New Heathrow consultation date

The statutory 12½-week consultation on Heathrow’s expansion plans will begin in just under a month, on 18 June as the latest delivery milestone for what the airport calls a “critical national infrastructure project”.

Officials say the consultation, responses to which will be fed into a final planning application, will be its largest and most innovative engagement exercise yet, with new technology brought in to show the public the current proposals.

The technology includes a model of the future airport which uses augmented reality, and a sound booth to be used at certain locations which features virtual reality to demonstrate the effect of noise insulation on properties overflown by aircraft.

The airport says based on feedback from previous consultations it will be holding events in more locations than previously and, along with a national publicity campaign, will be contacting 2.6m households directly to encourage participation.

At the conclusion of the consultation and after feedback has been incorporated, Heathrow will submit a final proposal to the Planning Inspectorate in 2020, kickstarting the approvals process.

The decision whether to grant a Development Consent Order (DCO) will be made by the secretary of state following a public examination period led by the Planning Inspectorate.

www.heathrowexpansion.com/the-expansion-plan/planning-process

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