Boris Johnson as soon as promised to lie down in entrance of the bulldozers to cease Heathrow’s third runway ever being constructed. Thankfully fo
Boris Johnson as soon as promised to lie down in entrance of the bulldozers to cease Heathrow’s third runway ever being constructed. Thankfully for the Prime Minister, it now appears that he may not should. The airport’s growth plans have been thrown into doubt this morning after opponents received a authorized combat in opposition to a brand new runway at Britain’s greatest airport.
The Court docket of Enchantment agreed with campaigners that then-transport secretary Chris Grayling ignored air high quality and noise air pollution issues when he gave the undertaking the inexperienced gentle in 2018. It now falls to Boris Johnson to attraction the ruling. However, after all, given his earlier guarantees – and his fears about breaking these and dropping voters’ belief – that is one thing he won’t do.
This doesn’t imply that Heathrow received’t ever be expanded. The judges who made the ruling stated a 3rd runway could possibly be constructed sooner or later, as long as the Authorities’s commitments to coping with local weather change are considered. However for now there can be no new runway. This can be a big victory for the campaigners, environmental teams, councils and Sadiq Khan who introduced the case. And it’s additionally an enormous reduction to Boris Johnson, who can keep away from an embarrassing confrontation with the bulldozers.