Representation by Edwin Paice
- Date submitted
- 11 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I oppose this Gatwick Airport application for a northern runway because it is a new runway not a development of an existing runway. Policy has been misinterpreted and misrepresented by the applicant as this is an application 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 on already expanded\enlarged flight path corridors causing increasing noise and disruption to residents over a considerable area. Lack of affordable housing locally to enable workers to walk or cycle to work as the applicant proposes. Plus a lack of amenities Low skilled jobs are offered with little job security due to the volatile nature of the airport’s leisure business. The expansion will create add a huge increase in freight, passengers and workers to the already overstretched local road network and motorway (M23) and will cause a significant increase in congestion and a substantial deterioration in air quality. Gatwick seeks to add an unacceptable burden to the Brighton Main Railway line with over 32m extra passengers. A new runway would add a significant amount of carbon and greenhouse gases at a time when airports and aircraft operators should be seeking to reduce them as set out by the Climate Change Committee (CCC (2020) The Sixth Carbon Budget – Methodology Report. Available at: www.theccc.org.uk)