Wino:
Yeah because Im sure BAA will just sell one of the world's most commercially successful airports for housing!
Have you never heard of a compulsory purchase order?
Jabird:
Fantasy Island cannot be built without shutting down its competitors, therefore it cannot be built. End of discussion.
Which is exactly why it WILL be built. What developer could not resist getting their hands on the most valuable piece of real-estate in Britain.
Jabird:
Remember that however much you dislike c. and d, they are still better options than fantasy island because any capacity added there (and of course at LHR) is a direct add and on dry land.
You are rather forgetting that one of the MAIN attractions of Silver-Boris, is that it is NOT on dry land. The UK is, thanks to the efforts of New Labour to bury the UK under 500 million people, the most densely populated nation in Europe.
We NEED landspace, and the relocation of LHR will not only give us extra landspace, it will place much of the noise nuisance of Europe's biggest airport out in the estuary. That is not a drawback, it is a selling-point. And throwing sand up to make the world's biggest sand-castle is hardly an engineering challenge - in fact, it is probably the easiest and cheapest part of the whole construction project.
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