{"id":5029,"date":"2018-08-21T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2019-03-23T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:28:18","slug":"new-poll-reveals-mixed-views-on-3rd-runway%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5029","title":{"rendered":"New Poll reveals mixed views on 3rd runway\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>A new poll from Populus, commissioned by Heathrow and released by them on 21st September,&nbsp; reveals mixed views on the third runway.  50% of people in the 15 local authority areas closest to the airport backed a new runway, with 32% opposed.   The results are not dissimilar to the ones the polling company, Populus, has carried out over the years.&nbsp; HACAN has been critical of the methodology Populus use and took legal advice on challenging them.&nbsp; The lawyers felt that Populus were not doing anything illegal although some of their questions bordered on being leading questions.&nbsp; With that in mind support for a 3rd runway may be few percentage points lower than they claim but their broad findings are consistent with other polls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Populus-Poll-on-Heathrow-Expansion-September-2018-1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Populus-Poll-on-Heathrow-Expansion-September-2018-1-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Populus-Poll-on-Heathrow-Expansion-September-2018-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Populus-Poll-on-Heathrow-Expansion-September-2018-1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Populus-Poll-on-Heathrow-Expansion-September-2018-1-1568x2218.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Here is the link to the full poll:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.populus.co.uk\/poll\/heathrow-airport-poll\/\">https:\/\/www.populus.co.uk\/poll\/heathrow-airport-poll\/<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll from Populus, commissioned by Heathrow and released by them on 21st September,&nbsp; reveals mixed views on the third runway. 50% of people in the 15 local authority areas closest to the airport backed a new runway, with 32% opposed. The results are not dissimilar to the ones the polling company, Populus, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Poll reveals mixed views on 3rd runway\ufeff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029"}],"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=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}