Airports and the value of your home.



 How can an airport lower the value of your home?


While it might seem like an odd question, living near a major or even a minor airport can actually lower the value of your home. The main way that it does this is via noise pollution that comes from the aircraft's engines and operation as it enters and exits the airport. A community study around which focused on noise pollution being a major annoyance was carried out in twenty sites around the Gimpo and Gimhae international airports, the study was carried out using B&K type 3597 noise measurement equipment and surveys were carried out within 100 meters of the measurement sites (Effect of background noise levels on community annoyance from aircraft noise). The findings of this study were that background noise was one of the important factors for community annoyance (Effect of background noise levels on community annoyance from aircraft noise). The major take away of this study is that due to the annoyance of noise from the airport it can drive the value of your home downwards and also help to move prospective buyers away from the property, making it harder to sell the property once its been bought.


Is there anything that can be done about this?


So far the FAA has noticed this problem and did research into it during the 1970's and came up with a solution. It's called the Part 150 Program due to the fact that is under 14 CFR Part 150, it was put into place int 1979 and determines mitigation strategies for airports to use in reducing the noise pollution of the airport and lower the number of people which it affects (The FAA Airport Noise Program). Part 150 allows airports to modify their own procedures for take-off and landing to even rerouting through more viable areas of the airport to reduce the sound footprint, also the may purchase the land around the airport to maintain land use that is compatible with operations, and finally they may choose to pay for sound insulating material to be placed in any residences, schools, or other infrastructure in the immediate area where the land may not be available for purchase (The FAA Airport Noise Program). Since its initial inception the FAA has had over 275 participants and has also had 134 of those participants already plan further improvements and modifications showing that Part 150 has proved how useful and good it can be.



References

Effect of background noise levels on community annoyance from aircraft noise - PubMed (nih.gov)

    Effect of background noise levels on community annoyance, Retrieved 19 August 2022


The FAA Airport Noise Program | Federal Aviation Administration

    The FAA Airport Noise Program, Retrieved 19 August 2022


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