Representation by Valerie Barbara Cahill
- Date submitted
- 24 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
[Redacted] is already inconvenienced by noise from existing runway usage, expanding to two runways would increase the aircraft traffic noise extensively. The flight path is already full to capacity how would this cope with the increased flights The infrastructure - roads and rail link would not cope with the additional arrivals and departures at the airport. Housing would not cope with the additional staffing requirements at Gatwick, neither would schools, doctors, etc as current be able to cope with the influx of people required to operate the increased facilities at Gatwick Consideration should also be given to the additional amount of carbon and greenhouse gases 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