In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that, based on a vast and incontrovertible body of scientific evidence, we only have 12 years to save the planet and ourselves from climate-related disaster. Bristol Airport acts as if the scientific evidence is science fiction.
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Each year in the UK around 40,000 deaths are attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution. It’s been linked to cancer, asthma, stroke and heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and changes linked to dementia. The incidence of asthma and respiratory diseases is 17% higher among those living within 6.2 miles of a major airport. Cardiac problems are 9% more common, with the elderly and very young particularly at risk.
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1. Bristol Airport recognises that its proposed expansion ‘has the potential to have significant effects on the environment’ and would like all airport operational and related land to be ‘released from the Green Belt designation’.
2. The airport is looking to extend the Silver Zone car park to add approximately 2,700 additional spaces on land that’s currently in the Green Belt and less than 2km from a Special Area of Conservation for the protected species of Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bat …
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Bristol Airport wants the right to operate 4,000 night flights between the hours of 23:30 and 06:00 with no seasonal restrictions. A total of 5453 dwellings will be affected by an increase in night noise if the Airport expands to accommodate 12 million passengers a year. The concentration of night flights in the summer season will damage mental health and wellbeing in many communities affecting over 20,000 people. The harm will be particularly damaging to children and the infirm.
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Bristol Airport has no rail link and a limited public bus access. So more than 87% passengers in 2017 travelled there by car. Airport expansion to 12 million passengers a year will generate an average of 9,500 additional vehicle movements per day and at peak periods around 13,000 more vehicles per day – that’s 28,000 total private vehicle journeys per day or 10.2 million car journeys a year through Central and Bristol, South Bristol and North Somerset. The consequences of this traffic on the totally inadequate road system will be frequent gridlock on main roads and in the surrounding lanes
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Bristol Airport’s aviation operation, receiving and despatching planes, generates less than forty per cent of its income. The most profitable part of the business is car parking, which forms the core of its business model; the Airport is morphing into a vast car park with a landing strip attached.
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