Heathrow – The final push

Tomorrow (Tuesday 18 June) is launch day for the statutory consultation on Heathrow's expansion.

One feature of the programme is a model of the future airport which uses augmented reality, and a sound booth to be provided at certain locations featuring virtual reality and demonstrating the effect of noise insulation on properties overflown by aircraft.

Heathrow says it will be holding events in more locations than in the previous campaign and, in addition to an extensive national publicity campaign across newspapers, radio, billboards and digital, has for the first time engaged Spotify to contact 2.6m households directly in the vicinity of the airport with a leaflet encouraging participation.

Heathrow executive director for expansion Emma Gilthorpe said: “Heathrow’s expansion is a project of huge national and local significance, and it is critical to our country’s economic growth. An expanded hub airport will allow the country to access more of the world, create thousands of jobs locally and nationally and it will open up new trading routes.

"But we can’t deliver these plans alone. We urge everyone to have their say in this consultation, to shape our plans, and to help us deliver expansion in the fairest and most sustainable way.”

www.heathrow.com

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