Representation by Nick Parker
- Date submitted
- 10 September 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
My home has become under the departure flight path within the past 8 years. The approval of an additional runway, to sidestep full plannng and enquiry, will, I have no doubt lead to an increase in aircraft noise, affecting my family’s sleep, and providing further erosion of the quiet English Countryside. There will be an impact on climate change, at a time we are all doing what we can to reduce emissions, why should a profit making foreign owned entity be allowed to do that? It will devalue the value of my home, through noise pollution. There is also no doubt that there is insufficient local transport, move movement = more people = more cars = more pollution more frustration. We should not be under any illusion that there is no existing northern runway currently operating as a 2nd runway in conjunction with the main runway. Gatwick is misleading residents to the existence of a 2nd runway currently its a sham and should be denied. I oppose this Gatwick Airport application for a northern runway because it is a new runway – · Policy has been misinterpreted by the applicant as this is an applicant for a new runway which does not comply with policy, Government’s Aviation Strategy. Gatwick does not have 2 runways that it can operate concurrently today as such it is a new runway being constructed. · Increase in aircraft noise – evidence an additional 101,000 flights a year to a cap of 386,000. · Lack of affordable housing locally to enable workers to walk or cycle to work as the applicant proposes. And lack of amenities. · Low skilled jobs are offered with little job security due to the volatile nature of the airport’s leisure business. · Gatwick sits on a single main road, the M23 which is deemed an unsafe smart road. To add to the huge increase in freight, passengers and workers will cause a significant increase in congestion on residential roads and an inevitable decline in air quality. · The airport sits on the Brighton Main Line, which can’t be expanded. Gatwick seeks to add an unacceptable burden to the line with over 32m extra passengers. · We face a climate emergency, and a new runway would add a significant amount of carbon and greenhouse gases – Evidence CCC (2020) The Sixth Carbon Budget – Methodology Report. Available at: www.theccc.org.uk