LADACAN is a community group consisting of unpaid volunteers fighting to prevent further massive expansion of Luton Airport in order to protect quality of life for people already badly affected by its aircraft noise and overflights both day and night, by the overcrowded road and rail services, and the rat-running and fly parking.
We believe the government is gambling with all our futures by granting airport after airport permission to expand, with the additional carbon emissions from each expansion proposal assessed in isolation and no overall carbon budget for aviation.
No credible pathways have yet been demonstrated to meet UK net zero commitments. Each month brings new evidence of worsening climate change. Yet the government is ignoring best advice from the UN, the Climate Change Committee and the Environmental Audit Committee to stop airport expansion.
We used crowdfunding to help fund the significant legal costs of this action. This attracted contributions from people all over the country who care about the costs and effects of increased aviation and the worsening crisis caused by climate change.
The support was terrific, and without it the legal costs could not have been met. THANK YOU to everyone who donated to enable our challenge to go ahead. Even though we ultimately lost, each time people stand up to development which harms the environment and quality of life it’s a blow against climate injustice .