LADACAN has initiated a legal challenge of the lawfulness of Secretary of State Heidi Alexander’s decision to grant permission for massive further expansion at Luton Airport.
We’ve set up a crowdfunding page to help us meet the legal costs of a Judicial Review process.
Please visit Judicial Review of Luton Airport Expansion Decision and give generously.
A team of National Planning Inspectors examined the application for 6 months and recommended against the proposed expansion of capacity at Luton Airport, saying its environmental harms outweigh its benefits.
The Secretary of State for Transport overruled their recommendation and granted permission for an additional 13 million passengers and 70,000 flights a year, increasing night flights by 70%.
The economics of encouraging more cheap flights make no sense. Aviation’s busiest year in 2019 saw a £30bn balance of trade deficit in tourism, with more money spent abroad than being brought in, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The costs of damage caused by worsening climate change will rub out any benefits from the government’s Green Power Plan in 5 years according to the New Economics Foundation.
Being woken at night by aircraft noise increases the chance of stroke and heart disease according to the World Health Organisation, adding to the NHS burden.
The local transport infrastructure is insufficient to cope with the additional passenger load at Luton Airport according to the planning inspectors, and increased gridlock penalises other local businesses.
Noise blight and worsening transport congestion caused by an expanding Luton Airport would negatively affect economic prosperity in the wider area.
And the people of Luton deserve better than to have all the Town’s economic eggs put into the basket of an unsustainable, noisy and polluting industry. We need a more diversified, future-proof local economy.
Our crowdfunding page is at Judicial Review of Luton Airport Expansion Decision – please forward this link to others concerned about further airport expansion at a time of increasing climate crisis.
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