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The Campaign Community

The following list is by no means complete - there are many groups and individuals resisting airport expansion in the UK.  Contact us to find out about active groups in your area.

Some of the airport campaign websites are excellent sources of technical information as well as providing local news on airport expansion plans and campaign actions.

Local UK airport groups include:

London Airports:
 
Heathrow:
HACAN Clear Skies 
NoTRAG - (No Third Runway Action Group) - Heathrow 
2M - 2 million voices against Heathrow expansion (Wandsworth) 
Stop Heathrow Expansion
Richmond Heathrow Campaign 
Chiswick Residents Against the Spread of Heathrow  (CrashW4.org)
 
Stansted:
Stop Stansted Expansion 
CO2 group - Councils Opposing Second Runway at Stansted
 
Gatwick:
Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign 
Gatwick Can Be Quieter
 
Luton:
Luton and District Association for the Control of Airport Noise
 
London City:
Fight the Flights website and Fight the flights blogspot
 
Southend:
 
Manston (Kent International)
 
 
Boris Island - the Estuary Airport - plan

 
 
Other airports:
 
Belfast City (George Best)
Belfast City Airport Watch
 
Biggin Hill:
Flight Path (Biggin Hill)
 
Birmingham:
Birmingham Anti-Noise Group 
Birmingham Friends of the Earth - anti runway campaign
Flyagra
 
Bristol:
Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Coalition 
 
 
Carlisle
South Lakeland Action on Climate Change (SLACC)
 
 
East Midlands:
DEMAND East Midlands Airport is Now Designated 
 
 
Edinburgh:
AirportWatch Scotland
 
 
Exeter:
Stop the Expansion of Exeter Airport  (SEEA)
and   SEEA
 
 
Glasgow:
AirportWatch Scotland
 
 
Gloucester:
CASE - Concerned residents against Staverton expansion
 
 
Leeds Bradford:
Leeds Bradford Airport Campaign (LBAC)
 
 
Lydd:
Lydd Airport Action Group  
Keep the Marsh Special (Say No to Lydd Airport Expansion)
 
 
Manchester
Stop Expansion of Manchester Airport  (SEMA)
  and  SEMA blogspot
 
 
Newquay:
Groundswell Cornwall
Rising Tide - Kernow
 
Shoreham:
CARE - (Shoreham) Communities Against Runway Expansion 
 
Southampton:
 
 
Suffolk:
SSATAG South Suffolk Air Traffic Action Group
 
For those affected by the NATS proposals for Terminal Control North:
RuralPeace 
SOPAQ  (Save our Peace and Quiet)
 
 
Wolverhampton:
Wolverhampton Airport Action Group 
 
 
Wycombe Air Park  (light aircraft and helicopters)
Wycombe Air Park Action Group (WAPAG)
 
 
Scotland:
AirportWatch Scotland
 
 
Ireland
Dublin:
UPROAR - United Portmarnock Residents Opposing Another Runway (Dublin)
 
 
 
 

National organisations:

Aviation Environment Federation (AEF)
Friends of the Earth (England Wales and Northern Ireland)
Campaign to Protect Rural England
The Woodland Trust
Campaign for Better Transport (formerly  Transport 2000)
Greenpeace UK
WWF - UK
Climate Concern
World Development Movement 
Stop Climate Chaos 
Womens' Institute - Climate Change campaign 
Womens' Environmental Network - Climate Change campaign
Campaign for National Parks
Seeds for Change - training for grassroots groups
Helicopter Noise Coalition
Environmental Protection UK (formerly NSCA)
Think Before You Fly
UKRIGS
Green Alliance
Rising Tide
Plane Stupid
 
www.flyingsthenewsmoking.com
 

European:

T&E - European Federation for Transport and Environment
Aviationwatch  Europe  (linked to FoE Netherlands)
 
 
Canada:
 
CommunityAIR in Toronto

 

 

 

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