Originally Posted by
Navpi
The airports vote has been pencilled in for Monday 25 June but Chris Grayling faces more trouble over yet another cock-up. DAC Beachcroft, legal advisers to the Heathrow Hub consortium proposing an extended runway at Heathrow, have today indicated that they will challenge the DfT’s National Policy Statement. They say it wrongly calculated the capacity of the extended runway option after a mistake by the Airports Commission (dating back before Grayling was Transport Secretary), thus erroneously finding the 3rd runway option had a higher capacity. This was one of the principal reasons why the extended runway was rejected.
But by no means the only one.
Other reasons were:
a The safety case for the extended runway option was unproven
b There was almost no possibility of meaningful runway alternation, which would have made it politically and environmentally unacceptable.
I'm amazed that Heathrow Hub haven't just packed up and gone home. A JR is going to cost them a small fortune and the outcome is entirely predictable.