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5 - Jun - 2018

Senior Ministers Expected to Approve Building of Third Runway at Heathrow

The economic sub-committee, chaired by Theresa May will meet today at Downing Street to endorse a plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

Once the ministers approve the controversial expansion plans, the next step will require Members of Parliament to vote on the issue in the coming weeks.

Despite government approval of the plans, May, is likely to face opposition from Boris Johnson and other Heathrow Critics.

Extend the Runway proposed the lengthening of Heathrow’s Northern runway.  The group said the Department for transport (DfT) “lacks both expertise and attention to detail” and further said the DfT has ignored its proposition. The Evening Standard reported.

In a tweet Extend the Runway said: “People should have zero confidence that the DfT have run a rigorous process on Heathrow's expensive and complex plan.”

According to the Evening Standard, the Aviation Environment Federation said it is “extremely unlikely that the Government will have been able to find solutions to key challenges related to the environmental impacts of expansion”.

The group said: “The Aviation Strategy, which is being taken forward under a separate process to the Heathrow NPS, will set out how the environmental impacts of aviation nationally should be tackled, but will not be consulted upon until later this year with publication of the final strategy not expected until the middle of next year.

“The decision on Heathrow is set to be taken, therefore, in the absence of any policy on how to tackle aviation's carbon emissions, so with no clarity on whether limits on aviation growth will be needed in order to meet climate change obligations.”

By Airport Pickups London