Gatwick draft masterplan consultation receives lots of responses
02.02.12
Concerns about aircraft noise and the impact of extra passengers on roads and railways topped responses to Gatwick Airport's draft master plan consultation. The three-month public consultation on the plan setting out the airport's vision for the future up to 2020 has now closed. The exercise, the largest and most extensive to be held by Gatwick to date, saw more than 1,700 attend 24 consultation sessions. There were 267 official responses.
Stewart Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick Airport, said: ‘The level of response and participation from members of the local community has been encouraging, and people are, by and large, supportive of our plans to grow to 40 million passengers per year on our single-runway, two-terminal airport.’
‘An initial review of the responses indicates that, uppermost on people's minds, are concerns about the impacts that achieving this growth may have on the road and rail network, and whether growth will lead to more aircraft noise. Our draft master plan looked at those very issues and how they can be managed, and we will certainly take a further look at these and other issues brought to our attention.’
‘A more detailed analysis of the responses will now be undertaken, and in February a further document will be published outlining in more detail what the key feedback to the draft master plan was. By June, we plan to publish its final master plan document that will show, where possible, how it has taken into account the views and opinions expressed by the local community and its stakeholders.’
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