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w w w. h i l l i n g d o n . g o v. u k News from your council
Heathrow consultation special
Say NO to
Heathrow expansion
Ways to The human face How the expansion Focus on loss of homes,
say ‘NO!’ of the fight will affect you more noise and more pollution
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section
elcome to this
W special edition of
Hillingdon People,
which we have published as
part of our campaign to raise
awareness about the impact
Heathrow consultation special of the proposed third runway
at Heathrow Airport.
If the third runway is built, as well as the
3 General council news devastating effect on those who will lose their homes
and schools, the increased levels of air pollution and
traffic, two million people (ten times the current
number) will be affected by aircraft noise.
The council’s position (with all party support) is
that the expansion of Heathrow will decimate villages
in the south of our borough, which is also an area of
4 What is happening? local heritage, and produce an estimated additional
three million tonnes of CO2 emissions every year
which will have a direct effect on the health of those
left living around the expanded airport.
However, the impacts on our borough and on our
residents will be much wider than just those parts of
Hillingdon around the airport. In the north of the
borough in areas such as Ickenham, Ruislip, Eastcote
6 What expansion will mean for homes, and Harefield, we will see increases in air traffic, noise
pollution and noise levels and pollution. In other parts of Hillingdon we will
see increases in traffic and across the whole borough,
with more people arriving in Hillingdon through the
airport, we may see an increase in demand for our
services, to the detriment of local people.
This is a special edition of Hillingdon People. This is why we are taking such a strong view on
The regular Hillingdon People the proposals and why I would ask all residents,
will resume at the start of March. whichever part of our borough you live in, to take
part in the consultation and register your opposition
After reading, please recycle this magazine to the proposal.
Some have said that the economic benefits
outweigh the environmental issues. Of course the
Editorial enquiries airport brings national economic benefits and we are
Hannah Collins 01895 250828 not opposed to air travel, but in an already crowded
hillingdonpeople@hillingdon.gov.uk area with such a high number of homes, there is no
room for Heathrow to increase in size. At the
Advertising enquiries moment, on balance, Heathrow is a financial liability
Lynette Jones 01895 250575 for the people of Hillingdon and expansion would
hpadverts@hillingdon.gov.uk increase this burden and could result in higher
Published by London Borough of Hillingdon © 2008 Council Tax or diminished services.
Design Phil Burton 01895 250670 Printed by The Print Factory The consultation documents are so complicated
Hillingdon People, 3E/07 Civic Centre,
High Street, Uxbridge, UB8 1UW. that the council, working closely with NoTRAG (the
Products and services advertised in this magazine residents group set up to oppose the third runway) and
are not necessarily endorsed by the council.
the 2M group (which represents the 12 local authorities,
covering two million people who will be affected by
the third runway) and our local MPs, has produced its
own, simpler response card so that people have the
chance to make their views known to government.
This special edition of Hillingdon People sets out
some of the details of what is being proposed and
how you can have your say. I urge all residents to
make your voice heard and say no to any further
expansion at Heathrow.
For a copy in large print or on
tape, call 01895 277834 Cllr Ray Puddifoot, Leader of the Council
2• Heathrow Special
general council news
Apple reward for school design inbrief
PHOTO COURTESY OF GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS
A ‘playful’ school design has
won the council an award. Dog owners
The design encouraged to be
achievements of Ruislip more responsible
High School in Sidmouth Dog owners are
Drive, has won the reminded of new control
Green Apple award for orders introduced by the
the council. council in January.
The ‘Built Environment Anyone not complying
and Architectural Heritage with the following may
Award’ was presented for receive a fixed penalty
the site by Professor notice or be taken to
David Bellamy OBE at the court:
House of Commons. cylindrical corner building prestigious design award Dogs must not foul in
Judges said: and transparent access for the council’s efforts to any part of the borough
“Environmentally friendly point leading to a three- create a sustainable and where the public has
materials and techniques storey atrium. It is truly truly inspiring learning access (certain blind and
help the building to an innovative and environment. We feel disabled people are
integrate into the practical structure.” that our continuous exempt); Dogs must be
landscape.The design is Margaret Gustafsson, drive for high quality kept on a lead within
described as playful and Principal Urban Design design has really achieved three metres of any road
environmentally Consultant, said: “We are this, and are extremely where there are moving
conscious with a central so pleased that Hillingdon proud of the result in vehicles.This does not
lecture theatre, a Council wins this Ruislip High School.” include parks, open
spaces, river
Cash to Celebrate Centenary embankments, canal
towpaths etc.; Nuisance
dogs must be kept on a
lead when an authorised
officer asks.
The new orders are in
line with national initiatives
to encourage responsible
dog ownership.
For more information
call 01895 250155 or
e-mail envhealth-
epu@hillingdon.gov.uk
Outstanding
schools recognised
Several schools in the
Scouts came from groups across the borough to celebrate a £1,000 donation from borough have been
the council to mark their centenary. singled out for excellent
Ofsted inspections
Older people encouraged to sign up for throughout the year.
