{"id":3471,"date":"2015-12-19T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2015-12-19T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:59:36","slug":"campaigners-post-pre-xmas-thank-you-letters-to-pm-for-refusing-to-give-green-light-to-3rd-runway-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners post pre-Xmas thank-you letters to PM for refusing to give green light to 3rd runway&#8230;.so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>18\/12\/15 <em>for immediate use<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Anti-3<sup>rd<\/sup> Runway <\/strong>Campaigners post pre-Xmas thank-you letters to PM<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Post-box-2-1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3472\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3472\" src=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Post-box-2-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Post box 2\" width=\"916\" height=\"1632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past week hundreds of people campaigning against Heathrow expansion wrote pre-Christmas letters to David Cameron thanking him for keeping his promise not to build a third runway and urging him not to break it next year when a decision on runway capacity is expected to be announced.\u00a0 This morning three representatives of the campaigners posted letters through a post box in the heart of Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Government announced that it would postpone a decision on new runways until at least the middle of 2016.\u00a0 It made clear that Heathrow and Gatwick were still in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 David Cameron, then leader of the opposition, pledged in a speech in Richmond, \u201cNo ifs, no buts; there will be no third runway at Heathrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, chair of HACAN, one of the groups opposed to expansion, said, \u201cThese letters are yet another indication of how strongly people feel about a third runway.\u00a0 We urge David Cameron to keep his promise in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u00a018\/12\/15 for immediate use \u00a0Anti-3rd Runway Campaigners post pre-Xmas thank-you letters to PM &nbsp; Over the past week hundreds of people campaigning against Heathrow expansion wrote pre-Christmas letters to David Cameron thanking him for keeping his promise not to build a third runway and urging him not to break it next year when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Campaigners post pre-Xmas thank-you letters to PM for refusing to give green light to 3rd runway&#8230;.so far&#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\/3471"}],"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=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}