The establishment of a curfew, long demanded by local residents, was announced by the government at the end of 2019, following a public consultation following the abandonment of the airport transfer project. Nantes to Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
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Radical measure to reduce noise pollution. A midnight to 6 a.m. curfew will come into effect on Friday April 8 at Nantes-Atlantique airport until further notice. No aircraft will be able to land or take off during this period. The movement of the noisiest planes will also be prohibited between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., according to a ministerial decree published in early October in the Official Journal. “The implementation of this order will reduce the nuisance suffered by the communities and populations concerned”welcomed the Airport Nuisance Control Authority (Acnusa).
The establishment of a curfew, long demanded by local residents, was announced by the government at the end of 2019, following a public consultation following the abandonment of the airport transfer project. Nantes to Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The Coceta (Collective of citizens exposed to air traffic) said “half satisfied” by these measures.
The Nantes organization demanded a total interruption of flights between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. “The noise will always prevent the children from sleeping. Me, even with double glazing, I find it difficult to watch a film”assured AFP the vice-president of the collective, Géraldine Maisonneuve, a resident of Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu, a town located five kilometers from the airport.
In mid-March, the 24 mayors of the metropolis of Nantes had challenged by mail the Minister of Transport “so that the State improves the methods of aid for the soundproofing of housing”, to which 3,730 households are eligible. The city officials deplored that delays “unreasonable” and a remainder “too high” grow “number of households to abandon the idea of benefiting from this aid”.