Ofsted inspectors visit
special parking spaces schools and educational
providers to see how well
Older drivers are bays in several council to pay and display they are providing services
encouraged to sign up owned car parks across machines.Those wishing for children.Ten schools
for a parking badge, the borough. to use the bays will need were given the highest
which will give them The designated bays to display a Brown Badge rating of ‘outstanding’.
access to parking will be close to exits and, and pay at the machine
spaces just for them. where possible, nearest as normal.
The over 65s can apply
for a Brown Badge so Contacts
they can park in specific
To apply for a badge or for more information contact
Chris Barton on 01895 250 926 or visit
www.hillingdon.gov.uk/parking
Heathrow Special •3
heathrow expansion
What is ha
The government is consulting on proposals to make more use of
Heathrow airport. The proposals include building a third runway
an additional passenger terminal and increasing the number of
flights using the other two runways.
The human face
The latest proposals are for a third runways could be used for take offs
of the fight
runway north of the A4 with and landings at the same time. Geraldine
passenger terminals and links to The council is urging people to Nicholson is
road and rail services. More than join the campaign against further Chairwoman of the
700 homes in Sipson would have to expansion at the airport, along No Third Runway
be demolished to make way for the with residents’ action groups Action Group
runway and there would be more NoTRAG and other councils in (NoTRAG), formed
pollution in the borough. the 2M group. in 2002 to
Plans to make increased use of You can register your views in represent residents across
the existing runways would also several ways, detailed below, with the Hillingdon who do not want to see
result in more noise as both deadline at the end of the month. Heathrow expanded. She is
encouraging all residents to take
part in the consultation because
Five ways to say ‘NO!’ expansion will affect everyone in
the borough, regardless of where
they live.
NO
SAY for free Geraldine said: “It doesn’t matter
Show your support for the campaign by returning the who you are, young or old, there is
response card sent to every house in the borough by the nowhere in this borough you can
council to the FREEPOST address by February 15 and escape the effects of the Heathrow
we will forward this to the government. expansion. After six years I still can’t
make sense of how anyone dare
NO
SAY locally contemplate such devastation.
Write to your local councillor at: Civic Centre, High “People across the borough need
Street, Uxbridge, UB8 1UW. to understand while they won’t all
find themselves under a flight path,
schools, roads, health services, and
housing will be severely affected.
NO
The north of the borough will have
SAY nationally more flights and more noise. It has
Write to your local Member of Parliament at the
House of Commons. been steadily increasing, I have
certainly noticed that when I have
been in the north of the borough.”
She explained the demolition of
houses in Sipson would affect
NO
SAY in public everywhere in the borough,
Attend a public meeting about the expansion at 7pm including areas which currently do
on January 31 at the Civic Centre. not suffer the effects of the airport:
“Closing just one school and the
severe detrimental impact on three
others puts pressure on schools in
NO
SAY on your own the north of the borough as there is
Be imaginative. Say ‘no’ in your own unique way like nowhere to build new schools here.
making a poster and displaying it in your window. See “700 homes will be demolished;
the back page. putting pressure on housing, the rest
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heathrow expansion
appening? How will the expansion affect you?
of us won’t want to be here either.
Health services will be overburdened,
there has been no health impact
assessment undertaken.
“The southern parts of West
Drayton and Hayes will have
increased noise and pollution, the
proposal is for an extension
equalling Gatwick in size, bringing
the new airport to within metres of
thousands of homes.” Harlington • The loss of runway alternation on
She added there would be an • Severe noise from landings and the two existing runways would
extra 23 million cars on the roads take-offs overhead at third runway. lead to more aircraft overhead
and these would use local roads to • Noise from take-offs on the when the airport is operating on
access a new 10,000 space car existing north runway when the westerly runways.
park, while the M4 spur would airport is operating on easterly
come so close to gardens in runways as a result of ending the Sipson
Harlington she felt around 400 Cranford agreement restricting • Destruction of an entire village to
homes would be uninhabitable. departures from this runway. make way for third runway.
Plans to abolish the Cranford
Fact file
Agreement would mean Longford Harmondsworth
and Cranford Cross no longer get • The village will be surrounded by
any peace during the day. the airport.
Geraldine is also concerned the • Severe noise from landings and • One in three people using
runway would not stay at 2,500m take-offs at third runway Heathrow never leave the airport,
long as the short runway would they are simply changing flights.
only cater for 70% of the demand Longford • One in five flights made are short
and will not fulfil the airport’s needs. • Severe noise from aircraft on the haul and could be made by rail.
