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Gatwick plans 'crazy'
7:30am Tuesday 31st October 2006
Campaigners against plans to build a second runway at Gatwick have branded the proposals crazy and irresponsible.
Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC) said it would ask BAA to withdraw its plan in the light of growing concern about climate change.
BAA has published an interim master plan for the airport, following public consultation.
It remained committed to an agreement not to build a new runway before 2019.
The interim master plan replaces the outline proposal, originally published in March 2005, which said the new runway would only go ahead if a planned third runway at Heathrow failed to be developed by about 2015.
The new plan is substantially similar, according to BAA, and estimates 40 million passengers a year will be using Gatwick by 2015.
It then considers two scenarios for 2030 - one with a single runway and another with the second runway in place.
BAA has said its final master plan will be updated to reflect the outcome of a number of local studies, including the Crawley Local Development Framework and the future of the Gatwick Express rail service.
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In this section
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- Fight against new Gatwick runway is stepped up
- Relief as Gatwick avoids new runway
- August 1, 2006: Airport expansion looking less likely
- Gatwick runway warning
- MP attacks runway plan
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