Heathrow Airport's £49bn third runway plan chosen by government Heathrow's £49bn plan for a third runway has been chosen as the plan to expand the airport, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced.

Who needs a 300 acre Countryside Park when you can have a 3rd runway instead...

#HarmondsworthMoor
#3rdRunway

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This is extremely bad news, given the damage it will do to the established park, hosting lakes, rivers, woodland plantatiin and acres of wildflower meadow.

Air travel is here to stay.

We of course must tackle noise and environmental impacts, but while we’ve been debating for decades on a #Heathrow #3rdRunway, dozens have been built globally.

To safeguard jobs and Britain's leading role in aviation, we need to stop the dithering.

HS2 was doomed to be a mess before it began, say insiders

Interesting article on why HS2 has been such a catastrophic failure with cost breaches and overruns.
The same would happen with a #3rdrunway at Heathrow. The diverting of watercourses, altering M25 and appalling environmental effects would add to costs and delays
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Oxford Street: Pedestrianisation consultation launched Sir Sadiq Khan hopes pedestrianising Oxford Street will increase visitor numbers and create jobs.

Definitely #HeidiAlexander could put the #3rdRunway #Heathrow here @london.gov.uk

Londoners asked again for views on Oxford Street www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Heathrow #3rdRunway would drive #economic growth, boost #business and ensure our nation remains a global leader in air travel, which no doubt is here to stay.

Thousands of Slough households depend on it but aviation must be more environmentally friendly.
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#3rdRunway at #Heathrow will unlock #growth, boost business #investment and exports, and enhance #connectivity.

Air travel is here to stay, but it must become more environmentally friendly, and support local households and #jobs in places like #Slough.
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Ill be dead by the time #3rdRunway opens. Thank God.

We will fight against #HeathrowAirport #3rdRunway by any means necessary. @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social The noise, the health effects. OMD \green/ fuel.

#Heathrow #3rdRunway #RachelReeves

This is why Labour’s talk of “getting the economy growing” is merely tinkering at the edges and we all know it. There’s permanently an elephant in the room. #RachelReeves #r4today #Heathrow #3rdRunway

#Heathrow #3rdRunway #RachelReeves

Maybe so, but they are nonetheless serial #ClimateBacksliders and really do need close scrutiny. #Heathrow #3rdRunway, #GasBoilers, #FutureHomesStandards, new roads... we're losing count!