Representation by Philip Antony Streeter
- Date submitted
- 5 June 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This proposed expansion of Luton airport by Luton Council is a development that will cause untold damage to the environment and ruin the quality of life to the residents of the town. The airport is situated next to residential roads, business's, schools and parks and countryside used by the residents and others in Herts & Beds. An example is Wigmore Valley Park, open land used by the people of Luton. It provides a pollution and noise barrier between the airport and the residents. Destruction of this facility for not only Luton but the neighbouring villages and towns, will be a total disaster and have a detrimental affect on the environment of this locality. The congestion on the roads around the airport is already a problem for the town and expansion can only make this worse. Proposals the council have put forward regarding traffic routes immediately around the airport are quite frankly ludicrous and will only add to the congestion problems that currently exist, not solve them. Increased pollution and noise caused by these changes is not what the people of the town need. A situation that the council do not seem to recognise or take into account. We hear weekly in the media of the environmental problems we already have in this country. The expansion of Luton Airport, doubling its passengers to 30 million + is not tackling the Climate & Wildlife emergency we face. Increased flying can only exacerbate climate change. I, like many of the residents in this part of Luton are somewhat bewildered that the Council can put forward these proposals and grant planning permission for anything the airport want to do. Surely a conflict of interest exists in this business framework. Many of us feel that our concerns over these expansion plans are just ignored. These then are a few of the main issues that are of my main concerns. Other topics will no doubt arise, as the Council see fit to inform us. Transparency is however not part of their ethos.