{"id":1081,"date":"2009-01-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.hacan.org.uk\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:32:39","slug":"department-for-transport-releases-heathrow-consultation-reponses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Department for Transport Releases Heathrow Consultation Reponses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Overwhelming NO. Just 11% supported expansion. The public overwhelmingly said No to Heathrow expansion during the Government consultation held last year.<!--more-->  Of the nearly 70,000 responses to the consultation held only a little over 8,000 wanted any form of expansion.  Just 11% of people.  Noise and air pollution were the biggest concerns, with nearly half the people responding expressing worries about these issues.<\/p>\n<p>There were 306 responses from aviation and airline companies but only a total of 241 from all other businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The London borough of Hillingdon topped the poll for the number of polls and petitions sent in.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine Nicholson, the Chair of NoTRAG (No Third Runway Action Group, said, &#8220;The public view could not be clearer.  People do not want a 3rd runway.  The Brown Runway is massively unpopular.  We don&#8217;t believe it will ever see the light of day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HACAN Chair John Stewart commented: &#8220;These figures give the lie to the claim that business is clamouring for a 3rd runway.  Outside the aviation industry, only 241 businesses from right across the UK felt the need to express their view.  How underwhelming is that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes for Editors<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong>.  Detailed figures<\/p>\n<p>the DfT has published a 208-page report on responses to the Heathrow Consultation.<\/p>\n<p>There were 69,377 responses (plus 1,991 that were late and therefore not analysed).<br \/>\nThere was no single YES or NO question (and as you all know, most of the questions were loaded). However:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>only 8128 wanted any form of expansion <\/li>\n<li>33667 raised noise issues<\/li>\n<li>37017 raised pollution issues<\/li>\n<li>12937 raised increased CO2 issues<\/li>\n<li>16257 were concerned about community displacement <\/li>\n<li>9638 questioned the consultation process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were 306 responses from aviation and airline companies, but only another 241 responses from businesses<\/p>\n<p>Totals for responses (postcards, petitions etc) generated by campaign groups are given:<\/p>\n<p>London Boro of Hillingdon 14994<br \/>\nGreenpeace 6698<br \/>\nLondon Boro of Wandsworth 4589<br \/>\nLondon Boro of Hamm and Fulham 4270<br \/>\nNoTRAG 4051<br \/>\nFuture Heathrow 3769<br \/>\nBritish Airways 1494<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stewart on 0207 737 6641; 07957385650<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geraldine Nicholson on 07710 523369; 01895 854519<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Overwhelming NO. Just 11% supported expansion. The public overwhelmingly said No to Heathrow expansion during the Government consultation held last year.<\/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\/1081"}],"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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}