ideal location for Heathrow airport

[Anthony Appleyard]

It is to be wondered what would have happen if plans to start Heathrow Airport in 1944 had failed, and it had to start after the war and to wallow through years of planning applications, and public enquiry, and difficulty getting hold of the land needed, and demands to preserve listed buildings (9 of them in Heathrow village, and likely some on the old complete Hatton Road) (see Heathrow (hamlet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), and pressure from the farming and market gardening lobby not to build on Grade A farmland, and suchlike.

A diffculty with having an airport too handily close to the city is the airport being reached and hemmed in by suburbs so it can't enlarge. This happened to Croydon Airport
Croydon Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(which started as two adjacent airfields, which joined into one).

I read that near London before WWII, before the airline compaines had thought of Heathrow, there were plans to enlarge RAF Heston into London's main new airport, and a newspaper published this and said that the airport builders should "hurry up and get on with the job, or the land that you need will be built over by suburb first".
Heston Aerodrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Prophead]

Heathrow is in the correct place. Its all the NIMBY's that moved to the wrong location.

[DaveReidUK]

Heathrow is in the correct place. Its all the NIMBY's that moved to the wrong location.

Heathrow is in the correct place. Its just Greater London that isn't.

[Rollingthunder]

Bottom 7 floors for immigration control...can be parked beside HMS Ocean

[TurboTomato]

That'll be interesting when there's a overrun or serious runway excursion then.

[TurboTomato]

Heathrow is in the correct place. Its all the NIMBY's that moved to the wrong location.

I'd put money on these people being the same ones that are quite happy to complain when their flights in and out of the SE are delayed.

[The SSK]

Can anyone help me remember the name of that greenfield site in Buckinghamshire which was proposed as the new London Airport, probably in the 70s (it briefly became flavour of the month when Maplin fell out of favour, IIRC)?

[lederhosen]

Wing was the location in Buckinghamshire. I remember it because I landed out there in a glider on a cross country flight in the seventies. The locals were not terribly friendly. I can remember the remains of the wartime airfield were still very visible, so I would not call it quite green field, although it had definitely returned to agricultural use.

[diginagain]

The vessel pictured in Rollingthunder's post is incorrectly named. Surely it should be 'FREEDOM SHOP'?

[Piltdown Man]

Wing (Bucks.) was one of the places being considered for the site of London's third airport. That is before LCY was built and everyone else started calling themselves "London". But the ideal place for London's next airport is not in Britain. Nobody in Britain is prepared to spend enough, there are too many NIMBY's and banks won't get a return in their required three month maximum. And in case nobody has noticed, the government have run out of cash. So London is screwed. But does anybody care? Fortunately is won't be fixed before I retire.

PM

[xtypeman]

Also seem to remember the name Cublington as a potential site as well.

[DaveReidUK]

Wing aka Cublington.

[Gulf4uk]

Blackbushe Eglk

BLACKBUSHE (EGLK) Had most of facility's needed and was used by many Airlines before they Closed it . Its still a great Airfield but Sadly neglected apart from the remaining bit but the Common area is no more than a dump.
Nimbys Galore there and a very Anti anything council .
loads of pictures in the threads of Aircraft using it .


Tony

[Anthony Appleyard]

Piltdown Man wrote:-
> Wing (Bucks.) was one of the places being considered for the site of
> London's third airport ...

This name does not refer to flying. See:-

Wing, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[DaveReidUK]

Piltdown Man wrote:-
> Wing (Bucks.) was one of the places being considered for the site of
> London's third airport ...

This name does not refer to flying. See:-

Wing, Buckinghamshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think you may have hit upon the ideal criterion for locating London's new hub airport, Anthony.

With that in mind, I'd like to suggest the following sites:

Sheeplane, Beds
Grafton Flyford, Herefs & Worcs
Little Paxton, Cambs