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Luton Airport expansion application due this autumn
By Laura Burge
Sunday, August 19, 2012
5:14 PM
A PLANNING application to double the number of people using Luton Airport will be submitted this autumn, after the airport owners and operators signed a deal this week.
Owners London Luton Airport Ltd (LLAL) and operators London Luton Airport Operations Ltd (LLAOL) announced earlier this summer that they would be looking to submit a joint plan to expand the airport.
Originally, both had announced separate proposals for airport expansion plans.
A contract was this week signed between the two, meaning that LLAOL will continue to manage, operate and develop the airport until 2031. A planning application will now be submitted this autumn.
But concerns remain from campaign groups and residents that the expansion would have a negative impact on neighbouring North Herts and Stevenage, as well as other areas in the county.
Hertfordshire Against Luton Expansion (HALE) co-founder Andrew Lambourne said: “These plans clearly demonstrate that all [they are] interested in is milking the airport for cash.
“Sustainability is about using natural resources more slowly than nature can replenish them in order to avoid environmental damage, not hastening the pace of depletion of fossil fuel and further increasing the massive carbon footprint of Luton Airport.”
A London Luton Airport consultative committee meeting was held earlier this week, but another campaign group has accused the airport of failing to listen to residents there.
John Davis, from Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (LADACAN), said “It’s unbelievable that the most serious
impact of these proposals – namely significantly increased noise over local communities around the airport – was not even mentioned.
“A flight leaving every 90 seconds would result in continuous noise over people’s heads starting at 6 in the morning – hardly the actions of a good neighbour.”
The operator and owner want to double the number of people using the airport annually from about nine million currently to 18 million.
They say that the work will take place within the existing boundary and using the existing runway.
Cllr Robin Harris, chairman of LLAL, said: “Given London Luton Airport’s position as the single biggest asset owned by the people of Luton, this agreement and its potential benefits for wealth in the region’s economy are momentous.
“LLAL is delighted at this step forward and at the benefits it will bring to London Luton Airport and to the region’s residents.”
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37 comments
what all of you fail to mention is, 1 traffic -you might expand the airport but where are the plans for road infrastructure? M1 jammed and Hitchin well do even get me started on traffic. 2- environment nothing in place to lower pollution which the country is obliged to do 3 & finally the noise. none of these issues have been addressed until then it will be objected because there is a blatant disregard for people who will be affected by this and will not benefit where’s my Olympic size pool?
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MR T
Friday, August 24, 2012
what all of you fail to mention is, 1 traffic -you might expand the airport but where are the plans for road infrastructure? M1 jammed and Hitchin well do even get me started on traffic. 2- environment nothing in place to lower pollution which the country is obliged to do 3 & finally the noise. none of these issues have been addressed until then it will be objected because there is a blatant disregard for people who will be affected by this and will not benefit where’s my Olympic size pool?
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MR T
Friday, August 24, 2012
Tell that to your buddy Barry, who seems to value spelling and grammar over a Pilots life...!
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Bob
Friday, August 24, 2012
'Bob'...what are you dribblin' on about? This is a discussion about Luton Airport expansion, not recent GCSE results.
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Bertie
Friday, August 24, 2012
Ahh I see your spelling and grammar 'gift' was at the expense of comprehension, still too out of tree ain't bad.Bye
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Bob
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Bob has gone mad.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Oh Bertie knows.. btw Barry the Comet story ----- Pilot hospitalised with ‘life-threatening’ injuries after Ashwell plane crash....and your only comment was --------- 'I’m amazed we didn’t here it.' Two so called writers and neither noticed? " --------- hardly a sign of sanity when you can't prioritise the headline --- Pilot hospitalised with 'life threatening' injuries --- over a SPELLING correction!!! ..Hope the pilots at Luton Airport have a short memory or you may have to wave at those A380's from the ground. Never mind I'm sure Bertie will send you a 'boastcard'
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Bob
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I think Bob's going mad.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I think Bob's going mad.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Yeeeeessssss (à la Paxo)... I was going to say even an Autocracy needs it's storm troopers, but when the 'parents' took a big chunk out of your botty you kinda blew that one Bertie...notice you didn't back him up then Barry!!! ..only when you think it's going your way eh boys (there's a word for that). I'll leave you two to get better aquainted...
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Bob
Thursday, August 23, 2012
That's interesting. Before I sent my last message, which appeared immediately, I sent one mentioning the name of one of the Comet's reporters who seems to run the campaign for the Comet, it didn't appear. Is this press censorship?
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I am a 'for'.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Apologies Barry. Looks like it's settled then, expansion it is!
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Bertie
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I am a 'for'.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Bertie, didn't abstain, never been asked for a vote. Put me down as a 'for'. By the way, I asked Laura Burge several times via this website whether she has ever used Luton Airport. Funny that she never replied.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Indeed 'Bob...we have all be down there supping on Grand Année Bollinger and awaiting for our bank accounts to overflow!
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Bertie
Thursday, August 23, 2012
So that's what been happening at LBC Town Hall..!!! ....A true Autocracy in action nicely demonstrated Bertie...thanks.
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Bob
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Well 'Bob' my sample size was 5, taken from various areas. FORS: Bertie, Lee Luton and Morganjeff. AGAINST: 'Bob'. ABSTAINING: Barry Denton MacLennan. The masses have spoken...let it be built!
