This is what it's like to live on the noisiest street in Britain

Meet Emma Healey, the woman who’s barely had a proper night’s sleep in nearly three decades - because she lives minutes away from Heathrow airport.

Emma, 31, lives with her mum Jane and two year old daughter Felicity on Lewin Terrace, one of the noisiest streets in the country - just a stone’s throw from the airport’s Terminal Four.

Emma, who has lived by the airport for 28 years, said, “Even after all this time, I’m not used to the sound. Sometimes I can even hear the planes being filled with fuel - that’s how close they are.

“Christmas is particularly noisy, and you can literally hear an airplane going over every 90 seconds - it’s just become the norm for me. In the summer, it gets so hot in the house that we can’t get the windows open.

“Trying to watch TV is particularly impossible, you have to turn it up so loud you don’t enjoy watching TV any more, blaring in your face.”

“They say the airplanes are supposed to stop at 11pm but they don’t, they still carry on through the night.”

Every year, some 475,000 ‘movements’ - the industry term for arrivals and departures - take place at Heathrow, with a plane taking off or landing on average every 45 seconds.

Emma says the noise from the airport has not only affected her sleep at home, but also her social life.

She says, “Having friends over, I always suggest they can stay over if they have a drink, but they kindly decline because it’s too noisy for them."