Decision details

RESOLVED:

1.    That the statutory Gatwick airport northern runway consultation response attached at Annex 1 is approved by Cabinet.

Reason for Decisions:

The consultation response considers the potential impacts of GAL’s scheme on SCC services and Surrey residents and businesses and sets out key asks of GAL to enable the likely effects to be fully understood.

In considering airport expansion in principle, the council has been consistent in emphasising that environmental and infrastructure issues must be satisfactorily addressed. Many of the comments made within the response reiterate concerns raised at both a political and officer level during consultation in 2018 on GAL’s Airport Master Plan, which first proposed bringing the Northern Runway into routine use as one of its scenarios for future growth.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Communities, Environment and Highways Select Committee)