{"id":748516,"date":"2026-08-24T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:20:10","slug":"leeds-bradford-airport-proposes-grants-for-residents-to-tackle-night-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748516\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Bradford Airport proposes grants for residents to tackle night noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeowners near Leeds Bradford Airport could be given money to install air conditioning in bedrooms to help reduce noise from night-time flights.<\/p>\n

Airport bosses said the proposed offer was a first for UK airports, with grants to replace windows also announced as part of new proposals to “modernise” its night flying rules.<\/p>\n

Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) had been accused of breaching a night-flight limit during the summer season by campaigners, but Leeds City Council ruled it had not breached the cap.<\/a><\/p>\n

Its latest night flying proposals submitted to the local authority seek to replace a “decades-old movement-based system with a modern noise-based framework”.<\/p>\n

LBA had been limited to 2,920 aircraft movements between 23:00 and 07:00 BST annually, with Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA) claiming it had been breached for four successive years between 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n

It is now applying to condense night-time hours to 23:30 and 05:59, stating the move would bring LBA “in line with other UK airports”.<\/p>\n

Under the latest proposals, LBA also wants to change the current air traffic movement restrictions to a quota count system.<\/p>\n

This would allow, it said, for a modern system which “incentivises quieter, more environmentally-friendly planes”. <\/p>\n

Vincent Hodder, LBA chief executive officer, said the proposed changes would modernise operating conditions introduced “more than three decades ago”.<\/p>\n

“It enables us to encourage quieter, cleaner aircraft while maintaining robust environmental controls and providing meaningful support for our neighbours,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is about creating a stronger, more sustainable and better-connected Yorkshire for the decades ahead, this is not the ‘thousands more night flights’ some would claim.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homeowners near Leeds Bradford Airport could be given money to install air conditioning in bedrooms to help reduce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}