NEWSLETTER November 2019

NEWSLETTER November 2019

10th November 2019
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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 MORATORIUM ON AIRPORT EXPANSION PLANNING APPLICATIONS

4th November 2019
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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, […]

The public response to the Bristol Airport planning application

5th October 2019
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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 […]

GREENWASHING THE AIRPORT

25th September 2019
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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. […]

Why Bristol Airport should not be granted planning permission to expand its car parking operation

13th September 2019
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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 […]

Stranded Assets in North Somerset: the risk of investing public money in infrastructure for Bristol Airport expansion

13th September 2019
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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 […]

‘Flying High’: Bristol Airport presses the panic button

6th September 2019
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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 […]

What can be achieved by one person taking action …

7th August 2019
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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 […]

Bristol Airport – the ‘carbon case’ doesn’t add up

2nd August 2019
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Steve Melia The owners of Bristol Airport have recently submitted an application to expand the airport’s capacity from 10 million mppa (passenger movements per annum) to 12 mppa, as part of a longer-term plan to double the airport’s capacity by 2040. They have clearly been shaken by the scale of public opposition […]

Just Plane Wrong: Bristol Airport expansion

14th July 2019
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by Adrian Gibbs Analysis of Bristol Airport’s planning application has found that the carbon emissions submitted in the environmental statement hugely underestimate the actual impact of the expansion. Adrian Gibbs, an environmental consultant who analysed the planning statement, found that the “impact of the current planning application from 10 to 12 […]