The government indicated its support for expanding UK airports. But what are the following steps for the largest two, GATWICK and Heathrow in London?
What does Gatwick want to do?
The airport expansion plan will include 2.2 billion pounds, redeveloping the current emergency runway and transporting it a little away from the only main runway – meeting the rules of aviation safety to allow two routinely orbiting orbits at the same time. The redesign of the airport will also include, upgrading and extending its stations and gates.
How many flights can work?
Jets can take off in the short term of the type that Easyjet uses and most of the Gatwick airlines on the second runway-which allows about 389,000 flights annually, or about 100,000 flights at the present time. The annual passenger number can increase from about 45 million to 80 million by the late thirties. Gatwick said he was ready to start construction this year and be a listed used by the end of the contract.
So what has changed today?
The Minister of Transport, Heidi Alexander, suggested that she supports the scheme – but also pushed back at the deadline for granting an approval for development for another eight months. Refusal planning inspectors – and suggested that the scheme would plan only if Gatwick agrees to meet a set of detailed planning conditions for noise and surface transportation to the airport.
What kind of planning conditions should you meet?
For example, the airport will be prevented from using each of the corridors together if it violates the noise limits, which will be independently reviewed; Or if this does not guarantee that at least 54 % of flights to the airport is by public transport – partially by reducing any parking lots.
Will meet these rules clear?
It is not yet clear. The opponents have argued that expansion inevitably causes additional pollution and pressure on local transport and facilities that have not been met by Gatwick’s relief plans. In front of the airport until April 24 to respond officially.
What about Heathrow?
The largest airport in London is already starting in some changes at its stations and airport to allow it to fly more than people – it is likely to be more than 84 % of nearly 84 million who have passed in 2024. But it is important in a place, it cannot put more planes in the sky without a third runway, which followed it intermittently for decades.
What are her next steps?
The Heathrow runway was already dedicated to the national policy statement that was voted in law in 2018. However, the long process of implementing detailed planning (the type that Gatwick hoped to finally sign it on Thursday by Alexander), with the delay of the plan by legal challenges and then Covid. Heathrow will provide government plans in the summer that are still following the same physical design – but now it wants more guarantees before applying for an approval for development.
What does Heathrow want?
Regardless of solid ministerial support, he wants to see a clinical reshaping before adding more airport. It also wants the Civil Aviation Authority to change the way it is organized – in essence, to allow it to impose more airlines over a longer period of time to pay the investment. He also wishes to see promises of the enactment planning reforms, to avoid further delay through judicial reviews.
So when will there be a third runway and what does that mean?
At the earliest time, 2035 – allowing about 240,000 other flights per year, with a huge carbon emissions leap, and other densely populated areas in London under new flight paths.
Are any other London airports trying to expand?
Yes – all of them, more or less. Stanste and city airports with permission to redevelop stations and operate more flights, while Luton is waiting for another decision in April from Alexander when a development approval order was given, after submitting a full planning request for 18 million passengers annually.
