Environmental campaigners have described BAA’s consultation on its Heathrow noise action plan as “phoney”.

West London Friends of the Earth said the 16-week consultation, which ended on Monday, was biased and did not seek to reduce the impact of noise for residents.

BAA invited communities to give feedback on how it plans to manage the impact of the sound of aircraft between 2010 and 2015. The air operator estimated 725,500 residents live inside the 57-decibel contour when it launched the consultation in June.

Nic Ferriday, of Friends of the Earth, said: “BAA has no incentive to take any notice of comments made by residents or by groups such as Friends of the Earth.”

He added: “The key point about the plan is that it does not address the serious noise problem which already exists and seek to reduce it. Instead, it is a plan to manage noise and allow it to increase.”

A spokeswoman for BAA declined to comment.

The noise action plan, which BAA hopes to publish early next year, will not consider any effects of a third runway, which will not be built before 2015.

Tomorrow hundreds of protesters from across the country will descend on west London to demonstrate against airport expansion.

The campaigners, including more than a dozen opposed to expansion at Glasgow Airport, will put on a traditional Scottish event.

Activists from Plane Stupid will also attend the Ceilidh from 7pm at West Drayton Community Centre, Harmondsworth Road, West Drayton, to protest against a third runway at Heathrow.

Linda McCutcheon, secretary of the No Third Runway Action Group, said: “If the third runway is not dropped, the message is that residents and activists from all over will stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of the threatened communities.”