Heathrow Airport’s expansion plans to cost £49bn, plans reveal

Heathrow Airport announced the details of the plan to expand and modernize the airport at a cost of £ 49 billion.

Heathrow Airport CEO CEO Thomas Woldbye said that the airport is currently “urgent” while the airport is currently working in capacity to work in capacity to “trade and connection”. The study will be financed by private finance.

The government supported plans for a third runway and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, “England will make the world’s most connected place to do business the most,” he said.

However, plans face opposition from environmental groups, politicians and natives. London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said that “noise, air pollution and climate change will have a serious impact on meeting our goals”.

Plans come after a day Dead of the Government For the parties to offer an offer.

The plans that Heathrow predicts will be completed in ten years includes:

• The creation of a third track called “North West runway”, which will be length of 3,500m (11,500 ft). Heathrow bosses say that this will increase the capacity as 756,000 flights per year and 150m passengers – – Currently serving approximately 84m
• A new terminal called T5X expands the terminal 2 and three new satellite terminals. Terminal would close 3
• Improvement of local railway connections, as well as walking and bicycle paths
• Determining the M25, which will include a new road tunnel under the airport and the expansion of the highway between 14-15 intersections
• Creation of two new Heathrow Parkway
• Improvements at Heathrow’s bus and ram stations

Heathrow, while building the new terminal, said that the construction of the third runway, including the modernization of 15 billion pounds of modernizing the infrastructure of the existing airport, will cost £ 21 billion costs, while building the new terminal, M25 and other relevant infrastructure costs. Due to the rounding, it will be £ 49 billion.

A spokesman added that plans will increase the UK economy by 0.43% GDP.

Heathrow’s plans were welcomed by business groups and airline companies.

A joint statement from the British Industry Confederation, British Chambers of Commerce, Makeuk, Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Management, said that this is “an investment in the future of the country”.

“Benefits are clear: For exporters, it opens vital access to large and developing markets; it improves global and domestic connection for visitors and opens billions of locks in private investments for businesses, strengthens supply chains, creates business and country.”

Businessldn General Manager John Dickie said that while the airport is currently working at full capacity, the expansion will “better connect to overseas markets and support the growth of England.”

The authority added that the government will help the UK will help to achieve 50 million international visitors targets annually.

Mr. Woldbye, Heathrow’s presentation is that the aviation industry is suitable for the goal of being a net zero by 2050.

He added that Heathrow was “airport in the world with the highest purchase of the sustainable aviation fuel” and that the planning permission will not be given by the government unless the legal emission limits are complied with.

However, plans have been greatly criticized by groups that call environmental reasons for plans as “Hopeful Marketing Return”.

Greenpeace UK Policy Director D Douglas Parr said that the government “decided to give priority to more free time for a relatively small brochure group again, and the rest of us have to live with the results of disproportionate pollution.”

He suggested “frequent brochures” and said that no expansion should be realized until the “pollution problem” was a solution.

His concerns were repeated by politicians, including Sir Sadiq, who said that hundreds of thousands of additional flights would not have a “extremely harmful” effect every year.

Authority, the impact of the extension of the city hall on people living in the region and “the impact of a comprehensive and costly plan for our transport infrastructure” on the “carefully examine” on the “he added.

A liberal democratic spokesman said: “Heathrow already said that the largest pollutant and climate change committee itself will risk England’s climate targets.

“It is clear that we cannot trust the silver bullet of sustainable aviation fuels to save the day.”

Green Party leader Zack Polandski said the environmental impact of plans was given “whatever”.

“If Labour’s environmental commitments were worth the paper they wrote, these offers would never have seen the daylight,” he said.

In Harmondsworth, local residents living near the airport, He told BBC earlier this year If a third runway continued, one third of the village would disappear.

Heathrow’s plans Publication of the opponent’s offer Arara Group, which summarizes a way to expand the airport without the need to re -guide the M25.

Hotel Tycoon Surinder Arara, the owner of the group, said that the creation of a third runway and a new terminal under their plans has a cost estimation of less than £ 25 billion, including the redevelopment of the current central area of the airport.

The proposal does not include an expensive change in M25, because the group said it was possible to build a third runway at a full length of 3,500 meters (11,500 ft) planned at the airport.

ARORA GROUP, the so -called Heathrow West plan can be completely operational by 2035, in 2036 and 2040 a new terminal will be opened in two stages, he said.

When asked for the additional cost of changing the M25 to adapt to a new, third runway, heathrow’s CEO, “All the conversation about the M25 was a bit exaggerated” and the degradation of the drivers would be minimum.

“We will build a new and much better M25, 100m (330 FT) in the west of the present. We will be wider and safer and will have more capacity.”

He said that the plans to create a much shortest runway to avoid moving M25, as suggested by the Aurora group, would not “provide the capacity of us and the airlines needed”, but if the airport can provide the same benefits, a shorter runway would be open to a discussion with airlines.

Transportation Secretary Heidi Alexander said that two proposals were “an important step to unlock growth, create business and provide vital national infrastructure”.

“We will carefully handle offers during the summer, so we can start a review. Airports National Policy Declaration Later this year, “he added.

BBC London’s political editor Karl Mercer said: “History, to plan to build a third runway, even though the color government comes to power, even though.

“Gordon Brown’s Labor Party Government supported Heathrow expansion in 2009 – This did not happen.

“At that time, during the reign of Conservative Theresa May 2018, the deputies voted Supporting an overwhelming way – For just a series Court difficulties And then Covid to put an end to these plans.

“There are many deputies in the capital who still opposed expansion in the capital – 28 voted last time and most of them are still at home.

“Only half of the war – the most difficult half of the war will be delivered.”