Challenge to Government - “Come clean over the real costs of the Heathrow expansion”

Local MP John McDonnell challenges the Government to come clean for the first time over the real cost of relocating anything up to the 10,000 people that would be affected by the expansion of Heathrow, and whose homes would either be demolished or rendered unlivable.

Local MP John McDonnell exposed in Parliament the dramatic impact of Third Runway proposal on local communities.

Local MP John McDonnell, alongside the two other MPs for Hillingdon, exposed in the House of Commons the dramatic impact of the third runway proposal on the communities surrounding Heathrow Airport.

John McDonnell MP set out the real impact of what the third runway and sixth terminal would have on local communities. This included the loss of homes, schools, churches and whole communities.

John said “BAA and the Government have refused consistently to set out the real costs of constructing a third runway and sixth terminal. Nowhere in any consultation documents or speeches by ministers has there been any indication of what it would cost to relocate the thousands of local residents whose homes would be demolished or rendered unlivable by the expansion of the airport. I am challenging them to publish this information as it would expose the true costs of Heathrow growth.”

submitted by John on 18 Dec 2007 at 08:48