http://www.heathrowairport.com/about-us/company-news-and-information/airports-commission/our-reports, http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/HeathrowAboutUs/Downloads/PDF/taking_britain_further.pdf, http://your.heathrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TBF-Volume-3-72dpi-jm.pdf, http://your.heathrow.com/BritainsHeathrow/listening/, www.facebook.com/Heathrow Villages Planning. Heathrow's expansion means more flights and global clout — but the trade-off is an enviromental challenge. This has been in place for three years, since residents complained about anti-social behaviour from private hire vehicle drivers parking in our villages. The prime minister, like Heathrow Airport, doesn’t see the thousands of people who will be displaced, whose lives will be disrupted, many of them at a time of their life when they could normally expect continuity and calm, as an issue. Holloway Lane mural (above) Heathrow fenced off testing sites on Harmondsworth Moor in 2018 (right) Heathrow Expansion Latest - visit our friends at the links below to keep up with the latest news and activities relating to the proposed 3rd runway at LHR. The key questions of what is to be built, what will be the cost and who will pay remain remarkably unresolved. One big task will be moving the M25 150 metres west and lowering it by six metres. Quieter planes, too, mean that "since the Seventies we've doubled the number of flights but the noise footprint has fallen by 90 per cent", adds Gray. And, just as with Crossrail and HS2, much of that time will be soaked up by planning. Campaigning against Heathrow’s expansion plans isn’t a new thing around here; we’ve been doing it one way or another for almost as long as the airport’s been here. And who will pay the bill? Or might rival Gatwick come up on the inside — it is now talking of using a taxiway as a short second runway, a low-cost plan not submitted to or mentioned in the vast Airports Commission report? They say we’ll be well-compensated, so what’s the problem? I wouldn’t lose my home immediately as I live just outside the proposed compulsory purchase zone, although the boundary fence of the proposed extended airport would be only 50 paces from my front door with the new runway only 100m further away. SHE is an important part of that coalition. But somewhere close to the Five Bells — this summer we will be told exactly where — there may soon be a big fence and lots of diggers. Already the airport has cut the cost of its expensive plans — which stand in sharp contrast to the mere €320 million (£281.5 million) Dublin is paying for a second runway. There are two shops, two pubs, a church and a chapel, and open fields surrounding it all – some of the things that originally attracted me. But they are already among the highest in the world. They’ve been allowed to develop within the existing perimeter and have built new terminals to cope with the additional passengers that larger planes carried, but they’ve always let down the local community. And where exactly do we find the number and type of houses needed nearby? You can find our Community Guidelines in full It's a route that tells you something about how London has grown. Meanwhile, opposition to Heathrow expansion has continued to grow and in 2017 the No Third Runway Coalition was created to bring together anti-expansion and environmental campaign groups, primarily in London and surrounding areas. There is support for the plan locally as well as opposition. What the bulldozers would leave behind would be uninhabitable because of noise and air pollution. In theory it's full steam ahead. What about the impact on air quality as well as climate change — now a massive issue in London? You might not have long left to visit. I’d have to pack my bags and look for another place to live; a refugee in my own country. This time I hope a lengthy moratorium will be imposed so this generation of residents can live out their lives in peace without having to fight yet another doomed expansion project. This summer Heathrow plans to publish a masterplan which will tell people what is actually going to be built and where — including details of a new Terminal 6. Holloway Lane mural (above) Heathrow fenced off testing sites on Harmondsworth Moor in 2018 (right). Are you sure you want to delete this comment? But even that is not the end of a painfully drawn out planning process. Heathrow is clear: the runway is needed and is happening The Government says the same. But if the first heavily laden A350 Airbus is to take off as promised in 2026 from land that is now full of buildings, a quite incredible amount of work will have to be done. Heathrow says that despite the opposition of prominent local MPs such as shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Boris Johnson, it is winning some residents and local councils around to its cause with promises of compensation, noise management and new jobs. One friend told me how she’s just rediscovered an old photo of herself on an anti-runway protest with her son in a pushchair – and he’s now in his twenties. Up in the air: CGI impressions of what the new Heathrow will look like, Project runway: The inside story of Heathrow’s expansion, and what it means for London, ( But if you get off a couple of stops later you find yourself somewhere very different: in the core of what was once a rural village. How much on top will the taxpayer have to pick up for things like better road and rail links, as well as the cost and disruption of altering the M25? Residents have been keen to keep the PSPO in the Heathrow Villages, which expired in September 2019. Grimshaw Architects Meanwhile, Harmondsworth Barn, which has been there for six centuries, will hopefully be there for six more. Residents here have so much to consider: if I send my children to the village school, will it survive for long enough for them to complete their education or will I have to move them to a new school, potentially separating them from their friends? Heathrow Airport will construct a third runway by 2026 and complete its expansion by 2050, according to its "masterplan" published on Tuesday. … If the third runway happens, flight numbers could climb further to more than 700,000, although there would be big gains in reliability too. If only that was possible. Of course I would find a house, but it wouldn’t be the home my present one is. That's a decade after the Airports Commission was set up — and leaves only four years to actually build the runway if it's to open in 2026. China, by contrast, is planning to open 74 new airports by 2020. Harmondsworth is a charming village with roots that go back to at least early Saxon times, and there are surviving buildings from the Middle Ages.