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Bertie
Thursday, August 23, 2012
"From what I can make out most people are either happy with the expansion plans or not bothered."......Really how do you make that out? Taken a poll yourself? What was the sample size and demographics?
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Bob
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I am curious as to whyhow the Comet first got involved in this and why they decided upon a 'No to the Luton Expansion' campaign. Who at the Comet decided it should be a 'No'? From what I can make out most people are either happy with the expansion plans or not bothered. Perhaps I missed a poll which was shown in the paper or online.
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Bertie
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Hello Barry, come for a quick spell chk? In fact you've summed up LLAL and LBC's position perfectly. So much for due process....aka somebody pass me that brown envelope I can't quite reach it from here.
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Bob
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Oh stop arguing, it's going to happen whatever you say.
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Barry Denton-Maclennan
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Then why waste millions expanding an 'asset' for developers to make a quick buck on then leave us with a white elephant and no future for the area?
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Bob
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Well 'Bob', if "the car and plane are pretty much on their way out" as you so put, then you don't have to keep moaning about the Luton Airport expansion do you? According to you planes and cars won't exist soon so the airport will be closed and you will have you silent skies.
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Bertie
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Not particularly Morganjeff but unless you can come up with some miraculous method of making fossil fuels in the quantities required for these 30 MILLION passengers the car and plane are pretty much on their way out..and during that process they will become 'for the rich' only. .......So maybe instead of building bigger aiports LBC should look at attracting science funding to crack this age old problem that WON'T go away..no matter how much you want it to.
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Bob
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I guess you will be happy then while the country is depressed at the thought of holidays in Blackpool.
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morganjeff
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Who mentioned the word ..'banned'?.....are there are 30 MILLION Comet readers in Comet country? Better start building some new houses for these extra readers. There was a time when Vauxhall and other manufacturing companies built Luton up now all they have left apparently is an airport...what happens when the cost of air travel becomes unaffordable in the next ten yrs....so much for LBC long term strategy for the area.
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Bob
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I think there would be a outcry if Comet readers were banned from flying and were not allowed to take holidays by air and make business trips abroad just to keep a handful of Comet readers happy. I think you all need to see it from Luton’s point of view as the town has just opened a new 50m Olympic size swimming pool and sports facilities paid for entirely by income for the airport.
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morganjeff
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Nothing amusing about an A380 at 1.30am flying over at 500ft followed by another and another and another and another.....how else do you think they're getting to 30 MILLION passengers a year???
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Bob
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Ahhh...Dr.Strangelove. Bit of a tangent there Bob but amusing none-the-less.
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Bertie
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Woaaa those A380's are BIG suckers......"If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a A380... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!"......... ahem....sorry just channelling Gen Buck Turgidson.....wonder when the runway extension happens???
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Bob
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Oh of course...silly me Bob. There was me thinking that most people knew what an plane sounded like. Oooo...what's that noise outside? Is it a cat perhaps?...or maybe car alarm going off. I'd best check. Oh, it's a plane.
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Bertie
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
No doubt the gentleman in question had no choice but to get up and go down to his back garden to see what was keeping him awake........................................................night after night after night after night night after night after night after night night after night after night after night night after night after night after night night after night after night after night night after night after night after night oh look another aircraft full of little Lees'
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Bob
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Ha ha ha...nice one Lee. "The gentleman who ran outside into his back garden to take a sound measurement at 01.30 in the morning"...how sad. Personally I am looking forward to the expansion.
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Bertie
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I along with many other people live here in South Luton under the flight path. Because I work I am not at home all day waiting to monitor each and every aircraft movement from Luton-that seems prevelent when reading the reports by Ladican and Hale members! I could quote the gentleman who ran outside into his back garden to take a sound measurement at 01.30 in the morning to see what decibels an over flying aircraft produced! Then there a lady who states her house windows rattle each and every time a flight passes over (this could suggest the house has technical faults and requires an repair? Then there's a gentleman who having worked in the West of the country retired and moved back to the Luton area to then carry on with fighting development at Luton Airport! Many of you complain and complain for one reason- It is the value of your homes (I state homes) but the fact is you see them as investments and not homes in the true sense of the word. To often many of you complain about how you do not benefit from the airport financially! Well do I as a Luton resident benefit from any of you people? Do I have a stake in your over priced homes for example? Of course not! It is interesting to note that both Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace are each under the flight paths into Heathrow and I have not heard Her Majesty yet complain! So lets be clear hear, there are many of us residing in South Luton (not at the top of the hill where the constant drone of traffic on the M1 motorway is heard 247) but lower down the hill where the aircrraft are at their lowest with full power. If we can live with the airport as our neighbour then why cant you who live miles away where the noise is far quieter due to the height of the aircraft? Fortunately both Hale and Ladican possibly represent less than 1% of folk in their prospective areas? My only advice to all you moaners and whingers- is simply to take up other interests or get a job!
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Lee Luton
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Cllr Robin Harris, chairman of LLAL, said: “Given London Luton Airport’s position..." Given YOUR position living in the very north of Luton Cllr Harris, I doubt you will be sharing the noise as Patrick suggests.
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Bob
Monday, August 20, 2012
We will all share the noise but most of the benefits will go to Luton and its immediate environs. Presumably Luton Council are in a position of granting themselves lucrative planning permission having 'carefully' considered Comet country views. At least the profits do not end up somewhere outside the UK.
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patrick newman
Monday, August 20, 2012