Representation by DGoddard
- Date submitted
- 18 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 – • Increase in aircraft noise – evidence is that an additional 101,000 flights a year to a cap of 386,000 will be flown. • Policy has been misinterpreted by the applicant as this is an application for a new runway and as such does not comply with policy, or the Government’s Aviation Strategy. Gatwick does not have 2 runways that it can operate concurrently today and as such it is a new runway being constructed. • Gatwick sits on a single main road, the M23 which is deemed an unsafe smart road and is unable to take the current volume of traffic going to and from Gatwick. The huge increase in freight, passengers and workers will cause a significant increase in congestion on the M23 and related routes to/from the airport including spillover into residential roads. This will lead to an inevitable decline in air quality. • The airport sits on the Brighton Main Line, which can’t be expanded. The performance of this line is lamentable and there is absolutely no way it will cope 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