{"id":3497,"date":"2016-02-02T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2019-03-13T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T22:15:12","slug":"3497-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners plaster Osborne’s constituency with no 3rd runway signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday 1st<\/sup> February for immediate use<\/strong><\/p>\n

Campaigners plaster Osborne’s constituency with no 3rd runway signs<\/h3>\n

Campaigners against Heathrow expansion today plastered George Osborne\u2019s constituency with No Third Runway signs.\u00a0 They put up the signs in the main street of Knutsford in the heart of the constituency, including one outside Conservative Party headquarters in the town.\u00a0 The campaigners wanted to get across to the Chancellor, thought to back expansion at Heathrow, that a new runway would cost the taxpayer billions of pounds .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Jones, one of the Londoners who went up to Knutsford, said, \u201cWe deliberately chose the day after people have had to get their tax returns in so as to emphaisise to George Osborne just how much public money will be needed to pay for the road and rail links for a third runway.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Airports Commission, which the Government set up to look at the need for new airports, put the cost at almost \u00a36 billion.\u00a0 Transport for London has put it even higher.\u00a0 Heathrow has said it will pay no more than \u00a31.1billion (1).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jones said, \u201cThat leaves the taxpayer to find around \u00a35 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campaign group HACAN calculated that everybody in the country would each need to fork out \u00a380 to pay for the road and rail links a third runway would need (2).<\/strong><\/p>\n

HACAN also unearthed evidence that \u00a35bn could buy 83,000new social homes or 835,000 hip replacements (3).<\/strong><\/p>\n

HACAN Chair John Stewart, said, \u201cThe billions of pounds of Government money that would be needed for 3rd<\/sup> runway road and rail schemes might even make the Chancellor, George Osborne, think twice about backing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Notes for Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>(1). <\/strong>Heathrow would pay for the runway itself but not all of the associated road and rail costs.<\/p>\n

(2).<\/strong> If the cost is \u00a35 billion and the UK population is 63,182,000 (2011 census), that’s \u00a379 each.<\/p>\n

(3).<\/strong> http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-32309311<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release Monday 1st February for immediate use Campaigners plaster Osborne’s constituency with no 3rd runway signs Campaigners against Heathrow expansion today plastered George Osborne\u2019s constituency with No Third Runway signs.\u00a0 They put up the signs in the main street of Knutsford in the heart of the constituency, including one outside Conservative Party headquarters in … Continue reading “Campaigners plaster Osborne’s constituency with no 3rd runway signs”<\/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\/3497"}],"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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}