Representation by Robin M K Daly
- Date submitted
- 26 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Surrey is already blighted by air travel noise which, apart from the relief of the pandemic period, has increased steadily. This scheme is a backdoor way of doubling passenger numbers without the requirement to invest in the extremely overburdened services in the area in the way that is being required for the now stalled Heathrow expansion. There is not sufficient road or rail capacity to adequately meet the kind of projected figures of this scheme. As decarbonisation of air travel is so underdeveloped, the increase in air traffic is unacceptable at a time when we should be reducing emissions, and of course every extra plane brings a huge raft of emissions from other forms of transport servicing and populating it. It would seem that the aim is to build a valuable asset at a comparatively low cost, a scheme that would favour investors and foreign owners over and above the local area. Its aim to process the equivalent of Heathrow but with just two terminals (one in decay) clearly means that further development will be the next request, to increase terminal capacity. It's all about profit, not people.