Tag Archives: stansted
Is Stansted’s ancient woodland safe from Manchester Airports Group?
BAA’s airport monopoly was broken up even further last week with the announcement of a winning bid of £1.5billion for Stansted Airport. Manchester Airports Group (MAG) is the new owner. After the fight of the decade, will this be good news or … Continue reading
Planning under attack
Budget week is always an exciting time as the public, politicians and media commentators speculate about, and reflect upon, a raft of announcements. Yesterday the Chancellor George Osborne offered a further attack on the planning system, highlighting its alleged role … Continue reading
The fight of the decade
The threat is finally over and Stansted’s second runway is OFF the table! Hard to believe it’s been ten years since we first identified a threat to almost 20 hectares of irreplaceable woodland habitat in the heart of the Essex countryside. … Continue reading
Could this be the end for Stansted?
The end of the threat to ancient woodland, that is! The Coalition Government has published its programme for governing. It includes, along with many other pledges, this: ‘We will refuse permission for additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.’ Could this … Continue reading
Airport expansion? Chaos!
** Updated ** March 2010 BAA says it is ‘fully committed’ to pushing 2nd runway plans forward – threatening to bring a possible 3 additional years to this already 8 year period of uncertainty. Read BAA’s reply to the Secretary of State’s letter. ============= … Continue reading
‘Bias’ enables BAA to win appeal against Stansted’s sale
We hear this week that airport operator BAA’s appeal to the Competition Commission against their decision that the operator must sell off some of their airports has been upheld. Concerns about the ‘apparent bias’ of one member of the panel … Continue reading
Record of the world’s first tweeting tree
Read what happened when the trees went to London to visit the High Court and see the appeal against the Government’s plans for increased passenger numbers at Stansted. This is just a record of the tweets from the day from the … Continue reading
Appeal against Stansted expansion launched
As I mentioned here previously, the Government’s decision to allow expansion of passenger numbers at Stansted is a shocking indictment of their short-sighted and incoherent approach to climate change and aviation. Geoff Hoon and Hazel Blears even went as far … Continue reading
Looks like BAA are pulling out all the stops to get their second runway approved at Stansted.
A chat with our friends at the Stop Stansted’s Expansion campaign office yesterday revealed that staff at the airport are being ‘encouraged’ to sign a petition in favour of plans to build another runway at Stansted airport – by their boss, … Continue reading
