On 8 May 2013 08:32:10 GMT, Neil Williams
wrote:

wrote:

I don't think your description of the Stansted area would meet with much
agreement in North West Essex.

I just looked at a map and the airport's immediate surrounds indeed are
either businesses of the type that support the airport and could be moved,
e.g. the car parks, or farmland. You could make it a lot bigger before you
start taking out villages, unlike LHR.

Heathrow Airport has been buying up the properties that would be
subsumed by a third runway, so there won't be many remaining property
owners affected by a resurrected proposal. However, grander four
runway proposals would be more complicated, probably involving putting
the M25 into a cut and cover tunnel under an expanded airport (as
already happens in, for example, CDG and AMS).