HAL sent out 3,500 letters to either occupiers/land owners/land registry details etc as preliminary notice of Compulsory Orders for land and property etc, on 3rd January 2017.
This includes 750 dwellings, and at least 300 acres of land to be used for spoil/access.
Separately, a High Court judge dismissed an application for local boroughs to proceed at this time with a Judicial review.
The planning appeal decision ** - 18 months in waiting - for full departures ops on 09L now to come in the National Planning statement.
** This should not have occurred as it was a separate matter altogether and pre dates R3.