Instead of only pushing to expand Stansted, it has emerged that the government is planning to launch a new study into “identifying solutions that would allow” a third runway to be built at Heathrow Airport. The information was revealed in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s most recent pre-Budget Report and confirmed by aviation minister Karen Buck. Already local action groups like HACAN and the Richmond Council are speaking out against it.

To read more detail see:

• Fury greets new plan for Heathrow expansion, The Observer, 31 December 2005
• Battles ensues over third runway, The Richmond & Twickenham Times, 6 January 2006