📋 Tender Overview
ScopeHeathrow Airport has launched its largest ever consultation as part of its masterplan for expansion. It proposes the airports approach in phases with the new runway to be constructed in the first phase by 2026. The rest of the airport infrastructure including new terminals will be completed by around 2050. The consultation is seeking feedback on plans to operate Heathrow and the impacts of the airports growth. The public can also provide their views on plans to manage the environmental impacts of expansion including a proposed Heathrow Ultra Low Emissions Zone Heathrow Vehicle Access Charge and a proposed 6.5-hour ban on scheduled night flights. In order to make the plans a reality Heathrow has invested in new technology including a physical model of the future airport with features such as augmented reality sound booths to demonstrate the effect of noise insulation on properties overflown by aircraft. Expansion must not come at any cost. That is why we have been working with partners at the airport in local communities and in Government to ensure our plans show how we can grow sustainably and responsibly with environmental considerations at the heart of expansion. This consultation is an opportunity for people to have their say on our preferred masterplan so its really important that as many people as possible take part. We look forward to hearing your views. This statutory consultation follows Heathrows Airspace and Future Operations Consultation held earlier this year. It will inform the airports Development Consent Order application which is expected to be submitted in 2020. The Heathrow expansion is expected to deliver new domestic routes and create new opportunities for businesses across the UK. The expansion of Heathrow Airport is a series of proposals to add to the runways at Londons busiest airport beyond its two long runways which are intensively used to serve four terminals and a large cargo operation. The plans are those presented by Heathrow Airport Holdings and an independent proposal by Heathrow Hub with the main object of increasing capacity. In early December 2006 the Department for Transport published a progress report on the strategy which confirmed the original vision of expanding the runways. In November 2007 the government started a public consultation on its proposal for a slightly shorter third runway 2000 metres 6560 ft and a new passenger terminal. The plan was publicly supported by many businesses the aviation industry the British Chambers of Commerce the Confederation of British Industry the Trades Union Congress and the then Labour government. It was publicly opposed by Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties as opposition parties and then as a coalition government by Boris Johnson then Mayor of London many environmental local advocacy groups and prominent individuals. Although the expansion was cancelled on 12 May 2010 by the new coalition government the Airport Commi
