Increasing the UK鈥檚 long-term aviation capacity
Read the full outcome
Detail of outcome
鈥楥onsideration of consultation responses鈥� gives an overview of the consultation responses received by the Airports Commission in the various areas of its analysis and explains how it has responded to the points made. The Airports Commission鈥檚 recommendations following consultation are set out in its Final report.
The 鈥楢nalysis of the Airports Commission鈥檚 consultation responses鈥� provides detail on responses to the consultation, including:
- a summary of the themes raised by respondents
- a coding framework capturing all of the points made in the more than 70,000 responses
- an explanation of how the consultation was managed and how responses were analysed
鈥楢nalysis of the Airports Commission鈥檚 consultation responses: associated appendices鈥� contains a full list of all of the organisations who responded to the Airports Commission鈥檚 main consultation.
The Commission has also published the technical responses it received.
Feedback received
Detail of feedback received
As set out in 鈥楥onsideration of consultation responses鈥�, the Airports Commission has published the substantive, technical responses received to its main consultation and air quality consultation. This comprises responses from both organisations and members of the public. The judgement of what should be included as a substantive or technical response has been informed by the length and technical complexity of the submissions, and in most cases appendices to main submissions have not been published.
Original consultation
Consultation description
The Airports Commission is seeking your views on 3 options for a new runway in the south east of England, and on its assessments of these options. In particular, the Commission wishes to:
- test the evidence base it has assembled
- understand stakeholders鈥� views as to the accuracy, relevance and breadth of the assessments it has undertaken
- seek views on the potential conclusions that might be drawn from them
The Commission also welcomes evidence and ideas about improving the short-listed options (eg through mitigation measures to address specific impacts).
The consultation consists of a large number of documents. This page features the commission鈥檚 overarching consultation document, a sustainability assessment and business case for each of the 3 schemes. Detailed technical reports which underpin the commission鈥檚 analysis have also been published, along with an index to help you navigate them.
Work submitted to the Commission by the 3 scheme promoters; Gatwick Airport Limited, Heathrow Airport Limited and Heathrow Hub Limited has also been published.
You can also find out about the public engagement that the Commission has undertaken during the consultation.
Update to consultation: 25 November 2014
A new paragraph, paragraph 3.148 on page 82, was inserted in the 鈥楥onsultation document鈥� on 25 November 2014. The paragraph was accidentally omitted from the initial 鈥楥onsultation document鈥� during the typesetting process.
Update to consultation: 17 December 2014
A new report 鈥淚mpacts of expanding airport capacity on competition and connectivity鈥� has been added to the strategic fit technical reports collection.
Update to consultation: 19 December 2014
An addendum covering 鈥渘ational and local noise assessment鈥� has been added to the noise analysis technical reports collection.
Update to consultation: 19 January 2015
Granular data on forecast passenger numbers for a number of smaller regional UK airports have been published alongside our strategic fit analysis documents . In the original documents this information was aggregated under the heading of 鈥榦ther UK airports鈥� in the 鈥�Forecasts report鈥�.
Update to consultation: 22 January 2015
All underlying data for the charts in the cost and commercial viability technical documents prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has now been published in spreadsheet format. Some of these charts were identified as showing data other than that referred to in the consultation reports. In these instances, the charts have been updated in the spreadsheet to show data based on the correct scenarios. This update does not affect any of the analysis, figures and commentary elsewhere in the reports.
Update to consultation: 23 January 2015
There has been a revision to the underlying indexation assumptions for the core capex and asset replacement costs for the:
- Heathrow north west
- Heathrow extended northern
runway schemes. As an example, our advisers have re-run 1 scenario to consider the impact of the change on aeronautical charges and the financing requirement. This results in an increase of the order of 1% to both outputs, which is not considered material to the work of the commission. The commission is advising consultees of this impact, but is not planning to amend the underlying cost and commercial viability reports.
Documents
Updates to this page
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Consultation outcome released.
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Update note added which provides information about responses received to the consultation.
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First published.