Future Infrastructure Developments

[White Heather]

Has any local press said anything as to the result of the meeting? I've had a quick search couldn't see anything

Not that I have seen it heard, but predictably GALBA are now appealing for people to write to Robert Jenrick MP to request he calls it in.

 

[Hendi]

Suppose they will try anything now!! if he calls it in what situation are we in guessing there could be hefty delay?

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Has any local press said anything as to the result of the meeting? I've had a quick search couldn't see anything

Nothing in Wharfedale. Im imagining what the headlines could be: 'airport gets go ahead despite 2000 objections' or 'objectors vow to fight on after LCC decision'.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Not that I have seen it heard, but predictably GALBA are now appealing for people to write to Robert Jenrick MP to request he calls it in.

So what do they want a public enquiry or a judicial review?

 

[Aviador]

They'll take anything to delay the build

 

[White Heather]

Suspect they want a Public Inquiry as it doesn't cost them although I suspect if there was one, they would roll out some Extinction Rebellion supporting barrister to fight their corner.

 

[White Heather]

Nothing in Wharfedale. Im imagining what the headlines could be: 'airport gets go ahead despite 2000 objections' or 'objectors vow to fight on after LCC decision'.

GALBA are like a bad smell that won't go away.

 

[Finger66]

Grotesque Aroma Leaving Big A**e

 

[blotbuc1]

They'll take anything to delay the build

Suspect they want a Public Inquiry as it doesn't cost them although I suspect if there was one, they would roll out some Extinction Rebellion supporting barrister to fight their corner.

In the period before a Public Inquiry takes place they’ll be hoping government advice/legislation in relation to aviation carbon emissions changes in their favour.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

So what do they want a public enquiry or a judicial review?

Planning applications: called-in decisions and recovered appeals

Decision letters on behalf of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government about planning applications and appeals. Only applies to England.

www.gov.uk

It would be a public enquiry conducted by a planning inspector or inspectors if the secretary of state decided to call in the application.

The secretary of state will normally only do this if the application conflicts with national policy in important ways, or is nationally significant.

 

[White Heather]

Planning applications: called-in decisions and recovered appeals

Decision letters on behalf of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government about planning applications and appeals. Only applies to England.

www.gov.uk

It would be a public enquiry conducted by a planning inspector or inspectors if the secretary of state decided to call in the application.

The secretary of state will normally only do this if the application conflicts with national policy in important ways, or is nationally significant.

It doesn't conflict with Government Policy, it complies with it. A point I made in my letter to Robert Jenrick. It's not nationally significant either.

 

[Flightlevel330]

The coal mine has been called in, well because it’s a coal mine. Even the best wishes for that to slip under the radar would not come true, it’s exactly what it says on the tin. The difference is that I can’t see what calling in the airport decision would do for the government image, locally and nationally . It fits well within the remit of any climate change policy’s that the government set out, and it sits nicely with the levelling up agenda. A coal mine doesn’t sit well in the publics mind, even people that are not absolute environmental doom mongers. A new clean carbon neutral terminal and airport is something that can be celebrated and welcomed. As much as GALBA and the other professionally outraged splinter groups will say IT IS NOT AN EXPANSION , IT IS A REPLACEMENT BUILDING . And it is key that this message is pushed, and the lies and fear they like to spread is counter attacked with cold hard facts and truth.

 

[White Heather]

The coal mine has been called in, well because it’s a coal mine. Even the best wishes for that to slip under the radar would not come true, it’s exactly what it says on the tin. The difference is that I can’t see what calling in the airport decision would do for the government image, locally and nationally . It fits well within the remit of any climate change policy’s that the government set out, and it sits nicely with the levelling up agenda. A coal mine doesn’t sit well in the publics mind, even people that are not absolute environmental doom mongers. A new clean carbon neutral terminal and airport is something that can be celebrated and welcomed. As much as GALBA and the other professionally outraged splinter groups will say IT IS NOT AN EXPANSION , IT IS A REPLACEMENT BUILDING . And it is key that this message is pushed, and the lies and fear they like to spread is counter attacked with cold hard facts and truth.

Absolutely. Totally agree.
I guess now that as them lot are already asking people to write to Robert Jenrick, requesting that he does call it in, we supporters if LBA do similar, asking him not to! I already have, one or two others have too. But how many more are willing to do so?
I hope the local Tory MPs are having a word to suggest he keeps out of it!

 

[Hendi]

I sent him a letter at the end of last week. Hopefully if its all in line with government policy etc we should pass these final hurdles? I still see nothing in the press or from the council about the meeting this morning which is strange, thought they'd be all over it.

 

[White Heather]

I sent him a letter at the end of last week. Hopefully if its all in line with government policy etc we should pass these final hurdles? I still see nothing in the press or from the council about the meeting this morning which is strange, thought they'd be all over it.

Odd isn't it? Nothing on BBC. Most unlike them with their Climate Change agenda. Perhaps it was considered academic having previously been approved in principle. Had it been rejected yesterday you can bet they would have been shouting it from the rooftops as a triumph for the climate change agenda.

 

[Heathrowflyer]

Don't these people realise this is about jobs

 

[White Heather]

Don't these people realise this is about jobs

They just claim that aviation jobs are unsustainable. Unlike the power industry, clothing industry, cement industry, and various others, all of which generate considerably more CO2 than aviation, but which are apparently ok.

I have often wondered why it is that these groups focus so much on aviation when it's relatively small fry in the list if top CO2 emitters at 2% globally. I remain convinced that the roots of the likes of GALBA is in NIMBYism. It's so convenient now to hide under the banner of climate change but they do slip up regularly and start banging on about noise (not a climate issue) and night flights (not a climate issue - CO2 emissions are not picky about the time of day). I think these sort of comments demonstrate that GALBA are very much NIMBYs in disguise and have just joined forces with the environmental fanatics.

We all understand the climate issues even if we don't always agree whether it's entirely down to man or not (given this has happened before when man wasn't in any position to cause it), but there are ways to tackle it that that don't involve paralysing travel.

 

[Hendi]

I see lba have released a statement via twitter with a qoute from Vincent hodder welcoming full approval.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370316444085460992

 

[lbaspotter]

Yeap statement now published on there own website too.

Planning Approval Awarded | Leeds Bradford Airport

www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk

 

[superking]

A job well done by the LBA supporters.