One’s Enough Message

Campaign against 2nd Runway at Gatwick – Update

A message from One’s Enough about the recent meeting in Crawley

Hello everyone, last Thursday evening (Thursday 24th July) we held a very successful public meeting at the Civic Hall in Crawley, attended by some 120 people, most being horrified by the magnitude of the proposal and environmental implications of a 2nd Runway at Gatwick.

For your information please see below copies of the literature handed out at the meeting, summarising the current position, listing the key implications to our town and the future of for our children, together with what you can do to ensure that your opposition to a second runway is heard by as many people as possible.

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The meeting was held just hours after Gatwick Airport Ltd (GAL) presented a new package of compensation and additional funding initiatives to minimise and justify the impact of a second runway. As always, the headline grabbing figures initially look substantial, however apart from now offering 25% over “prevailing” market rates to those home owners whose properties are potentially to be demolished, the carrots they offer should be seen for what they are in relation to the devastation and damage their proposals will have for us, the residents of Crawley, as minimal and unacceptable compared to their projected vast profits.

In their document GAL promise that the newly proposed funds will ensure that “all local roads are no busier than they are today”. One might ask how will all the millions of additional airport passengers and those living in some 45,000 new houses and those workers going to the thousands of new jobs get around the area without using and making our local roads busier if not gridlocked????

During the meeting many issues were raised and discussed, but the overriding concern was that far too many Crawley residents do not appreciate the magnitude of damage that a second runway would cause, across all of Crawley and the immediate area, to ALL aspects of our environment. Or they believe that Crawley will benefit greatly from new jobs, or believe that the Government has already decided that Gatwick should get a second runway and nothing can be done to stop it.

It is especially this concern that One’s Enough believes is our major goal to counter these, at best misguided or at worst downright naive, perceptions by spreading information across all of Crawley’s neighbourhoods.

In the coming months Crawley Borough Council will need to decide whether or not to support the 2nd runway proposals, with a vote by the local councillors, of whom a number are either in favour of the proposal or still undecided. A Crawley Borough Council vote in favour of a second runway will undoubtedly cause major damage to all anti runway campaigns across the South East and make the choice of Gatwick that much more likely. Although ultimately the final decision will be taken by the Airports Commission and the Government of the day, after the General Election next May 2015.

It is now critical that the current One’s Enough Steering Committee is enlarged to be able to undertake a major communications initiative requiring many supporters to actively help spread the
message across Crawley.

We again ask for you to urgently consider stepping forward to join the Committee and/or offering active assistance especially during the coming months and through the autumn when the Airports Commission’s Public Consultation is expected. This may entail helping to organise other public meetings, or delivering and distributing leaflets.

If you are able to offer any help, however small, please email us in the coming week or two.

Many thanks

On Behalf of ‘One’s Enough’

Brenda Smith Chairperson
& Derek Meakings Treasurer


Your support and donations are critical to the undertaking and success of this campaign, Contact us at
email gatwickonesenough@gmail.com
phone 07758 184680
Facebook www.facebook.com/onesenoughgatwick
to support the campaign and offer help.

Donations may be made by sending a cheque payable to “One’s Enough” to One’s Enough c/o 23, Fitchet Close, Crawley, RH11 7PY. Cash donations may also be made at the meeting on 24th July.

Ones Enough – Crawley’s campaign against a second Gatwick runway led by a cross party group of local councillors, supporting a One Runway, Two Terminal Airport with Spare Capacity

Gatwick Airport Runway Consultation Results

From the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
29th July 2014

You may be interested to hear the results of the Gatwick Airport runway consultation which are contained in the independent report by Ipsos Mori. The number of responses in favour of each option was as follows:

Option 1. 194
Option 2. 167
Option 3. 733
None of these options. 6,200

This result is so embarrassing for Gatwick Airport Ltd that they have done all they can to conceal it. They did not mention it to the airport consultative committee or to the press. In their report to the Airports Commission it only appears in a pie chart on page 50, nowhere in the text.

They claim that 4,003 responses were the result of a campaign by The Woodland Trust, and can therefore be disregarded. We do not agree: many of these responses contained specific comments and were thus not just the result of clicking a button. They are a foretaste of the nation-wide opposition to any new runway.

Even leaving out the Woodland Trust responses, twice as many people voted for ‘none of these options’ as voted for all three runway options combined. And that was despite the ‘none of these options’ box being difficult to find.

761 people agreed that a new runway would benefit the local economy but 2,020 felt that it would not benefit them much or at all.

These are remarkable results! They prove a strong and determined opposition to any new Gatwick runway.

Brendon Sewill
Chairman

For more information about Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
phone 01293 863369
email gacc@btconnect.com
website www.gacc.org.uk
Facebook www.facebook.com/doyoucaregatwick

Alternatively contact directly
phone John Byng 01293 537234
phone Peter Barclay 01293 862821

GACC – Delivery of New Airport Capacity

From the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
21st July 2014

The Airports Commission has published a discussion document on how to deliver a new runway ‘expeditiously’. It mainly deals with whether to use the National Infrastructure planning process or whether to use a hybrid Bill (as with HS2). You may be interested to see the attached response from GACC.

