Representation by Patrick David Cahill
- Date submitted
- 24 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
One runway at Gatwick is sufficient Infrastructure could not cope with more road and rail traffic Noise level already unbearable - more would be a disaster A new runway would add to the existing climate emergency Insufficient housing and amenities 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