Heathrow Airport noise complaint every five minutes

In October 2016 we reported that Heathrow Airport receives a noise complaint on average every five minutes. The data was scraped using Google Spreadsheets' IMPORTHTML function from Heathrow operational data.

Get the data

• Heathrow complaints - Google spreadsheet
• Heathrow complaints - CSV

Visualisation

• Bar chart: Heathrow noise complaints by area, July to Sep 2016
• Infographic: Heathrow noise complaints
• Interactive slider: See how proposed flightpaths with the third runway differ from current flightpaths

Other visualisation

Rob Radburn created this visualisation using our data. We rather like it.

Examples of process

• Dan Wainright has written about how he scraped complaints data here
• You can find an example of a scraper here