DOZENS OF NEW TREES PLANTED WHERE HEATHROW 3RD RUNWAY WOULD LIE
Dozens of new trees have been planted in the exact location that a Heathrow 3rd runway would lie, in an apparent act of environmental defiance to the plans.
The trees were planted by Hillingdon Council recently in Harmondsworth Park, located adjacent to Harmondsworth Primary School. Both these sites would be closed, removed and inside the new airport boundary, if Heathrow were to secure permission to build a third runway. In what appears to be an act of defiance of the plans, the trees have been planted in the precise location that would form exactly where the third runway would be.
Stop Heathrow Expansion member Geraldine Nicholson visited the site as part of her daily walk on 22nd April, which marked the 50th World Earth Day.
This year’s World Earth Day was the 50th occurrence of the annual event which first began in the United States in 1970, which saw millions of people take to the streets to protest for environmental reforms across America. The event was a major milestone in raising awareness and subsequent passing of key environmental legislation.
In Heathrow’s most recent consultation, in June 2019, Harmondsworth Primary School would be relocated to the nearby Stockley by-pass, a road which is located close to pollution monitors that frequently break legal pollution limits
The news of the tree planting comes as the Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision within the next fortnight on whether to allow an appeal to a recent Court of Appeal decision which ruled that the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans did not take account of the Paris climate targets when preparing the legislation for Heathrow expansion to be put to Parliament.