Heathrow is the wrong airport in the wrong place. It needs to be phased out and shut down and it needs a government with guts and intelligence to face up to this truth.
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Nicola Sacks
10 years ago
Currently when the flight path runs over my house in West Ealing, I get low-flying planes interrupting my TV reception and causing my windows to shake every minute. I can put up with this inconvenience but DO NOT want this happening all day every day. I don't understand why you don't expand Gatwick- there are less residential areas to disturb and far more land to build onto without knocking down entire villages as is planned for the Heathrow expansion. Expand Gatwick!! It makes FAR more sense!
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Fiona Sacks
10 years ago
A 3rd runway at Heathrow will just add to the already chronic levels of congestion, noise and pollution in West London and has serious safety/security implications. It makes no sense and will not deliver the economic benefits claimed. It is simply not necessary. The majority of people in the UK want action on climate change and pollution. Surely now is the time to lead by example and say no!
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Derek Pratt
10 years ago
noise, road congestion, pollution - you name it !
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Janet Sacks
10 years ago
a 3rd runway will result in an increase of noise, pollution, traffic, and get rid of a huge amount of housing. Is a third runway or even a hub airport necessary?
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Mrs M.D. Butcher
10 years ago
The noise from planes travelling overhead at my bedtime causes me great annoyance. A third runway would only aggravate this problem !
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Don't make it worse than it already is
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john eadie
10 years ago
There has been an increase in flights over my area already
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JONATHAN COSSERAT
10 years ago
It is simply astounding to believe that increasing Heathrow can be justified when there is a perfectly good airport in Gatwick with superb links into London, crying out for expansion and development.
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Peter Lockett
10 years ago
The UK economy aleady suffers from a grotesque geographical distortion with London & the South East dominating employment and wealth production to the detriment of the rest of the UK (and on the availability of housing in London). Yet the case for expanding Heathrow depends of actually increasing economic activity in London and around Heathrow with more damage to the surrounding enviroment (noise, pollution, congestion). It would make a great deal more sense to share the economic benefits of a major international airport by expanding or building an airport to the north of Heathrow which would be consistant with the "Northern Powerhouse" policies.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
My life is blighted by the current noise levels as it is. Any more would quite simply be torture.
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Louise McDonagh
10 years ago
A third runway at Heathrow cannot be justified or sustained. Not only will many conservation areas be wiped out by this proposition, but the traffic in and around Heathrow/M25 and surrounding areas will be even further congested - they are already often driven to a standstill around the Hampton Court area by the knock-on effects of Heathrow-generated traffic. Far better to expand one or more northern airports to support the government's strategic 'northern powerh-house' and support this expansion with an ingegrated HS3 railway system. This will rebalance the congested, high traffic, high revenue-generating south with the currently less productive but more space-rich north.
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Jeanna Wheeler
10 years ago
The air quality around Heathrow already breaks European air quality standards
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Felicity leicester
10 years ago
We moved from richmond to long ditton to escape the noise , get quality of life back and less pollution, but now you will wreck yet another enormous area with noise, multi thousands of people affected unnecessarily. NO NO NO!
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Joanne Tiffany
10 years ago
We don't have enough homes in Britain for British Born and yet they want to knock down decent homes for a run way that's just idiotic!! No 3rd Runway
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Yes to 3rd runway
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Carolyn Hodge
10 years ago
There's already to much aircraft noise & pollution where I live. We are on the direct flight path West bound and are constantly bombarded with aircraft noise during the day & late at night when taking off in this direction. NO MORE WANTED!
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Laiqa Shah
10 years ago
No to Herhrow expansion - we have to suffer with enough air plain noise and air and sound pollution as it is ..
Heathrow is the wrong airport in the wrong place. It needs to be phased out and shut down and it needs a government with guts and intelligence to face up to this truth.
Currently when the flight path runs over my house in West Ealing, I get low-flying planes interrupting my TV reception and causing my windows to shake every minute. I can put up with this inconvenience but DO NOT want this happening all day every day. I don't understand why you don't expand Gatwick- there are less residential areas to disturb and far more land to build onto without knocking down entire villages as is planned for the Heathrow expansion. Expand Gatwick!! It makes FAR more sense!
A 3rd runway at Heathrow will just add to the already chronic levels of congestion, noise and pollution in West London and has serious safety/security implications. It makes no sense and will not deliver the economic benefits claimed. It is simply not necessary. The majority of people in the UK want action on climate change and pollution. Surely now is the time to lead by example and say no!
noise, road congestion, pollution - you name it !
a 3rd runway will result in an increase of noise, pollution, traffic, and get rid of a huge amount of housing. Is a third runway or even a hub airport necessary?
The noise from planes travelling overhead at my bedtime causes me great annoyance. A third runway would only aggravate this problem !
Don't make it worse than it already is
There has been an increase in flights over my area already
It is simply astounding to believe that increasing Heathrow can be justified when there is a perfectly good airport in Gatwick with superb links into London, crying out for expansion and development.
The UK economy aleady suffers from a grotesque geographical distortion with London & the South East dominating employment and wealth production to the detriment of the rest of the UK (and on the availability of housing in London). Yet the case for expanding Heathrow depends of actually increasing economic activity in London and around Heathrow with more damage to the surrounding enviroment (noise, pollution, congestion). It would make a great deal more sense to share the economic benefits of a major international airport by expanding or building an airport to the north of Heathrow which would be consistant with the "Northern Powerhouse" policies.
My life is blighted by the current noise levels as it is. Any more would quite simply be torture.
A third runway at Heathrow cannot be justified or sustained. Not only will many conservation areas be wiped out by this proposition, but the traffic in and around Heathrow/M25 and surrounding areas will be even further congested - they are already often driven to a standstill around the Hampton Court area by the knock-on effects of Heathrow-generated traffic. Far better to expand one or more northern airports to support the government's strategic 'northern powerh-house' and support this expansion with an ingegrated HS3 railway system. This will rebalance the congested, high traffic, high revenue-generating south with the currently less productive but more space-rich north.
The air quality around Heathrow already breaks European air quality standards
We moved from richmond to long ditton to escape the noise , get quality of life back and less pollution, but now you will wreck yet another enormous area with noise, multi thousands of people affected unnecessarily. NO NO NO!
We don't have enough homes in Britain for British Born and yet they want to knock down decent homes for a run way that's just idiotic!! No 3rd Runway
Yes to 3rd runway
There's already to much aircraft noise & pollution where I live. We are on the direct flight path West bound and are constantly bombarded with aircraft noise during the day & late at night when taking off in this direction. NO MORE WANTED!
No to Herhrow expansion - we have to suffer with enough air plain noise and air and sound pollution as it is ..
no runway
Distribute air transport around the country