Representation by Martin Paul Fitzgerald
- Date submitted
- 9 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Gatwick proposal will result in: - 1. 70% Increase in Passenger numbers 2. 37% Increase in Aircraft movements over our heads, more noise pollution, more visual pollution 3. CO2 emissions up over 50%; Gatwick to generate 5.5% of all UK CO2 emissions by 2038! 4. Road and rail congestion 5. House price devaluation …with little additional employment opportunities in this area. Other published comments: - Gatwick’s proposals “fly in the face of the climate emergency”. When the first consultation opened in 2022, a calculation from the Green Party estimated that the plans could result in an extra 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 being emitted each year, completely incompatible with the UK’s climate targets. Helen Coffey, the Independent’s travel editor, said: “At a time when we need to drastically slash carbon emissions to halt further warming of our planet, proposing to increase flights, and therefore emissions, by 37 per cent seems wildly out of keeping with the UK’s CO2 reduction targets.”