third runway

The government’s announcement last week that Heathrow’s third runway would be axed has rather spoiled the competition launched by Greenpeace last year to come up with a design that would thwart the project. Still, the competition winners were announced this week, and the effort by …

Well, that didn’t take long then: Britain’s new coalition government (let’s call them the Torycrats) has moved swiftly to announce that the third runway project at Heathrow airport has been cancelled. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats made the promise to scrap the project …

Image / Route79 Campaigners against a third runway at Heathrow emerged victorious this morning at the High Court, when Lord Justice Carnwath ruled that the Government’s decision to approve the project was “untenable”. A coaltion of local authorities, Greenpeace, and the Campaign to Protect Rural …

The Mayor of Camden is having a bad day. The great Sipson divide: third runway or no, the damage is already done. Waterloo Bridge is in a bit of a two and eight. Stop and search is seemingly not doing its job properly. Fie upon …

Photo by Simon K All the celeb-fingered protests and pie-high poodlings about island airports doesn’t change the fact that, as things stand (at least until the Tories sort out their message on the subject), Heathrow’s third runway and a new terminal to serve it are …

Image by Matt from London from the Londonist Flickr pool Boris Island! He likes it! He likes it not! He likes it! Oh, we feel dizzy and in need of a sit down and a cup of tea. Barely weeks after telling the GLA Transport …

Image / Route79 By chance or design, two reports released today advocate, respectively, the building of a new island airport and the expansion of Heathrow. The British Chamber of Commerce made the sure-to-be-unpopular boast that a third runway at Heathrow would pack an additional £30 …

Third runway campaigners take note: the issue seems to be resolving itself. Looks like Kylie might have found Senor Right. Tower Hamlets is begging for funds to revamp its Ocean Estate. Hackney dwellers are now able to ‘suggest tasks’ for ‘community servers’. The British Library …

Heath Row, 1805 Two hundred years ago, the sleepy farming village of Heath Row probably attracted around 100 visitors per year, most of them sheep. Today, 61 million people pass through each year—more than the entire UK population. The enormous changes to this part of …

Londonist’s robust plan to increase capacity at Heathrow without an added runway. Yes, it’s all over the news. Heathrow Airport will get its third runway, the most controversial strip since Janet Jackson at the Superbowl. Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon announced the plans about an hour …