South East England Regional Assembly

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South East England Regional Assembly
Mike Gwilliam Director of Planning and
Transport The Future of Air Transport
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The Future of Air Transport

• Recognises economic importance and need to
  provide enough capacity
• Accepts desire to travel more further
• Wants to reduce impacts
• Ensures pays external costs over time
• Action on mitigation Global/European/National

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South East England

• Urgent need for additional runway capacity in SE
• No strong case for 2nd international hub
  alongside Heathrow
• Priority to make best use of existing runways
  (inc. remaining capacity at Stansted Luton)
• Provision should be made for 2 new runways in SE
  by 2030
• 1st new runway should be at Stansted delivered
  asap (2011 or 2012)

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South East England

• Further development of Heathrow supported
• further new runway additional terminal capacity
  delivered asap (2015-2020)
• After new runway at Stansted
• But only if stringent environmental limits met
• Urgent programme of work to be started to examine
  this issue how to make best use of existing
  airport

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South East England

• Govt. will not seek to overturn agreement
  preventing 2nd runway at Gatwick before 2019
• Land for wide-spaced runway at Gatwick to be
  safeguarded
• in case conditions for 3rd Heathrow runway cannot
  be met
• Because strong case on its own merits (?)

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South East England

• 2 or 3 additional runways at Stansted not
  supported
• 2 new runways at Gatwick not supported
• 2nd runway at Luton not supported
• New airport at Cliffe not supported

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The Assemblys position/ Government response

• Plan for lower forecasts X
• Strongly promote regional airports ?
• Pay full external costs asap X
• Better mitigation/compensation measures ?
• Accept some increase in SE airport capacity ?
• One runway now/review need for second later X

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The Assemblys position

• Yes to Stansted ?
• No to Heathrow X
• No to Cliffe ?
• Safeguard Gatwick option ?
• Maintain Gatwick agreement ?
• Safeguard Gatwick close parallel X
• No Second Hub ?
• Surface access provision X

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Heathrow

• Already planned to grow to 90 million ppa
• Most congested/polluted area of transport system
• Low unemployment, housing shortages, economic
  hothouse
• Regional strategy emphasises Thames Gateway/Coast
• Most negative imports (RTym)

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Heathrow

• Noise Impact 195,000 2000
• 272,000 2030 (TRL)
• Air Quality 5,000 homes above EU limit
• M4 tunnels/air movement limit
• (DfT documents)

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Gatwick

• Planned growth to 40 mppa
• Wide-spread runway increases impact
• Some traffic congestion
• More negative than close parallel option (RTym)
• Noise Impacts 3,300 2000
• 15,500 2030 (TRL)
• Air Quality 100 homes (DfT)

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Summary

• Regional Planning Committee recommendations
• White Paper unsustainable
• Heathrow emphasis wrong
• Gatwick further studies/in preference
• Clear steer for South East Plan

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Summary

• Other Regions
• Inter-Regional Forum opposition to Heathrow
• London Assembly/ALG strongly opposed
• Other Views
• Representations opposing RPC position re Gatwick