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Friday 8th MarchIn response to the interview with John Darvall please write to Cllr Nigel Ashton at nigel.ashton@n-somerset.gov.uk The interview is available for a limited period https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070nhdl On Radio Bristol this morning, Councillor Nigel Ashton, leader of North Somerset Council, made a number of partisan and poorly informed assertions about […]

The Stop Bristol Airport alliance is pleased to note that you have asked the Secretary of State to ‘call in’ the Airport planning application. However there are some serious misrepresentations and omissions in your letter: It is highly misleading to assert that local residents ‘understand and accept the substantial economic […]

Councillor Nigel Ashton is quoted as saying that ‘the numbers stack up’ on North Somerset Council’s strategy of commercial investment.One very good investment for public monies would be a small number of dispersed Park & Ride sites for Bristol Airport outside the Green Belt as an interim solution until full […]

A recent opinion poll funded by Bristol Airport (BA) found over 70% of respondents in favour of expansion… There were just two questions which were included in an occasional YouGov ‘omnibus’ survey. The survey was sent out to their UK-wide database but only respondents who answered the two BA questions […]

Welcome! The Stop Bristol Airport Expansion campaign website is now up and running and ready for the next phase of the campaign leading up to the meeting of North Somerset’s Planning and Regulatory Committee in mid-April. The website summarises arguments against expansion, challenges Airport claims and statistics, and provides regular […]

A member has posted the following which needs widest possible circulation … Bristol Airport has commissioned a survey of the southwest to see whether we wanted the airport extended. They asked 217 people (so not very many at all) and extrapolated from there. They told them that the airport would […]

If you missed the BBC’s ‘Sunday Politics’ show, you can watch the full episode here for a limited time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0c01gnn/sunday-politics-west-03022019?fbclid=IwAR1Q9CzgGiPj_pxJimnq4JKTNo-h0rEF-YbGhFmE_zsHhhbWPd9XWS3GZh8