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Thursday, 02 July 2015 09:05

Spelthorne Council welcomes third runway recommendation

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The following press release arrived in LOSRA's inbox on 1st July:

Spelthorne Borough Council has welcomed the Airport Commission’s report published today  which recommends to government that a third runway be built to the north west of Heathrow.

The Commission’s unanimous recommendation recognises that expanded airport capacity is crucial to the UK’s long term prosperity by providing greater airport capacity and international connectivity. 

The report comes with a number of recommended measures to address environmental concerns including noise and air quality and securing a major shift away from private vehicles as means of transport to the airport. The Commission has explained its recommendations would make an expanded Heathrow a better neighbour for local communities than it is today.  

Leader of Spelthorne Council, Cllr Robert Watts said: “This is good news for the local and national economy.  Along with our MP, Kwasi Kwarteng, Spelthorne has been a long standing supporter of the expansion of Heathrow on economic grounds whilst recognising the environmental and transport impacts must also be addressed.  I am pleased the Commission has proposed a series of strong measure to address those environmental and transport concerns.”  

Councillor Colin Davis, Cabinet Member for Economic Development said: “The Commission has clearly undertaken a very thorough assessment and recognised the overwhelming economic case for Heathrow’s expansion.  It will now be important for the government to consider the report quickly so an early decision can be made allowing detailed plans to then be developed.”

LOSRA is well aware that the expansion of Heathrow is a hugely contentious issue which divides opinion amongst our members. Please use the comments facility below to make your views known.

2 comments

  • Comment Link a concerned resident Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:17 posted by a concerned resident

    What we are not told is where the concrete to build this along with HS2 will come from .For ever 30 miles gravel travels the price doubles (Bedford CC) Spelthorne I think will provide its fair share towards this
    "Think about it ?"

  • Comment Link Brian  Catt Wednesday, 08 July 2015 10:34 posted by Brian Catt

    This also brings work in the form of International companies' Euro HQs to our area, or London it self, plus UK Operations and possibly the actual HQ of new international tech businesess. I have worked for a number of both, and came here to work for what was the massive EMI complex at Hayes. Our area has FAR more than any other in the country. Sunbury was never a rural idyl, but it did make a very attractive area near London affordable to people who needed to work for such businesses North of the River - "Not Richmond" or :Not Twickenham" upon Thames, and Definitely not Staines, and provided other work for those already here. Under threat from over population now, as is everywhere. But served and made prosperous by Heathrow. A good thing.

    If people need to live in the country where nothing much happens and don't need the jobs, the choice is clear, sadly. Real England, AKA Dorset et al, beckons. It is possible that the Sith Coast is the new pleasant high tech home for multi generational family shifts, the retired parents go first to check it out, them the kids get jobs and move , etc. BTW. Either in the UK or France. Gatwick, Southampton, Exeter Airports, Nice and Toulouse. etc. People have always moved to where the best jobs, societies, environment/cimate are, while the rest complain about the change where they are. Our developments seem inevitable as a lot of money is hungry to make more money on them and chasing those eminently persuadable officials councillors who decide upon it after thrice denying it.. SCC are hell bent on dumping as much of their unwanted devlopments in Spelthorne to keep real Surrey pleasant, and SBC will leave loopholes and fail to protect us. London Irish will probably tip us over the edge when its deluded people move in to finally trash the environment they think they are moving into by being in it. So for those already here its not a good thing, as it is leading to overdevelopment. Gatwick really needs this traffic first to grow its regional development to our level, them maybe ANO, so LOndon is surrounded by such hubs.

    But many of us are old and at the end of our lives, and the newbies won't miss what they never had from the closed windows of their oversized cars, isloated from the community as so many now seem to be in their "individualism" as the Pope called it.. They probably won't join LOSRA or anything else, either. A bad thing.

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