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28th February 2024 Open Hearing:
Gatwick Airport New Runway DCO process starts on 28th February with the open hearing at 10am at Sandman Signature London Gatwick Hotel, 18-23 Tinsley Lane South, Three Bridges, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 8XH
Parking is FREE but limited.
Register to attend hearing and speak (you can speak via Teams as well)
To attend specific hearings relating to
Thursday 29 February 2024 – Issue Specific Hearing 1 (ISH1) on the Case for the Proposed Development. from 10:00am.
Friday 1 March – Issue Specific Hearing 2 (ISH2) on Control Documents/ the Development Consent Order. from 9:30am.
Tuesday 5 March – Issue Specific Hearing 3 (ISH3) on Socio-economics* from 10:00am.
Tuesday 5 March – Issue Specific Hearing 4 (ISH4) on Surface Transport. from 2:00pm.
Wednesday 6 March – Issue Specific Hearing 5 (ISH5) on Aviation Noise. from 10:00am.
Thursday 7th March – PINS have also made a Procedural Decision to hold an Accompanied Site Inspection (ASI).
Agendas for the hearings can be found here:
To attend specific hearings register –
Earlier:
Gatwick has delayed consultation about its expansion plans until 2021. It had intended to consult in 2020, but has been so badly hit by the fall in air travel demand that it is now not even likely to re-open its southern terminal until perhaps summer 2021. Link
Gatwick airport: majority stake 50.01% sold to French group Vinci; GIP and partners retain 49.99%
Click here to view full story…
Gatwick Key Runway Facts
RUNWAY FACTS – Gatwick Unwrapped
and longer, more detailed briefing, Gatwick Unwrapped sets out the arguments, to give people the information they may need to help write responses to the Airports Commission consultation (deadline date 3rd February).
How to complain to Gatwick, if you are bothered by their aircraft noise
Gatwick Airport has a complaints form. There is also a way to complain by phone.
Phone number: 0344 892 0322
How to complain to Gatwick
If you wish to raise a complaint with Gatwick, have as much of the following information ready as possible:
• Your name and address including postcode.
• Date and time of the incident
• Count the engines on the aircraft. Other details might well be useful (eg Airline).
• The nature of your complaint (noise, low flying etc).
• Any other details you may have of the aircraft and flight.
The complaint form is at https://viewpoint-eu.emsbk.com/lgw3
Flight tracking apps can help you find out about the aircraft and its flight details, for more information about these see our FACTS section.
If you are dissatisfied with the response you can contact one of the local community groups around Gatwick in your area, who may be able to suggest further action.
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Gatwick’s Noise Reports can be found at https://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/aircraft-noise-airspace/noise-reports/
Airspace Office annual report 2019 includes numbers of complaints, where they are from etc
Airspace Office annual report 2018
Flight Performance Team annual report 2017
Flight Performance Team annual report 2016
Flight Performance Team annual report 2015
Civil Aviation Authority:
Information
Complaint form
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Department for Transport:
Information
Complaint form
Gatwick Noise Management Board
The NMB was set up in response to protests about the new flight paths introduced in 2013-14. In addition to various aviation bodies such as air traffic control, it has on it four representatives of local protest groups with another four protest groups acting as alternates. GACC represents the whole area around the airport and is a member of the main airport consultative committee but is not a member of the NMB. Because the local protest groups only represent specific areas, and indeed because there are many towns and villages not represented on the NMB, GACC initially proposed that all NMB meetings should be open to the public so that those not represented could have their say, but it was decided that only one in every four meetings. The 4th meeting is open to the public, and will be on 31st January 2017.
Details and papers from past meetings are at http://www.gatwickairport.com/business-community/aircraft-noise-airspace/airspace/noise-management-board/
If you have damage to your property, from a Vortex – or an ice fall – caused by an aircraft overhead
Councils around Gatwick opposed to a 2nd runway
Almost all the county, borough, district, town and parish councils around Gatwick have decided to oppose a second runway.
- Kent County Council has reversed its position, from support for a second Gatwick runway to opposition.
- After a long and passionate debate, West Sussex County Council councillors voted 37:26 to cancel their support in principle and to oppose a 2nd runway.
- Surrey County Council is sticking to its policy, agreed a few years ago, to oppose a second runway unless sufficient infrastructure improvements are made first.
- Crawley Borough Council, the planning authority for Gatwick, has voted 25:11 to oppose a second runway.
- Horsham District Council has voted 23:1 against.
- Mole Valley District Council has voted unanimously against.
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has voted 39:1 against.
- Tandridge District Council has sent in a response drawing attention to its core strategy to oppose any expansion of the airport which would adversely affect their residents.
- Mid Sussex District Council has strongly opposed a 2nd runway
- Wealden District Council has opposed a 2nd runway
- Reigate and Banstead Council is still making up its mind.
- Horley Town Council and virtually all the fifty or so parish councils around Gatwick have voted No to a runway
- The only odd one out is East Sussex County Council which voted 27:19 to support a 2nd runway. Most of the votes in favour came from councillors in seaside areas such as Hastings or Eastbourne who were enticed by the prospect of more jobs.
- None of the Members of Parliament around Gatwick support a 2nd runway. Eight out of nine MPs have declared their opposition. One (Henry Smith) says that Gatwick have not yet made a case for a new runway. He has now said (13th April 2015) that the costs of a runway “(environmental & infrastructure pressure) outweigh any benefits”.
