The Helicopter Noise Coalition is a forum for everyone in the UK whose lives are adversely affected by helicopter noise.

We were astonished to learn that there is still no such thing in law as "noise nuisance" as applied to helicopters.  Whilst we recognise the needs of essential police, air ambulance, or national security helicopters, we also suffer the intrusive noise of the non-essential others.

Additionally, we fully recognise the vested interests of helicopter manufacturers and heliport and helicopter operators, who have invested large amounts of their own, or their investors', capital to generate shareholder profits.  However these profits are generated at considerable environmental cost. 

Our aims are:

1.   To provide the platform on which to bring together, to form a significant body of pressure, all the residents' groups and action campaigns that have formed near Air Parks, Heliports, and even military sites.

2.   To bring nationwide evidence of this problem to our elected representatives at Westminster.

3.   To effect changes in Aviation Law so that residents living in areas badly affected by helicopter noise  will have rights enabling them to negotiate, with sanctions, sensible helicopter-free time slots during weekends and public holidays, as has been achieved in France.

4.   To bring residents' concerns to the heart of local government by questioning seriously why local tax-payers receive very poor financial value as a result of Councils levying annual peppercorn rents for Air Parks land -  often less than small local pubs pay their brewers, and certainly proportionately far less when compared with personal Council Tax Bills. 

5.   To have helicopter training located in uninhabited areas or over the sea.   We regard it is highly inappropriate to locate helicopter training in the highly-populated areas such as  the Thames Valley or other highly populated regions.

If you share our aims, register yourself or your group/association with us.  See Contact Us above for details.