The ‘Residents of Summerhouse Lane’ group from Harmondsworth (a village which will be impacted by Heathrow’s new runway) submitted a petition to Downing Street yesterday calling on the Government to provide certainty, fairness and the chance to get on with their lives without further delays.

Supporters of Heathrow expansion descended on Kingston Bridge to tell Kingston and Richmond Councils: ‘You don’t speak for me, you have ignored my voice!’ after both councils (along with Sutton, Hillingdon, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wandsworth and Southwark) wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport, claiming they represent the views of over 1.7 million residents who oppose a third runway at Heathrow.

68% of local people back a third runway, says the Back Heathrow campaign.

Back Heathrow (the campaign to build the new runway) welcomes the release of a survey revealing that 68% of residents living in neighbouring communities to the airport support a third runway. The key drivers are jobs (backed by 77% of residents) and benefits to the local economy (cited by 50%).

Support for a third runway continues to grow amongst ReformUK grassroots, ahead of the London elections. On Friday 27th March, over 40 Reform activists from across London joined the Back Heathrow campaign for a presentation on the plans for Europe’s biggest infrastructure project – Heathrow’s third runway.

Surrey’s Reform UK activists are backing plans for a new runway at Heathrow. This came just 24 hours after Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick MP said (with regards to delayed major infrastructure projects): “If this Government fails, and continues to fail, Reform UK will pass emergency legislation to build a third runway at Heathrow.”

The decision today by the government to ask Heathrow to build a new runway has been welcomed by campaign group ‘Back Heathrow’ which represents over 100,000 local people who have been calling for growth and jobs with expansion for the past decade.