Farnborough Airport - New Airspace Change Proposal

Farnborough Airport LTD (FAL) is undertaking another Airspace Change Proposal (ACP). It is due to start Q3/Q4 2022 and complete around 2027/28.

This ACP is to take in the objectives of the Airspace Modernisation Strategy (AMS) as set out in the Government’s wider Future Airspace Strategy Implementation ( FASI (S) and FASI (N)) and will tick all the boxes these strategies include. The AMS aim is to deliver quicker, quieter, safer, cleaner journeys with greater capacity. It is due to last up to 2040. All major airports are involved with this.

FAL see this as an opportunity to improve their airspace efficiency, which could mean giving some airspace back and stopping some circum-navigation of the airport by flights landing. The current ACP has to work around other major airports such as Heathrow, Gatwick and Southampton. Because all major airports are undertaking this process now it is important for FAL to be involved early (although by their own admission they are late to the table with Stage 1) to help define a new airspace that can work better alongside our neighbouring airspaces.

Public consultation will not start until around 2024/5, though we are intending to have our say via certain stakeholders involved earlier in the process. If you have concerns you’d like us to pass on please inform clerk@saspc.info as soon as possible.

You can lobby your MP if you believe the public should have a say earlier in the process: Angela Richardson - is the Member of Parliament for the Borough of Guildford angela.richardson.mp@parliament.uk Phone: 020 7219 3000