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Old June 14th, 2004, 09:39 PM
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June 12, 2004

Airports' opponents stall plans on runway expansion
By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...142513,00.html

OPPONENTS of new runways at Stansted and Heathrow won permission
yesterday for a judicial review of the Government's expansion plans.
The High Court will hear evidence that the aviation White Paper,
published in December, was fundamentally flawed and broke the
Government's rules on conducting consultations.



The action, mounted by community groups from Stansted, Heathrow and
Luton and the London boroughs of Hillingdon and Wandsworth, could
force the Government to repeat the whole consultation process. The
resulting delay in constructing new runways would leave airports in
the South East unable to accommodate growing demand for flights.

Carol Barbone, director of Stop Stansted Expansion, said: "We are
delighted that the High Court has agreed with us that the Government
has a case to answer in relation to the many flaws and inconsistencies
in the Air Transport White Paper. We are determined to demonstrate to
the satisfaction of the court that no government should be allowed to
publish a White Paper which disregards the results of its own
consultation and flouts the evidence."

If successful, it will be the second time that the group has thwarted
the Government's airport expansion plans. In November 2002, the group
won a High Court ruling forcing the Government to recommence its
consultation, resulting in an eight-month delay in the publication of
the White Paper.

The latest challenge hinges on the groups' claims that the White Paper
ignores the absence of a commercial justification for a second
Stansted runway. The consultation documents made it clear that
commercial viability was a "hurdle which must be passed for new and
existing airport sites".

The groups claim that a second ruway at Stansted could be commercially
viable only if it were cross-subsidised by profits from Heathrow and
Gatwick. No date has yet been set for the judicial review.
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June 12, 2004

Airports' opponents stall plans on runway expansion
By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...142513,00.html

OPPONENTS of new runways at Stansted and Heathrow won permission
yesterday for a judicial review of the Government's expansion plans.
The High Court will hear evidence that the aviation White Paper,
published in December, was fundamentally flawed and broke the
Government's rules on conducting consultations.


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Good post and relevant to both ng's seeing both EDI and GLA have schedules
to STN & LHR.

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