in the O'Connor report in 1991.
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