Representation by Simon Charles Hardy
- Date submitted
- 10 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This plan will hugely affect my day-to-day life (and the lives of my fellow villagers and everyone living around Gatwick), and in a fundamentally negative way. No proper consideration seems to have been given as to how all these new passengers will get to Gatwick. Without a huge investment in infrastructure, the limited road and rail access will be positively overrun. Heathrow has multiple motorway links, as well as well-developed tube and rail access. Gatwick has one motorway (often bypassed by people driving through our village already) and a poor rail link. Having twice as many people trying to access the airport will completely clog up all the roads for miles around. In addition, getting to Gatwick, being due south of London, is far more problematic for nearly everyone in the country compared to Heathrow. Secondly, Gatwick is built on a flood plain. We already suffer from run-off flooding the River Mole in our village (and many others), and the huge increase in new building would greatly exacerbate the problem. Gatwick seems to think that these are ‘not our problem’ and proffer nothing but platitudes to resolve them. And that is before even considering the increased noise, and carbon emissions, we would all have to live with. All-in-all, this seems to be a selfish money-grabbing opportunity being proposed with little thought as to its affect on others, and should be refused.