Kathy John McDonnell MP in 2005
27/6/2021 heathrowvillager.co.uk
Dear Editor,
...The general public need to know it’s history and why it has squandered the 6 runways it was built with in order to just survive by providing more taxiways and parking, thereby requiring more runways and terminals to be built. The facts do not justify these plans as it was admitted not once but twice in the 1960’s that Heathrow was not fit for purpose!!!
The Roskill Commission stated quite clearly that Heathrow was not only built in the wrong place but suffered from very bad design with all terminals at the time being in the middle and accessible from only one point under a runway from the A4. It was then planned to build a new airport on Maplin Sands on Foulness Island to the east of Southend-on Sea. Sadly this never came about probably because the Ministry of Defence own the land and still do to this day.
So the government of the day commissioned “The Edwards Report” who came to the same conclusion as Roskill ie LHR was badly designed and built in the wrong place! It was then suggested that a new airport be built at Cublington.
It’s about time people realised that the building of T4 and T5 was just an attempt to “bodge” a useless airport” and no amount of further expansion will ever make it ‘fit for purpose”. Other cities “saw the light” many years ago including Paris - Munich - Athens - Hong Kong etc. all had to be replaced because they were no longer fit for purpose! How many times do we have to be told these facts before the penny finally drops? Even the inspector who finally gave the go ahead for T5 has stated he would never have let it go ahead if he’d known they would break their promise and ask for another runway!!
We need a new airport fit for purpose and this rubbish one closed for good as per Boris Johnsons plans.
Trevor Gordon,
Bath Road Longford Village West
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