Rival Heathrow expansion options buoyed by third runway ruling
Heathrow Hub, supported by hedge fund manager Anthony Clake, and a proposal by billionaire Surinder Arora, say they are back in play
16 December 2020 • 4:19pm
Lifting the legal ban on Heathrow’s third runway has opened the door to rival schemes to expand London s main airport.
A proposal backed by a prominent hedge fund manager, and another by hotel tycoon Surinder Arora, laid claim to being cheaper as well as meeting the UK s climate change obligations.
Supreme Court judges overturned March s Court of Appeal decision to block the third runway on environmental grounds on Wednesday.
Councils opposed to Heathrow’s expansion say today’s Supreme Court ruling changes nothing and called on the airport to abandon its bid for a third runway. A group of local councils – Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond upon Thames, Hammersmith and Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead together with the Mayor of London and Greenpeace – had challenged the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) alongside environmental groups Plan B and Friends of the Earth. However, on Wednesday (Dec 16), the Supreme Court agreed with Heathrow Airport Limited that the former Secretary of State acted lawfully when considering the impact of the Paris Agreement. The ruling confirmed that the airport would be bound to comply with the UK’s revised carbon targets when, and if, it seeks to obtain planning permission for a third runway.
Councils opposed to Heathrow’s expansion say today’s Supreme Court ruling changes nothing and called on the airport to abandon its bid for a third runway. A group of local councils – Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond upon Thames, Hammersmith and Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead together with the Mayor of London and Greenpeace – had challenged the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) alongside environmental groups Plan B and Friends of the Earth. However, on Wednesday (Dec 16), the Supreme Court agreed with Heathrow Airport Limited that the former Secretary of State acted lawfully when considering the impact of the Paris Agreement. The ruling confirmed that the airport would be bound to comply with the UK’s revised carbon targets when, and if, it seeks to obtain planning permission for a third runway.
Councils opposed to Heathrow’s expansion say today’s Supreme Court ruling changes nothing and called on the airport to abandon its bid for a third runway. A group of local councils – Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond upon Thames, Hammersmith and Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead together with the Mayor of London and Greenpeace – had challenged the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) alongside environmental groups Plan B and Friends of the Earth. However, on Wednesday (Dec 16), the Supreme Court agreed with Heathrow Airport Limited that the former Secretary of State acted lawfully when considering the impact of the Paris Agreement. The ruling confirmed that the airport would be bound to comply with the UK’s revised carbon targets when, and if, it seeks to obtain planning permission for a third runway.
Workers Revolutionary Party
Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) strikers on the Bath Road picket line on the edge of Heathrow Airport yesterday morning
FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British Airways workers who are also striking later this month.
Speaking at a rally at Bedfont Football Ground at the beginning of yesterday’s strike, Raj Aran, Unite member, said: ‘We should all be united. The HAL and BA strike have got similar rhetoric – fire and rehire.
‘The BA workers have got nine days of strike action from Christmas Day, we have got two more days of strike on Thursday and Friday this week.