GACC Airport Capacity 21-07-2014

You may also like to see the following reports by RSPB and by WWF.

‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’ examines the economics of capacity expansion in the South East and the extent that other sectors of the economy would need to contract to allow aviation to expand. RSPB Aviation and Climate Change

‘The implications of a new South East runway on regional airport expansion’, demonstrates that if a new runway is built, commitments under the Climate Change Act cannot be met unless significant constraints are imposed on the level of activity at regional airports. It highlights that a new runway in the South East would exacerbate the North-South divide in two ways: directly, by sucking business away from the regions, and indirectly by taking up a very large percentage of the allowable CO2 emissions from UK aviation. WWF Regional Airports Report

For more information about Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
phone 01293 863369
email gacc@btconnect.com
website www.gacc.org.uk
Facebook www.facebook.com/doyoucaregatwick

Alternatively contact directly
phone John Byng 01293 537234
phone Peter Barclay 01293 862821

Crawley Town Centre

Queen’s Square Improvement Project

Crawley Borough Council and West Sussex County Council are investing £3 million to improve Queens Square. The councils do not own any of the shops but can make improvements to the public areas of the square.

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Burns + Nice has been appointed to design the new Queens Square with the aim of making it vibrant and lively and ensuring the area contributes to the overall town centre offer. To help Burns + Nice understand what improvements residents, businesses and visitors want to see, the councils are asking questions about how Queens Square is currently used, how people feel about it and what changes would encourage them to use the area more often.

To send us your ideas, please go to website www.crawley.gov.uk and complete the online questionnaire. Staff will be also in Queens Square and other parts of the town centre over the next few weeks asking questions so please let us know what you think.

Responses to these questions will inform early designs for the new Queens Square. Once drawn up, we’ll be inviting further comments on various designs.

Following this, there will be another chance to comment when a planning application for the improvements is submitted. The closing date for responses is Friday 1st August.

Crawley Observer – Gatwick News

Leaders Meet Chair of Airports Commission to Discuss Gatwick
Sir Howard Davies Hears From Supporters and Opponents of Expansion
16th July 2014 – Crawley Observer
website www.crawleyobserver.co.uk

By Karen Dunn
email karen.dunn@jpress.co.uk
phone 01293 845058

The man who holds the future of Gatwick Airport in his hands has paid a visit to Crawley.

Sir Howard Davies, chairman of the Airports Commission, was at the town hall on Wednesday (July 9) to meet with councillors and campaign groups.

Sir Howard heads a five person group charged with examining the need for additional runway capacity across the country as well as possible locations for airport expansion.

His final report is due to be presented to the Government in the summer of 2015.

Among those who met with him at the town hall were Louise Goldsmith, leader of West Sussex County Council; Cllr Peter Smith, of Crawley Borough Council; Jeremy Taylor, chief executive of Gatwick Diamond Business; and members of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign, which is opposed to increased runway capacity anywhere.

During the discussion, the possibility of Gatwick not being selected for expansion was raised.

Expansion has been enthusiastically backed by the town’s business community, while the county council has given-its support in principle.

Discussing the impact on the economy should Gatwick not be selected, Cllr Goldsmith said: “It would still have a role but we would have to think quite long and hard to see what we could do to support the local economy.”

Mr Taylor predicted Gatwick would continue to grow even if it did not receive a second runway but warned the growth would be in short-haul domestic flights while business flights would be routed through Heathrow.

He added: “The increased traffic at Gatwick, in smaller aircraft, will lead to greater pressure on slots and, in fact, will lead to increased demand for day-long operation as well as increase demand on the shoulders and at night times.

“Those who oppose could be making the local noise environment worse.”

In September, Crawley Borough Council opted not to express a view on expansion until more information was made available from the Airports Commission allowing a more informed decision to be made.

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Louise Goldsmith, leader of West Sussex County Council

Worry over ‘ice cream promises’

Anti-runway campaigners have urged the Airports Commission to ensure pledges made by Gatwick-such as noise compensation – are deliverable.

GACC chairman Brendon Sewill said: “We are confident that, in the end, no new runway will be built at Gatwick, but we don’t want the Commission to be bamboozled by ice-cream promises from the airport which melt in the sun.”

Worth Park in the News

Archaeology Fans Dig in at Worth Park
Crawley News – 16th July 2014
website www.crawleynews.co.uk

Explores were able to get up close with archaeological finds at an historic Victorian garden.

A free open day at Worth Park, in Pound Hill, last Saturday (12th July) included hands-on archaeology activities for all the family and a chance to handle some of the finds.

Horsham District Archaeology Group led tours of the park’s two archaeology sites which have been discovered during the ongoing improvements being made. This included a mysterious wall hidden underneath a flower bed.

The park, formerly known as Milton Mount Gardens, covers eight hectares and was a high status late Victorian pleasure garden.

At the weekend the group gave talks about the different techniques they used to uncover new evidence about what the landscape has been used for over the years.

