Bosses at Leeds-Bradford Airport have been criticised over a consultation about noise.

Members of the public, a civic society and councillors claim airport staff did not provide enough publicity about the consultation, meaning many did not have their say on plans at the site.

People will get the chance to quiz airport director of operation and engineering Carl Lapworth next week.

But their appeals for a longer consultation period could fall on deaf ears at Monday’s Leeds City Council North West Outer area committee meeting as airport bosses claim they have done everything by the book.

The meeting will give councillors chance to express some of the frustration felt by people who felt not enough had been done to make them aware a document was out for consultation Aireborough Civic Society is among those which have concerns about the consultation, while Horsforth Councillor Brian Cleasby said there had been a complaint to councillors about light-aircraft noise. But he stressed that noise from night-time flying by passenger jets could potentially be a bigger problem for the future.

“I think the big worry is the fact that we now have an ambitious airport management who have the ability to extend flights into night-time,” he said. But he believed the biggest airport-related problem facing the community was that of increased traffic on the roads.

An airport spokesman said everything possible had been done to publicise the noise consultation. “We followed the full DEFRA consultation process,” she said. “We put copies in the library, we advertised in the local press and there were media articles.”

She said the airport already had a consultative committee, which involved local residents and the city council, and that this had also been involved in the consultation process.