The official appeal response is here:
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2026/1040
The CAGNE statement concerning the High Court Appeal against the Gatwick Airport Northern Runway project follows:
Residents should be immensely proud of what they have achieved in holding Gatwick Airport’s shareholders to account. This proposed new runway will come at a significant cost, to both the taxpayer and the planet.
Today’s Court of Appeal ruling is a deeply disappointing reflection of recent changes to the legal process, rather than of the strength or commitment of our legal team. We firmly believed the judges understood the serious environmental impacts at stake, including the lack of sufficient sewerage treatment capacity to support an additional runway at this leisure airport.
The legal process provides only specific routes for challenging a government’s error in judgement. As a result, we were unable to resubmit all the grounds that led the Planning Inspectorates to recommend refusal of this new runway application through the planning Development Consent Order.
We will now use the remaining funds raised to continue holding Gatwick to account. Our focus will turn to the proposed new terminal, the decline in air quality, and the airspace changes that were not permitted to be considered as part of this planning application.
This is a deeply disappointing reflection of a government that is failing to take a balanced approach to airport expansion, particularly where an airport such as Gatwick seeks to export sterling from the UK economy while imposing significant costs on local authorities, communities and the environment.