The campaign

We are campaigning against an airport on or near the Thames Estuary because it would be:

• Unaffordable for the UK
• Responsible for concreting over much of Kent
• A source of significant noise and pollution
• In the wrong location
• Devastating for wildlife

For details on each airport proposal click here.

Unaffordable
• Airport will cost up to £70bn, with road and rail costing even more.
• Who will pay? Not the UK. The country can’t afford this.
• It will provide low paid jobs in 20 years, not high quality ones now.

Concrete Kent
• New homes would have to be built for the 70,000 plus workers needed.
• Huge new roads and railways would cut into the countryside.
• Hundreds of business depots now around Heathrow would have to move here.
• It would turn the garden of England into a concrete jungle.

Noise and pollution
• The plan is to build an airport that would be used by twice as many passengers as Heathrow - meaning up to twice as many planes operating up to 24 hours a day, every day.
• This could mean hundreds of night flights a week.
• An airport would mean millions more car journeys in North Kent clogging up our roads and polluting the air.

Wrong location
• Planes using it would be 12 times more likely to suffer bird strike than at existing UK airports.
• It would be near the SS Richard Montgomery - a sunken warship packed with thousands of tonnes of explosives.
• Air industry bosses say no as it is on the wrong side of London.
• Nine out of ten airlines using Heathrow say they do not want to move.
• There are better alternatives such as properly using the airports we already have and more high speed trains.
• ¬The airport could be next to Europe’s largest liquefied natural gas container plant, which is in Grain, where a fifth of the UK’s gas supply is imported and stored.

Devastate wildlife
• An airport would destroy an area used by three hundred thousand migrating birds a year.
• The Thames estuary is a place of world wide scientific and environmental importance.