She said the report compiled by ground getting ready to take off • Only around 40% of passengers
NATS (National Air Traffic Services) from the north runway to the using the airport are business
raised issues relating to how the east. Residents are currently travellers.
third runway would work in protected from this activity by
relation to flights in and out of the the Cranford agreement. • The consultation document says
the extra flights could generate up
London airport network, including • The loss of runway alternation to 53.4 million road users by 2030,
RAF Northolt. NATS states more would mean aircraft taking off twice the number we have now.
research needs to take place. overhead on the north runway
Geraldine’s final comment was for a much bigger part of the day • The proposal would increase the
that the government’s economic when the airport is operating on movements in and out of the
airport from 480,000 to 702,000
case has not been proved. It is westery runways - there would by 2030, the equivalent of building
predicted operational be no changeover at 3pm. a new airport the size of Gatwick.
improvements would mean 9,000
jobs are lost in the first ten years of Ruislip, Northwood • An extra 60,000 flights a year
a new runway becoming and Harefield could be fitted in if runway
operational. A London Chamber of • The third runway would mean alternation was ended, which
would mean residents living
Commerce survey from 2006 more aircraft flying overhead on under flight paths would no
showed 78% of companies were their approach when the airport longer have less noise when the
against the expansion of Heathrow. is operating on easterly runways. runways alternate at 3pm.
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heathrow expansion
Focus on...
Focus on... homes extended, and Harlington would be Heritage sites are also at risk,
More than 700 homes in Sipson surrounded on three sides by the along with acres of green belt land
will be demolished if the plans go airport.There could also be a major and nature conservation areas.
ahead.This is in addition to a road through Cherry Lane cemetery. Four grade two listed buildings
school and churches and will mean The various villages in the area will be within the area to be
a whole community is wiped off rely on each other and the loss of demolished. Around 22% of the
the map. Sipson could leave other Harmondsworth Conservation
Around 3,000 people would lose communities without vital amenities. Area will be lost if the buildings
their homes, with many of them The remaining villages would be go ahead.
having lived in them all their lives. surrounded by the airport with long The expansion area covers one
Several buildings of historic interest, established roads and footpaths scheduled ancient monument, the
among them an ancient church being demolished, cutting them off. 14th century tithe barn in
dating to the 11th century, will be Many houses will be left on the Harmondsworth, and another three
under concrete if the runway is edge of the airport.They will be are in the wider corridor.The site is
given the go-ahead. offered no compensation but the also an area of high archaeological
William Byrd School will be at the quality of life for the residents will activity and there are 102 listed
eastern end of the runway if it is be greatly reduced because of the buildings in the area looked at in
built and could be demolished if it is presence of the enlarged airport. the consultation document.
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The two lowest decibel levels (yellow) are deemed to be ‘acceptable’ by the government.
The map shows how much noise there is that is louder than the acceptable levels.
Focus on... noise The consultation uses data Heathrow on public transport,
Increased noise is one of the key suggesting people get annoyed at which will reduce the numbers of
arguments against the expansion of 57 decibels but a new study people in their own cars on the
the airport.The extra runway suggests the level has reduced to roads.The consultation document
would mean new flight paths, which 50 decibles, meaning more than predicts there could be up to
would mean areas of the borough two million people will be in the 53.4million road users by 2030,
which have been unaffected by the area affected by Heathrow noise, twice the number there are now.
airport would now be. ten times the current number. Targets for reducing carbon
At the moment, 70% of flights in The new ‘footprint’ for people will emissions and climate change
to and out of Heathrow are into cover most of the borough and would appear to be in direct
prevailing winds, which tend to be stretch from Slough and Maidenhead competition with the desire to
from the west or south west.This in the west to Battersea and expand at Heathrow.There has
means planes going into the airport Clapham Common in the east. been no assessment of how the
approach from the east and take The Cranford Agreement, which extra CO2 emissions produced
off into the west (westerly). was signed by ministers in 1952, through the third runway will affect
Overnight there is alternation means take offs to the east from the the climate.
between the westerly and easterly northern runway are generally not Greenpeace has estimated an
flightpaths to give residents some allowed.This means people living in additional three million tonnes of
respite, an agreement signed in Cranford, at the end of the runway, CO2 will be produced by the
1952, to reduce the disruption to are protected against take off noise. runway, the equivalent to the entire
residents at the end of the runway. If this were to be removed, residents emissions output of Kenya. Aviation
The third runway would mean would have the noise of aeroplanes accounts for 13% of all climate
more flights over the north of the throughout the day. change emissions in the UK but
borough when the airport is transport secretary Ruth Kelly, has
operating on easterlies. With
mixed modes (planes using both
Focus on... pollution said the pollution levels will stay
within EU legal limits.
runways) there would be easterly The environmental impact of Ending runway alternation would
departures on the north runway expansion is clear – more flights mean there is more nitrogen oxide
resulting in more noise in mean more pollution. air pollution over Longford.This
Longford and Harlington. The loss The extra flights also means more could increase by up to 5% but it
of runway alternation would people using the airport, which will would reduce the same gas by
mean there would be no quiet lead to increased traffic, meaning similar levels in areas to the east of
periods for residents in these more emissions from cars.The DfT the area.
areas. Areas in the south of the consultation relies on new planes Longer commutes could also
borough would also be overflown producing less emissions and new come from jobs created by the
and subject to air noise, while technology reducing the levels of expansion as there is relatively full
areas near the proposed sixth carbon produced by vehicles. employment in the immediate area
terminal would also be subject to The government is also hoping meaning employees would have to
ground noise. more people will travel to travel further to get to their jobs.
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