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Airport Expansion

This section describes the Council's stance to airport expansion and its response to Government plans to add extra runways at Gatwick airport.

THE Borough Council is opposed to Government proposals to expand Gatwick to a two or three runway airport.

Currently the airport serves between 30-35 million passengers a year. If it became a two runway airport it would have capacity to serve more than 80 million passengers annually.

The Government announced proposals to expand Gatwick as one of four options in a large scale public consultation in 2002.

The other options were to expand Heathrow, Stansted and to create a new airport in the Kent estuary.

The Borough Council teamed up with other local authorities, local MPs and thousands of campaigners to oppose the Gatwick proposals.

We submitted our formal response to the Government consultation in June 2003, and were successful in persuading the Government that Gatwick should not be expanded to a two runway airport.

It is this Council's view that the impact would be devastating in terms of the noise and pollution, environmental, traffic and urbanisation.

The Government also considered plans to expand Redhill Aerodrome. The Borough Council also submitted a formal response opposing the expansion of Redhill Aerodrome, which was also successful.

You can read the Council's official response to the Government consultation on this website. Please note you will need Adobe Acrobat to read the printer friendly pdf files. 

Last updated: 19-12-2005

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council
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Castlefield Road
Reigate
RH2 0SH
01737 276000

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