Your Action is Needed
CAGNE is your umbrella aviation community and environment group for Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, who seeks to be fair to all. We ask you to act now –
Donate to the team of qualified experts that will challenge Gatwick Airport experts like never before to oppose or defend a decision on a new runway at Gatwick by the Secretary of State on 27th February 2025 as PINS sends their recommendation on 27th November. Donate via www.cagne.org
Write in your own words the reasons you wish the Secretary of State for Transport Rt Hon Louise Haigh MP to oppose – louise.haign.mp@parlimanet.uk – and here are some topics you might choose:
- I oppose this Gatwick Airport application for a northern runway because it is a new runway
- 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 386,000 flights a year going from 46.6m passengers to 80m with no cap
- Further decline in air quality directly from the airfield and transport
- Lack of affordable housing locally to enable workers to walk or cycle to work as the applicant proposes and general 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 (1 – 1 1/2m tonnes a year) and greenhouse gases – Evidence CCC (2020) The Sixth Carbon Budget – Methodology Report. Available at: www.theccc.org.uk
Thank you.
CAGNE Committee