The council will call for the Government to ban all night flights at Heathrow in its official response to a consultation, a meeting has heard.

Richmond Council’s special standing committee on Heathrow said no planes should take off or land at the airport between 11pm and 7am.

It will also ask for the authority to be represented when Heathrow monitors two trial periods in which it will use both runways simultaneously, instead of its current practice of one at a time.

Councillors said at a meeting on Tuesday, August 16, they were concerned the three-month tests – the first one starting in November this year and the second next summer during the Olympics – would be the “thin end of the wedge”.

Residents in Richmond would lose the current breaks from aircraft noise they get now, when Heathrow alternates its use of runways.

Children’s parties and film crews working in the borough would be among those who will have problems planning their events.

The Government hoped the measure would reduce the time planes circled before they land.

It has also launched a consultation on night flights between 2012 and 2018.

John Stewart, chairman of campaign group Hacan Clearskies, told the meeting: “I think there’s a danger for us all to think that, after the victory over the third runway and mixed-mode, in which the council and residents played a big role, that we sit back. We think the aviation industry will see this as an opportunity to come back and try to regain some lost ground.”