I can now report that we went even further at the Inquiry and called on the Inspector to recommend that, subject to permission being given for T5, an additional Heathrow runway should be ruled out forever… "We have since repeated often that we do not want, nor shall we seek, an additional runway. In another of its 'Dear Neighbour' letters to residents (April 1999) BAA’s Sir John Egan writes: "…Additional runway ruled out forever whether T5 is approved or not" But the Government has decided that with Terminal 5 at Heathrow due to open in future, the M25 needs this extra space." (Daily Express, 1 August 1998) 1999īAA continues to say it does not want a third runway: "The only sour note (in the Roads Review) lies in the decision to approve the widening of the M25 between Junctions 12 and 15. The Government effectively admits that is has already decided on T5, by announcing the widening of the M25 where BAA's spur road into T5 needs to be connected as part of its Raods Review: Labour win the 1997 General Election BAA is an early visitor to John Prescott MP, the new transport secretary at the then DETR, lobbying on T5 and aviation growth generally. "The problem at Heathrow is not the lack of runway capacity but shortage of terminal space…The inevitable overcrowding until T5 is build is likely to cause…problems…".īAA News Release - BAA warn of potential "national crisis.", 12 October 1997 'Heathrow News, Produced For Local Residents by BAA Heathrow', May 1997.īAA also claims that runway capacity at Heathrow was not a problem: We now know for example that there will be no third runway at Heathrow - a widespread concern before the inquiry started"
".some legitimate fears have been put to rest. In a public newsletter it suggests that the inquiry hearings had put to rest concerns raised by Friends of the Earth that T5 was a Trojan horse for a third runway: 1997īAA continues to proclaim that runway capacity is not an issue. Inspector Vandermeer, QC, November 1995, during the cross examination of Alison Munroe, a Department of Transport witness. "I am not sure that we have received evidence of that does not hit you forcibly that it (ruling out more runways) is said with total certainty" "We could not rule out the option of considering Heathrow when another runway is required.We could not give a guarantee about seeking further expansion." Inside the T5 Inquiry BAA’s Michael Maine says something different: Sir John Egan, BAA's Chief Executive writes to residents in surrounding boroughs and says: "T5 does not call for a third runway" BAA’s 'Dear neighbour' letter to residents in a wide area around Heathrow. The evidence is not challenged by BAA, by BA or by the Government.īAA mounts a PR campaign denying there will be a third runway.
This is north of the airport, between the A4 and the M4, and would minimise demolition of property. They produce a map showing the likely location of a short runway.
1995įriends of the Earth and other groups start giving evidence to the Terminal 5 (T5) Public Inquiry, showing that T5 will lead to and is a Trojan horse for a third runway. This means that if the land is wanted for a new runway, only BA's HQ will have to be moved. The Council does not allow general development on this Green Belt land. Hillingdon Council allows BA to build its new headquarters on Harmondsworth Moor (on Prospect Park, now known as Waterside). The airport requires extra terminal capacity, rather than runway capacity." (Uxbridge Informer, 25 March 1994) 1994īAA plc, which was a member of the RUCATSE study, distances itself from the report: "We must stress that this company is not planning or proposing to build a third runway at Heathrow. This would mean the destruction of 4,000 houses, a church and one of the finest tithe barns in the country. Various options explored include a runway to the north of the existing boundary of Heathrow. RUCATSE, a study into Runway Capacity in South East England, says another runway will be needed in the South East by 2005. "Even by the dubious ethics of the airline industry, this is lower than a rattlesnake's stomach." 1993 - 1999 1993
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