{"id":1000,"date":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.hacan.org.uk\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:30:52","slug":"future-heathrows-arguments-flounder-in-face-of-chamber-of-commerce-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Future Heathrow&#8217;s Arguments Flounder in Face of Chamber of Commerce Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>78% of firms oppose expansion at Heathrow. A survey released last month by the London Chamber of Commerce shows there is little demand amongst businesses in London for further expansion at Heathrow <strong>(1)<\/strong>.<!--more-->  The survey will come as a major embarrassment for Future Heathrow, the pro-expansion pressure group, which has consistently argued that, if Heathrow does not grow, businesses will relocate to other European cities <strong>(2)<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>But the Chamber of Commerce survey reveals that less than a sixth of firms would even consider leaving London if Heathrow does not expand.  In fact, 78% of firms were opposed to expansion at Heathrow.  Indeed, nearly half of all firms &#8212; 44% &#8211; argued for an increase in Air Passenger Duty and a tax to be imposed on aviation fuel to limit the environmental impact of air travel.<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, the Chair of HACAN ClearSkies, said, &#8220;This survey has clearly backfired for the London Chamber of Commerce, who are supporters of Future Heathrow.   The fact they chose to call their report &#8216;The Business Case for Airport Expansion: Why the Anti-Airport Protesters are Wrong&#8217; will simply have added to their embarrassment.  No wonder it has taken a full month for the details of the findings to trickle out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HACAN ClearSkies has produced its own fact sheet refuting the arguments put forward by Future Heathrow <strong>(3)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes for editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong>  The survey was published in March.  Further details can be obtained from the London Chamber of Commerce on (020) 7203 1897.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong>  Future Heathrow is headed up by Lord Soley, the former Labour MP Clive Soley.  The aim of the pressure group is to push for further expansion at Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3)<\/strong>  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hacan.org.uk\/resources\/reports\/hacan.countering.future.heathrow.arguments.pdf\">fact sheet<\/a> is attached.<\/p>\n<p>For further information contact John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78% of firms oppose expansion at Heathrow. A survey released last month by the London Chamber of Commerce shows there is little demand amongst businesses in London for further expansion at Heathrow (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}