The Secretary of Transportation Heidi Alexander has approved the Secretary of Transportation, Heidi Alexander.
In the private project financed, West Sussex airport will move its emergency track to 12 meters to the north, allowing it to be used for narrow body airplanes such as Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
This will allow it to be used for about 100,000 more flights a year.
Mrs. Alexander supported the scheme as an “obvious” for economic growth, a government source said, suggesting that flights could take off from the new full track before 2029.
The cabinet minister is satisfied with the adjustments made, covering problems such as noise mitigation and the proportion of passengers who would travel to and from the airport by public transport.
It occurs after the planning inspection initially rejected the airport application has already recommended that Mrs. Alexander should approve the project if the changes were made.
The new commitments include Gatwick Management that establishes its own objectives for the proportion of passengers traveling to the airport by public transport, instead of a legally binding objective.
Residents affected by more noise can ask Gatwick to cover the costs of triple glaze windows.
Housing owners living directly below the new flight routes they choose to sell could have their timbre tax and reasonable movements paid, as well as real estate agents rates of up to 1% of the purchase price.
Gatwick says that their plans will create £ 1 billion per year in economic benefits and generate 14,000 additional jobs.
A government source told the AP news agency: “The Secretary of Transportation has eliminated Gatwick's expansion for takeoff.
“With capacity limitations stopping business, commerce and tourism, this is obvious to growth.
“This government has taken unprecedented measures to do this, navigating an unnecessarily complex planning system, which our reforms will simplify in the future.
“It is possible that the airplanes take off from a new full track in Gatwick before the next general elections.
“Any expansion of the airport must be delivered in line with our legally binding commitments of climate change and complying with strict environmental requirements.”
Local activists opposed to expansion are concerned about the impact on surface transport, noise, housing provision and wastewater treatment, but the airport insists that it has performed “complete and complete evaluations” of those problems.
Cagne, a communication group and aviation environment umbrella for Sussex, Surrey and Kent, said it is ready to fulfill a judicial review funded by residents and environmental organizations.
The group said: “We know that this Government cares little about the environmental impact that aviation is having on our planet and the residents of Gatwick, but not demanding that Gatwick pays for infrastructure, the wastewater treatment plant on the site, and the impact of noise is illegal in our book.”
The support of the Labor Government of a third track at Heathrow Airport in its attempt to grow the economy has also received criticism from environmental and opposition political groups.
The leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, described the support of the ministers of a second Gatwick track as a “disaster.”
He said in a statement: “Ignore basic climate science and run the risk of undermining efforts to address the climatic crisis.
“The work continues without launching the same nonsense about growth, but at what cost? What this really means is more pollution, more noise for local communities and no real economic benefit.”
Stewart Wingate, Managing Director of Vinci Airports for the United Kingdom and former executive director of Gatwick, said: “After a long and rigorous planning process, we welcome the government of the plans to take our North track to the use of routine, before the expected deadline.
“This is another important entrance door in the planning process for this investment of £ 2.2 billion, which is fully financed by our shareholders and will unlock important benefits of growth, tourism and commerce for London Gatwick and the United Kingdom and will create thousands of jobs.
“As we have said before, it is essential that any planning condition allows us to obtain all the benefits of the project and not impose unnecessary restrictions that are not economical to invest.
“Now we need to carefully examine the details of the planning consent. Once we have done it, we can comment more.”
