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In the run up the General Election on Thursday 12th December the Stop Bristol Airport Expansion (SBAEx) campaign has contacted parliamentary candidates for North Somerset and Weston to seek §their views on Bristol Airport’s proposed expansion. Bristol Airport wants to increase passenger numbers to 12 million a year by 2025, a […]

We’re now entering the crucial period in the fight to stop Bristol Airport’s proposed expansion when the North Somerset Council’s Planning Committee will meet early in 2020 to decide whether or not to approve the Airport’s planning application. This application must be rejected for the sake of our health and […]

A Letter from the Aviation Environment Federation to the Minister for Transport and for Housing Communities and Local Government 22 October 2019 Dear Secretaries of State We are writing to ask you to suspend the determination by all planning authorities of applications to increase the physical capacity of UK airports, […]

Prof Emma CrewePresentation to North Somerset Council 24th September “I speak as a local resident but also as a social scientist at the University of London specialising in the evaluation of development projects. In social terms the project I want to comment on – Bristol Airport expansion – is a relatively easy […]

Earlier this month a coalition of groups opposed to Bristol Airport expansion demonstrated outside Bristol Council House during the Festival of Sustainable Business where, in an attempt to acquire some kind of environmental credibility, Bristol Airport sponsored a seminar at which a senior executive talked about a zero carbon airport. […]

Hilary Burn: a presentation to the Executive Committee of North Somerset Council 11th September 2019 I am speaking here as an elected Parish Councillor and on behalf of the Parish Councils Airport Association representing over 21 parishes.  Parishes within the Association have all objected to the application. The large number […]

Presentation to Executive Committee, North Somerset Council 11th September 2011 by John Adams, resident of North Somerset, a near neighbour of the Bristol Airport for 24 years, and director of the Stop Bristol Airport Expansion campaign. Most arguments against expansion focus on the significant harms to health and well being […]

Within a period of some 48 hours towards week ending 17 August the North Somerset Council planning website was deluged by several hundred notifications in support of the Bristol Airport planning application. Why? Because Bristol Airport pushed a panic button and sent an email to thousands of customers on its […]

Oz Osborne from Winford has collected 2700 objections to Bristol Airport’s expansion plans in the last couple of weeks. “I visited the ‘silent majority’ – the old folk and others without internet or social media connections living in the Chew valley, many of whom are living under the flight path […]