Gatwick launches application to use northern runway
Gatwick Airport has formally started the process to bring its standby runway into routine use.
The airport has notified the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) of its intention to submit an application for development consent; the first step in the Development Consent Order (DCO) application process.
Next month, the airport will submit a ‘scoping request’ to PINS, which sets out the proposed approach and key issues to be included within the process.
Following the publication of its master plan in July, Gatwick announced it would prepare a planning application known as a DCO.
The application is to bring the airport’s standby runway, known as the Northern Runway into routine use for smaller, departing aircraft alongside the main runway by the mid-2020s.
The first stages in the DCO process involve Gatwick carrying out surveys and preparing detailed environmental information on the northern runway plans later this year.
A public consultation will be held next year, after which further updates to the plans will be incorporated.
An application for development consent will then be made to PINS, who will examine the application and provide a recommendation to the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State will then make a decision.
All documents will be made publicly available on the PINS website.
Gatwick chief planning officer Tim Norwood said: "The start of the process to use our existing northern runway is a significant milestone.
"This project has the capacity to offer significant local economic benefits, new jobs and an exciting future for the region."
He added the airport is ‘committed to working in partnership with our local communities, councils and partners to ensure we grow sustainably and present information in a clear and transparent way, including a more detailed stage of public consultation on the project next year’.
Earlier this month, Gatwick unveiled details of its five-year investment plan.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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