Lusa questioned the councils of the four municipalities that signed protocols with the Environmental Fund, which will provide funding to mitigate the noise impact from the country’s largest airport.
All amounts added up, the total value is €5,002,190: €2,798,730 for Lisbon; €1,324,730 for Loures; €560,000 for Vila Franca de Xira and €318,730 for Almada.
The same amounts will be replicated in 2027, given that the protocols now signed are valid for two years, a source from the Ministry of Environment and Energy told Lusa.
The Less Noise Programme, approved almost a year ago on 16 March 2025, should have gone ahead in September, but the protocols for its implementation were only formalised last Thursday.
In response to Lusa, the Lisbon City Council indicated that it will receive €2,798,730 in 2026, plus the “reprogramming” of the same amount, which was originally planned for 2025 but, “due to various circumstances, was not possible to execute” and will now be moved to 2027.
In other words, Lisbon will have a total of more than five million euros (5,597,460) for the two years of support provided for in the Less Noise Programme, which, as stated in Council of Ministers Resolution No. 58/2025, will finance interventions in “facades, windows, window frames and shutter boxes of residential buildings that do not meet acoustic requirements” and “are located in areas exposed to noise levels” that exceed the limits established by law.
Specifically, the capital’s local authority explains that the interventions will cover the parishes of Alvalade, Avenidas Novas, Alcântara, Campo de Ourique, Campolide, Estrela, Lumiar, Santa Clara and São Domingos de Benfica.
According to information provided to Lusa by the Loures Municipal Council, support to alleviate airport noise in this municipality could cover 48,761 permanent dwellings.
Loures will receive €1,324,730, which will be used by the end of the year to “replace windows, shutter boxes and ventilation grilles in homes located in the most exposed areas”, namely in the parishes of Camarate, Unhos and Apelação; Moscavide and Portela; Sacavém and Prior Velho; and Santa Iria de Azóia, São João da Talha and Bobadela.
One day after the Government signed the protocols with the local authorities concerned, the Vila Franca de Xira City Council issued a statement explaining that the municipality will receive €560,000 to “finance improvements aimed at enhancing acoustic comfort on the façades, windows, window frames and shutter boxes in residential buildings in affected areas of the Union of Parishes of Alverca do Ribatejo and Sobralinho, the Union of Parishes of Póvoa de Santa Iria and Forte da Casa, the Parish of Vialonga and the Parish of Vila Franca de Xira”.
Almada is also one of the municipalities covered by the Less Noise Programme.
According to the signed protocol, sent to Lusa by the municipality, €318,730 will be invested by the end of 2026 in “improvement interventions on facades, window frames, windows and shutter boxes in residential buildings” located in a “corridor encompassing parts of the Unions of Parishes of Almada, Cova da Piedade, Cacilhas and Pragal; Caparica and Trafaria; and Charneca and Sobreda, as well as the Parish Council of Costa de Caparica.”
According to the Less Noise Program, priority should be given to investment in private residences intended for permanent habitation and located in areas with higher noise levels, excluding commercial establishments from support.