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Seek and you shall find Councillor Chris Mullins, cabinet member for leisure and culture, with volunteers from the Horsham District Archaeology Group showing their finds at Worth Park.

Hidden Treasures of Worth Park Explored – Digging the Past
Weekend Herald – 18th July 2014 and Crawley Observer – 16th July 2014
website www.crawleyobserver.co.uk

The hidden treasures of Worth park were explored at a free open day held as part of the Festival of British Archaeology.

Visitors were given one final chance to see the fountain garden site before it’s covered up for its protection.

Members of the Horsham District Archaeology Group led tours of the park’s two archaeology sites and described the techniques used to uncover new evidence about the area which was designed by Victorian garden designers James Pulham and Son.

For more on the festival, log on to website www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk

Crawley News – Gatwick Airport

Airport Decision Makers in Town
16th July 2014 – Crawley News

THE people deciding whether Gatwick Airport gets a second runway have met councillors in Crawley to debate the potential impact of expansion.

The Airports Commission, made up of Sir Howard Davies, Sir John Armitt, Dame Julia King, Professor Ricky Burdett and Vivienne Cox visited Crawley last Wednesday.

They met Crawley borough and West Sussex county councillors and also went on site visits to parts of the town which could be impacted if a second runway was built.

Louise Goldsmith, leader of West Sussex County Council, which in principle is in favour of a second runway at Gatwick, said: “I must say the commission were very impressive with their knowledge of the area.

“They have clearly already gone into considerable depths for their investigation, talking about noise, infrastructure and the environment.

“The county council, across all parties; voted to, in principle, support expansion at Gatwick. “There is an economic argument for Gatwick and it gave us a stronger voice at the table by making this decision.”

Promises

The borough council has yet to decide whether or not it will support a second runway. The promise of thousands of extra jobs has convinced many people that the council should support a second runway for the good of the town’s younger residents.

But there are also concerns that an extra runway would create traffic problems and noise issues, particularly for residents in Langley Green and Ifield whose homes would be close to one end of the runway.

The Airports Commission will put forward a recommendation next year to the Government on whether Gatwick or Heathrow should expand.

Get the Full Story

For more stories on the proposed second runway at Gatwick and all the latest airport news fly over to website www.crawleynews.co.uk/gatwick

The Future of NHS Care – Public Events

Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group
The Future of NHS Health Care – Crawley Meeting

Help us to plan for the future of health services in our local area. Three public events will be held across the north of West Sussex to gain public and patient views as we work together on a long term plan to ensure our NHS for future generations.

You are warmly invited to attend the 5 Communities Plan launch event on:

  • Wednesday 16 July 2014, 1330 – 1700 at St Andrews Community Centre in Burgess Hill
  • Tuesday 29 July 2014, 0930 – 1300 at the Charis Centre in West Green Drive, Crawley
  • Thursday 31 July 2014, 1730 – 2100 at the Drill Hall in Horsham

CCCG Press Release 25-07-2014

For more information:


Facebook NHSCrawleyCCG
website www.crawleyccg.nhs.uk

For communications queries please contact:

Carla Dow
phone 01293 600300 ext 4278
email Carla Dow carladow@nhs.net

Martin Sawden
phone 01293 600300 ext 3546
email Martin Sawden martin.sawden@nhs.net

One’s Enough Public Meeting

Campaign against 2nd Runway at Gatwick – Public Meeting

To Be Held at The Civic Hall, The Boulevard, Crawley
on Thursday 24th July At 7:30pm

This meeting is specifically for the public to have their say and express their concerns, with Local Councillors and guests from Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC).

Ones Enough Public Meeting 24-07-2014

Your support and donations are critical to the undertaking and success of this campaign, Contact us at
email gatwickonesenough@gmail.com
phone 07758 184680
Facebook www.facebook.com/gatwickonesenough
to support the campaign and offer help.

Donations may be made by sending a cheque payable to “One’s Enough” to One’s Enough c/o 23, Fitchet Close, Crawley, RH11 7PY. Cash donations may also be made at the meeting on 24th July.

Ones Enough – Crawley’s campaign against a second Gatwick runway led by a cross party group of local councillors, supporting a One Runway, Two Terminal Airport with Spare Capacity

GACC – Analysis of Flight Paths Around Gatwick

Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
10th July 2014

Below is an analysis of the new flight paths around Gatwick, some proposed, some already implemented, prepared by GACC vice chairman John Byng. If you are intending to respond to the current consultation you may find these points useful.

GACC - Airspace Consultation Notes

Please send us any comments you may have in order to help us prepare our response, or to suggest action we could take to alleviate the misery that many people are telling us that they are suffering as a result of the new flight paths. If you are adversely affected do please write to the local or national press, or use the social media to complain.

I don’t need to remind you that the situation would be far, far worse if a new runway were ever to be built.

Brendon Sewill
Chairman GACC

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For more information about Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
phone 01293 863369
email gacc@btconnect.com
website www.gacc.org.uk
Facebook www.facebook.com/doyoucaregatwick

Alternatively contact directly
phone John Byng 01293 537234
phone Peter Barclay 01293 862821