The Transport Select Committee Report into the National Policy Statement (NPS) on Airports (essentially, the 3rd<\/sup> runway at Heathrow) has been published today (23rd<\/sup> March). The report backs a third runway at Heathrow but has come up with some challenging conditions including tougher air pollution targets and a 7 hour night flight ban. The Government will respond to the Committee in a few weeks time. It doesn\u2019t need to accept the conditions but the Committee warns that unless it does it could leave the NPS open to a legal challenge. A Parliamentary vote is still expected in the summer. If Parliament backs a 3rd<\/sup> runway, it becomes official Government policy. Heathrow then has the task of drawing up and consulting on the detailed plans before presenting them to a planning inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201719\/cmselect\/cmtrans\/548\/54803.htm<\/a> summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201719\/cmselect\/cmtrans\/548\/54804.htm<\/a> conclusions and recommendations<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201719\/cmselect\/cmtrans\/548\/54802.htm<\/a> the full report<\/p>\n\n\n\n And a summary of key points HACAN has put together:<\/strong> http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Transport-Select-Committee-NPS-Report-Key-Points-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Transport Select Committee Report into the National Policy Statement (NPS) on Airports (essentially, the 3rd runway at Heathrow) has been published today (23rd March). The report backs a third runway at Heathrow but has come up with some challenging conditions including tougher air pollution targets and a 7 hour night flight ban. The Government … Continue reading “Transport Select Committee backs 3rd Runway but with challenging conditions”<\/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\/5045"}],"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=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}