Needless Noise : M40 Chilterns environmental group : motorway noise pollution

We represent 25,000 people who live along the M40 corridor from Junction 3 at Loudwater, past High Wycombe, through the Chilterns AONB and The Aston Rowant Nature Reserve to Junction 8 at Wheatley in South Oxfordshire.

Day and Night we all suffer from intolerable noise pollution.

These pictures represent what we endure at present. The other picture gives you an idea of life without the road noise.

We realise that the Motorway is here to stay but our aim is to reduce its impact on the environment.

February 2010:

Local Action Group Delights in Short-list Success

After years of campaigning, members of M40 Chilterns Environment Group (M40CEG) received with delight the news that the proposal to quieten stretches of the M40 had moved a step closer to becoming a reality.

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January 2010:

At last, we have made a real step forward, one to which many of you contributed.

In June and July, we distributed questionnaires asking you your experiences and ideas about motorway noise, to help us prepare evidence to support the submission of 'M40 Traffic Noise J3 to J8' to Central Government jointly by WDC and SODC. Read more >