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S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2025 No. 1013
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Newtown)
Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 11th September 2025
Coming into force - - 13th September 2025
The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict the flying of unmanned
aircraft in the area specified in regulation 3(1) by reason of the intending gathering of a large
number of persons in the vicinity of Newtown, Powys.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(a).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Newtown)
Regulations 2025 and they come into force on 13th September 2025.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 3(1) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time(b).
Restricted airspace
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), beginning with 0800 hours and ending with 1700 hours on
13th September 2025 no unmanned aircraft is to fly below 2,000 feet above mean sea level within
the area bounded by a circle having a radius of 0.5 nautical mile which is centred at 523056N
0031854W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any unmanned aircraft flying in accordance with a
permission issued by the Dyfed-Powys Police Service.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Karen L Michaels
Grade 7
11th September 2025 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2016/765, amended by S.I. 2024/990; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
(b) Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is one hour behind British Summer Time (BST).EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose restrictions on the flying of unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of the
Newtown, Powys where the gathering of a large number of persons is due to take place on 13
September 2025. At the request of the Dyfed-Powys Police Service, the Civil Aviation Authority
and the Department for Transport agree that the flying of unmanned aircraft should be restricted in
the vicinity for reasons of public safety and security.
The times mentioned in regulation 3(1) are Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is one hour
behind British Summer Time (BST).
In relation to the permission mentioned in regulation 3(2), the Dyfed-Powys Police Service may
be contacted as notified.
Full details of this Statutory Instrument will be promulgated by Notice to Aviation (NOTAM).
The point of contact in the Civil Aviation Authority is Mr David Ridley, Airspace Regulator,
Safety and Airspace Regulation Group, on telephone number 03301 382471.
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