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This project successfully funded on 9th March 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 9th March 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Gatwick Airport new runway is not a done deal – CAGNE's established legal team has now served a letter of intent to the Secretary of State
As you will have read, the Secretary of State for Transport has approved a new runway at Gatwick Airport.
This is obviously disappointing but something the CAGNE legal team had expected, so we are prepared to serve a Judicial Review, this week having issued a letter of intent to the Secretary of State for Transport. CAGNE therefore ask you to consider donating to CAGNE fund to oppose this new runway.
The grounds will become clear this week as the team progresses through the statement. But what is clear is that:
· Gatwick will seek to move the traffic burden (and decline in air quality) onto neighbouring areas, as we see already with the increase in the drop-off fee, ensuring that they meet the 54% arriving by public transport.
· That the compensation will be for a few and not for the majority who will have homes devalued by two runway operations (going from 285,000 to 386,000 flights per year), and the only guarantee is that noise will double.
· That the seasonal jobs do not pay for housing local to the airport (and increases the issues for lack of affordable housing) but will migrate in by car.
· The government could have secured £40m for an onsite wastewater treatment plant but has left the subject wide open to negotiations between the airport and Thames Water (that is at near capacity) post planning permission.
· And that the impact aviation is having on the planet is to be disregarded, as Gatwick exports more sterling out of the UK economy than it brings in as the new runway will add over 1m tonnes of extra carbon a year.
These, and for many other reasons, are why CAGNE asks your council to donate to the established legal team of Leigh Day Solicitors and award winning KC Estelle Dohan here or via www.cagne.org, or through the crowdjustice service https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/oppose-a-new-runway-at-gatwick/
CAGNE seeks to be fair to all communities and the planet and secured the recommendation for refusal from the Planning Inspectorate. The public online meeting as well as events explaining about airspace above your home. If you missed them the links can be found at www.cagne.org.
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