Bristol Airport
Appeal Court rejects application by BAAN to appeal against Bristol Airport expansion decision
In January the High Court ruled that the airport’s major expansion plans could go ahead following a lengthy legal battle, but local group Bristol Airport Action Network appealed against the decision. Now that appeal has been “refused on all grounds”. by the Court of Appeal. A ruling found that there was not “real prospect of success” of the challenge and no other compelling reason for to allow it. The airport plans to expand its maximum capacity from 10m to 12m passengers a year, had initially been refused planning permission by North Somerset Council in January 2020. The airport’s owner Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan later appealed to the Government, and the decision was overturned by the Planning Inspectorate in February 2022. BAAN has been fighting ever since, and commented that “The airport can now expand by an extra 2 million passengers a year, build a multi-storey car park on Greenbelt land, massively increase the number of summer night flights and congest the local roads with an extra 10,000 cars a day.” As well as hugely increase its carbon emissions. BAAN says “the planning system concerning airport expansion has been rigged by the government to ignore the climate crisis.”
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High Court has ruled that expansion of Bristol Airport will be allowed to go ahead
Campaigners against the expansion of Bristol airport legally challenged the decision of the Planning Inspectorate (PI), a year ago. The High Court has now ruled that the expansion can go ahead. North Somerset Council rejected the expansion in 2020 on environmental grounds but that decision was later overruled by the PI. Expansion would see the airport increase its capacity from 10 million to 12 million passengers per year. Opponents of the growth, through the Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN), are very disappointed, but are already planning on challenging the ruling. BAAN has been arguing planning inspectors were wrong to ignore the impact a bigger airport would have on climate change. In his decision Lord Justice Lane said expanding the airport would impact the environment but that the decision is for central government not local. There is no proper law on UK aviation, or any legal means to control cumulative CO2 emissions from many airport expansion. The Climate Change Committee say there are big risks in the airline industry hoping for low carbon fuels in future, and recommend that “there should be no net expansion of airport capacity”.
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– Some news about Bristol Airport
– Local community Group – Bristol Airport Watch http://www.stopbristolairportexpansion.org/
– Bristol Airport Planning application information
High Court rejects Bristol Airport judicial review
27th October 2011 Campaign group Stop Bristol Airport Expansion have been refused permission for a judicial review against North Somerset Council’s approval of the airport’s plan. Mr Justice Collins, at London’s High Court, said the decision adhered to Government aviation policy (the out of date ATWP 2003) and even if that policy was flawed, legally it should stand. They had argued that climate change was a local, national & international issue, and thus relevant to airport expansion. Click here to view full story…
Bristol Airport £150m expansion plans given the go-ahead by government
Airport Owner | In September 2014, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan bought out Macquarie to become the sole owner. In 2011 the shareholders were Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – 49%, Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 1 – 50% – part of Macquarie Group, and MAp Airports (formerly Macquarie Airports) – 1%. Was Macquarie Airports Group till 2009. |
Airport Operator | South West Airports Ltd |
Airlines using the airport | Aer Arann, Air France, Air Malta, Air Southwest, Aurigny, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines, Eastern Airways, *Easyjet, Flybe, KLM, OLT, *Ryanair, Skybus (* are the main ones) |
Key destinations | All European. The only long haul flight was to New York (by Continental) which ended on 7.11.2010) Bristol Airport. Flights and CO2 emissions. Analysis of flights, routes, and top 10 destinations from Bristol Airport in 2011. Also carbon emissions. |
Numbers of passengers (thousands) – CAA figures | Terminal passengers UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 10.3) Terminal Passengers 2002 – 2012 1996 – 1,393 2000 – 2,124 2005 – 5,199 2006 – 5,710 2007 – 5,884 2008 – 6,229 (up + 6% on 2007) 2009 – 5,615,336 (down – 9.8% on 2008) 2010 – 5,723,000 (up + 2% on 2009) link to 2010 data 2011 – 5,768 (no changed from 2010) 2012 – 5,916,258 (up + 2.6% on 2011) |
Air Transport Movements Passenger and cargo aircraft – CAA figures | Air Transport Movements UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 4.2) ATMs 2002 – 2012 (annual figures, table 4.2) 2005 – 61,311 2006 – 65,825 2007 – 59,000 approx 2008 – 60,000 (up 2% on 2007) 2009 – 53,824 (down -10.4% on 2008) 2010 – 54,000 (same as 2009) link to 2010 data 2011 – 53,000 (down -2% on 2010) 2012 – 50,654 (down – 3.8% on 2011) |
Air Freight tonnage – CAA figures | Freight UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 13.2) Freight 2002 – 2012 1996 – 121 2000 – 77 2005 – 16 2006 – 32 2007 – 20 2008 – 3 (down – 85% on 2007) 2009 – none 2010 – “ 2011 – “ 2012 – none |
Airport Master Plan | November 2006 |
Future plans | Officially 9 million passengers per year, by 2015 and 12.5m by 2030, but the airport says in fact “9m will probably be hit by 2009.” [In reality there were 5.6 million in 2009]. |
Consultative Committee | Minutes can be found at: http://www.bristol-airport.co.uk/about_us/community/airport_consultative_committee.aspx |
Local Residents’ or airport opposition group | Stop Bristol Airport Expansion (SBAE) at www.stopbia.com – (alliance of CPRE, FOE and the local Parish Councils Airport Association) email@stopbia.com |
Recent news | Master Plan noted with severe reservations by North Somerset – currently expecting polanning applications by Spring 2008 – but may be trying to sneak it on “organic growth”. |
Airport contact details | Bristol International Airport Bristol BS48 3DY Tel: 0871 334 4444 |
Noise complaints | You can register a noise complaint by telephoning Tel: 01275 473 799 and see the Stop BIA website with more information on noise complaints: http://www.nobristolairportexpansion.co.uk/noise.php |
Airport website environment page | |
Proportion of domestic passengers, out of total passengers | CAA statistics, annual figures – comparing Tables 9 and 10.2 2006 24.5% |
Business Aviation | Number of business flights (= private jets) 2007 2 ( + 57 air taxis) 2008 1 (+ 133 air taxis) |
Wikipedia page on Bristol Airport |
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