The community engagement team from Heathrow have shared a statement on the Government’s support on the Third Runway.
Heathrow Airport has described expanding the airport as being the largest privately-funded transport infrastructure project in Europe and an opportunity to stimulate significant growth during construction as well as boosting jobs, trade, tourism and investment for the local areas and every region and nation in the UK once complete. The airport has set a target of gaining changes to regulations and planning reform so that it can secure planning permission before the end of this Parliament.
They will begin a programme of stakeholder engagement with local communities and authorities around Heathrow. We have been actively engaging with Heathrow Airport over the last two years to ensure we have strong working relationship ready for the Third Runway announcement.
There needs to be scrutiny of their plans including disruption to the local community, compensation for impacts, changes to carbon, noise and air quality.