Finningley Airport Health Impact Assessment

The planning application to develop the former RAF airbase at Finningley into a commercial airport was submitted to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council in November 1999.  The application proposes to cater for the movement of over 2 million passengers a year by 2014 and 62,000 tonnes of freight.  Environmental, economic and transport impact assessments were conducted as part of the application. However, it was stipulated that a health impact assessment be conducted before the application is considered (although this was not a statutory requirement). The health impact assessment was initiated in May 2000 by Doncaster Health Authority, in partnership with Health and Public Protection, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (jointly funded).  Technical support was provided by the MRC Institute for Environment and Health, University of Leicester, and the Public Health GIS Unit, University of Sheffield School Of Health And Related Research. This document is the final report which describes the key potential health impacts of the airport development.  The annexes contain the technical information used to compile the report:

1. Policy appraisal of the planning application documents
2. Profiling of the local communities affected by the airport development
3. Results from stakeholder and key informant interviews
4. Evidence from the literature on the likelihood of health impacts.

To download the report in full:  right-click on a link and choose Save Target As... (Internet Explorer) or Save Link As... (Netscape). Please note: because of the large file size, the report has been split into 5 documents.   However each document is still quite large.   All of the following downloads are Microsoft Word documents.