{"id":3399,"date":"2015-10-29T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:05:13","slug":"new-survey-london-businesses-rate-airport-expansion-the-least-important-measure-to-assist-the-capitals-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"New survey:  London businesses rate airport expansion the least important measure to assist the capital\u2019s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>29\/10\/15 <em>for immediate use<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Londoners rate new airport capacity as he least important measure required to ensure London remains competitive with other global cities, according to a survey released today by the London Chamber of Commerce <strong>(1).<\/strong>\u00a0 The survey, undertaken by ComRes for London Tomorrow, a group set up in part by the London Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry, found affordable housing topped most people\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p>Com Res surveyed businesses, councillors and the public.\u00a0 Only 3% of the public put new airport capacity at the top of their list and just 2% of businesses and 1% of councillors did so.<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, the chair of HACAN, which campaigns against a third runway at Heathrow, said, \u201cThese figures are very revealing.\u00a0 Across the board Londoners do not think airport matters to the future of the capital.\u00a0 The figures suggest that the polls which Heathrow Airport has carried out \u00a0in a limited number of areas close to the airport significantly overstate the support there is for a third runway amongst Londoners as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Notes for Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(1).<\/strong> The full poll can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comres.co.uk\/polls\/lcci-london-tomorrow-survey-q3-2015\/\">http:\/\/www.comres.co.uk\/polls\/lcci-london-tomorrow-survey-q3-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Stewart on 0207 737 6641; 07957385650<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u00a029\/10\/15 for immediate use \u00a0Londoners rate new airport capacity as he least important measure required to ensure London remains competitive with other global cities, according to a survey released today by the London Chamber of Commerce (1).\u00a0 The survey, undertaken by ComRes for London Tomorrow, a group set up in part by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New survey:  London businesses rate airport expansion the least important measure to assist the capital\u2019s economy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399"}],"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=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}