Response 4005469
Response to request for information
Reference
4005469
Response date
6 May 2026
Request
I am contacting you in regards to a coordinated change seeking to modernise a busy portion of airspace in the centre of the UK called the Manchester Terminal Manoeuvring Area, which is made up of airspace changes from East Midlands, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester Airport.
Part of this change involves the upgrade of arrival and departure routes for each of these airports below 7,000ft, which will be achieved through an Airspace Change Proposal (ACP) which follows the seven-stage CAP1616 process (more information on this can be found here.)
Part of the process involves undertaking aircraft noise assessments which must take into account any planned residential developments (as well as other sensitive property types listed below) which have been granted consent within potentially impacted districts, as well as any known housing provision allocated within local development frameworks, or contained in emerging draft Local Plans.
Accordingly, I am reaching out to you as your district has been identified as potentially impacted by one or more of the airport’s ACP changes.
We require information on planned developments (with consent granted since 1st May 2024) in your district for the following property types:
- Residential (Large-scale developments of over 20 dwelling units only)
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Places of worship (any denomination)
- Care-homes (no minimum size)
Please ensure any developments listed include the application reference number, site address/location, description of development/proposals, decision date and appeal decision date (if applicable). Having regards to the PS2 codes used for your government returns, we believe these developments are likely to fall under the following codes: N01, N02, N05, N06, N07, N08, N11, N12, N17, N18, N20.
Response
Planning applications are available to view on our online Planning Search and using the advanced search, Applications Search. You can search for planning applications using the key word field. You can filter the search to the years that you require and clicking on the details/important dates tab you will see the information that you require.
The Emerging Local Plan is available to view on our website.