ON JANUARY 10th 1946 the cabinet approved plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, west of London. Some 72 years later, and after more than a dozen commissions, reports and white papers on where to put it, the third runway remains unbuilt. The project moved a step closer on June 25th, when Parliament voted by 415 to 119 to build a new runway to the north-west of Heathrow. But a big problem could delay it still further: air pollution.
This topic matters, as the issue of emissions resulted in the High Court overturning a previous decision to build a third runway in 2010. In response to this week’s vote, four west London councils, the city’s mayor and Greenpeace, an environmental group, said they would apply for judicial review within six weeks. Ray Puddifoot, the leader of Hillingdon council, where the airport is located, thinks their case is even stronger than in 2010. “I’ve got no doubt that we will succeed,” he says.
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