Gatwick Airport’s Flight Tracking – Webtrak
https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lgw2
Local community groups
Main long established local residents’ group :
Airlines using Gatwick:
Dark blue = capacity in 2010. Brown = capacity in 2015
U2 EasyJet
BA British Airways
DY Norwegian
TOM Thomson
ZB Monarch
VS Virgin Atlantic
TCX Thomas Cook
EI Aer Lingus
FR Air France
EK Emirates
For passenger numbers, air transport movements, and air freight tonnage each month, compared to the same month a year earlier, see Gatwick Passenger, ATM and air freight data
Gatwick Airport Annual Reports and Financial Statements:
The Second Runway Issue
GACC has set out the arguments why a second runway at Gatwick would not work. See GACC booklet.
Gatwick is a small airport, and is confined by the towns of Horley and Crawley, and by the medieval village of Charlwood, and also by high ground to the west and the main London – Brighton railway line to the east. Charles de Gaulle Airport at Paris is five times as large.
Gatwick has one main runway, and one subsidiary runway which can be used when the main runway is not available. The two runways are too close together to be used simultaneously.
Any new runway is ruled out before August 2019 by a legal agreement between BAA and West Sussex County Council signed in 1979. Because of the constricted topography at Gatwick, any new runway won’t work from an aviation point of view.
For more details see The Runway Issue
Gatwick is the world’s largest single runway airport where more than half the flights are low cost. Few passengers – approximately just one in 10 – use Gatwick to transfer to other flights.
Master Plan – July 2012
GACC welcomes the low priority given to a new runway in the Gatwick master plan
July 23, 2012 GACC, the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign, has commented on the Gatwick Airport Master Plan that was published last week. They welcome the assurance given by the Gatwick CEO, Stewart Wingate, that “Gatwick Airport is not actively pursuing, promoting or lobbying for a 2nd runway”. However, GIP, the major shareholder in Gatwick, wants to sell its shares in around 2018 and the prospect of a new runway would improve the price. GACC reiterates that there is no space for an efficient new runway (as the master plan admits) and it is doubtful if a new runway would prove profitable. GACC chairman, Brendon Sewill, said: “If any new runway ever became a serious possibility, there would be massive opposition from across Surrey, Sussex and Kent.” GACC have also rubbished the economic figures in the master plan, with its hugely exaggerated jobs claims, and inaccurate and inflated figures of alleged economic benefit. Click here to view full story…
Some general information about the airport:
Master Plan Interim October 2006. Then Gatwick master plan 2012
Gatwick Airport. Flights and CO2 emissions.
Analysis of flights, routes, and top 10 destinations from Gatwick Airport in 2011.
Also carbon emissions.
And passenger growth and numbers over the past 15 years. http://www.awsw.co.uk/allco2/LGW_co2.html
CAA aviation statistics
CAA aviation statistics
Passengers
2010 31,342,000 (down – 3% on 2009) link to 2010 data
Air Transport Movements
Air Freight
Future plans: 40 million passengers per year by 2015.
Second runway, after 2019
Consultative Committee: Gatwick Area Consultative Committee (GACC)
Serviced by West Sussex County Council. Chairman John Godfrey, Vice Hilary Sewill.
Good support for environmental issues.
Local residents’ or airport opposition group :
Recent news about Gatwick Airport See Gatwick News
Gatwick Airport Website – facts and figures about Gatwick
2007 11.4%
2008 10.9%
Business Aviation: Number of business flights (= private jets)
CAA statistics, annual figures – Table 3.1
2007 475 (+ 1,499 air taxis)
2008 5,412 (+ 1,482 a ir taxis)
Gatwick Airport signs up to new legal commitments 15.12.2008
05 January 2009 London Gatwick Airport has signed a new legal agreement with West Sussex County Council and Crawley Borough Council. The agreement outlines how the airport’s operation, growth and environmental impacts will be managed responsibly. It underpins the important relationship between the airport owner and its local authorities with responsibility for planning, environmental management and highways.
The new legal agreement, reached after a process of consultation and discussion with a wide range of stakeholders, contains wide ranging objectives and obligations. In addition to West Sussex County Council and Crawley Borough Council, in whose areas the airport lies, seven other adjoining councils were consulted.
This new agreement and London Gatwick Airport’s interim master plan supersede the Gatwick Airport Sustainable Development Strategy, published in July 2000 and the original legal agreement signed in 2001. The new agreement will run until the end of 2015.
“The signing of this agreement between the airport and our two local authorities is of great importance to all of us and builds on the original ground-breaking agreement,” Andy Flower Managing Director London Gatwick Airport said. “It will bring significant benefits to the airport and the community it serves and affects. It demonstrates a desire for all those involved to see the airport grow to 40 million passengers per year and to delivering new capacity for the south east, whilst balancing our environmental impacts. We are entering a new chapter in Gatwick’s history with the sale of this national asset and this legal agreement continues to define Gatwick’s future and the role it will play in the local, regional and national economy.”
The key issues addressed in the agreement include climate change; air quality; noise; surface access; land use, development and bio-diversity; community and the economy; action planning and monitoring and reporting.
BAA press release 5.1.2009
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