Foreign Secretary William Hague has ruled out a change of Government policy on a third runway at Heathrow, as reports emerged of plans for a new force runaway.
The Government insists to keep elections promises by continuing the expansion to Heathrow third runaway.
“That’s not something that this Government, this Coalition, will be doing,” he said.
“It’s important to make the right decision about this and study all the options.
“We said very specifically we would not be (building a third runway). Because a runway or an airport takes such a long time, this does not have an immediate effect on the economic situation now and our airport capacity now, but there are others things which do have an effect.”
The Government is consulting different companies to discover which is the best site to build a third runaway on.
It’s understood to include possible sites in Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
It will have to be constructed within 30 minutes travel of the capital.
That would likely place it on the Great Western mainline, which runs from London to Maidenhead, or on the High Speed Two rail link between the capital and Birmingham.
Conservatives wants to build a third runway in order to expend GB growth and get the deficit down. Government also want to raise demands on Heathrow and reduce congestion at busy periods of the year and build an international hub to London.
The same principles will follow in other airport around United Kingdom.
The Liberal Democrats are expected to restate their opposition to airport expansion later this month at the party’s annual conference in Brighton.
Updated on 7th September
There will be no firm decisions on UK airport expansion before the next general election, the Government has confirmed.
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