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Court of Appeal rejects challenge to Gatwick’s two-runway expansion

The ruling keeps alive a 2.2 billion pound plan that would move Gatwick’s emergency runway 12 meters north and add 100,000 flights a year.

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Campaigners challenging the UK government’s approval of Gatwick Airport’s planned two-runway operation have lost their bid to take the dispute further, according to BBC Business.

Peter Barclay and the campaign group Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (Cagne) had sought to block the expansion through legal action against the Department for Transport, arguing the government did not properly assess the scheme’s climate impact.

Judges at the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal bids, saying the grounds raised were unarguable and that neither appeal had a real prospect of success.

The approved expansion, valued at 2.2 billion pounds, would move Gatwick’s emergency runway 12 meters north and is designed to enable an additional 100,000 flights per year, the outlet reported.

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