{"id":206535,"date":"2025-10-17T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206535\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:46:12","slug":"second-runway-plans-at-gatwick-see-new-legal-challenge-by-uk-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206535\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Runway Plans at Gatwick See New Legal Challenge by UK Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatwick Airport\u2019s (LGW) plans for a <a href=\"https:\/\/airportindustry-news.com\/gatwicks-second-runway-project-wins-government-approval\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second runway<\/a> have seen a new challenge launched by campaign group Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (CAGNE), which is arguing that development consent for the new runway was \u2018flawed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge concerns the assessment of potential greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the runway\u2019s implementation, as well as what it states is a failure to recognise the potential for additional noise pollution near the airport.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/London-Gatwick-Issues-Response-to-Secretary-of-State-for-Transport.png\" alt=\"London Gatwick\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>London Gatwick<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 London Gatwick<\/p>\n<p>The group is now urging transport secretary Heidi Alexander to revoke consent, threatening a judicial review challenge if action is not taken.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the Department for Transport (DfT) has stated that it is unable to comment on the challenge, which was launched earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Government granted official approval for London Gatwick\u2019s 2.2 billion GBP Northern Runway scheme in September.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which has been under examination since 2021, involves repositioning the existing northern runway so that it can operate alongside the main runway for routine commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gatwick Airport\u2019s (LGW) plans for a second runway have seen a new challenge launched by campaign group Communities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,931,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-206535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-lgw","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}