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Airports' opponents stall plans on runway expansion
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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Airports' opponents stall plans on runway expansion
"S.Byers" wrote in message om... 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. snipped Good post and relevant to both ng's seeing both EDI and GLA have schedules to STN & LHR. BLIMPS |
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