Noise in your area
Are you moving to an area near the airport? Want to know if or how your local community is affected by aircraft noise?
If so, this part of the website will provide you with some useful information. By clicking on the links below you can find out information about the areas where you live or work and understand how departing and arriving aircraft could affect you.
If you would like a detailed understanding of how noise affects your individual property please contact the Noise Communications Team.
The following links will all open PDF files in new windows.
Property Pack
Introductory letter (18KB PDF)
Plane Talk (250KB PDF)
Bothered by aircraft noise (4,932KB PDF)
Timetable for growth and development at Stansted
Arrival and departure maps
Stansted Airport has launched new maps to show where planes fly when coming into and going out of Stansted Airport. The maps use actual aircraft tracks for an average week in the summer, our peak period. The tracks are in three different colours, representing the descending and ascending heights of aircraft.
Westerly departures map (3398KB PDF)
Easterly departures map (3586KB PDF)
Q & A's for departure maps (37.3KB PDF)
Patterns of aircraft arriving to London Stansted Airport towards the North East (1,916KB PDF)
Patterns of aircraft arriving to London Stansted Airport towards the South West (1,882KB PDF)
Arrivals maps - questions and answers (23KB PDF)
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