Have your say on Gatwick Airport's Draft Master Plan Consultation
As part of the airport planning process - and reflecting industry best practice - Gatwick creates and regularly publishes a ‘master plan’ to show how the airport intends to develop and grow in the longer term. The master plan also helps to inform the wider regional and local planning process.
Our 2018 draft master plan sets out proposals for the airport’s ongoing development and sustainable growth. In it we explain our latest thinking on how the airport can meet the increasing demand for air travel and provide Britain with enhanced global connectivity.
We also demonstrate how we can create new opportunities for the region and continue to bolster the local economy for future generations, while doing everything possible to develop and grow in a sustainable way - striking the right balance between economic growth and environmental impact.
This draft master plan is also a direct response to the Government’s recent call for UK airports to look at ‘making best use of their existing runways’ and we explore how Gatwick could grow across three scenarios:
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Main runway: using new technologies to increase capacity
In the near term, the airport has explored how deploying new technology could increase the capacity of the main runway, offering incremental growth through more efficient operations.
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Standby runway: innovative plan to bring existing standby runway into use
Under its current planning agreement, Gatwick’s existing standby runway is only used when the main runway is closed for maintenance or emergencies. However, the 40-year planning agreement will come to an end in 2019. The draft master plan sets out for the first time how we could potentially bring our existing standby runway into routine use for departing flights, alongside the main runway, by the mid-2020s.
This innovative development, which would meet all international safety requirements, would be delivered without increasing the airport’s noise footprint and provide greater operational resilience.
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Additional runway: safeguarding for the future
While we are not actively pursuing the option of a building a brand new runway to the south of the airport - as we did through the Airports Commission process - we believe it is in the national interest to continue to safeguard this land for the future as part of our master plan.
You can view the full draft master plan and an aerial film highlighting the location of the three scenarios outlined in the draft master plan. We have also created high resolution versions of some of the maps included in our draft master plan at the bottom of this page.
Our draft master plan consultation document is designed to explain the consultation in more detail.
Public consultation
We believe the plans offer safe, agile, low-impact ways of unlocking much-needed new runway capacity from within our existing infrastructure - however, it is important that everyone has their say so we look forward to hearing the views of our local communities, partners and stakeholders.
A 12-week public consultation is now live and includes six public exhibitions in our local area, which will help inform the publication of the final master plan early next year. Although, the public exhibitions have now all taken place, we still welcome your views and encourage you to respond before the consultation closes at 5pm on 10 January 2019.
If you were unable to attend our exhibitions, you can read our public information below and let us know your thoughts by responding to our online consultation or by post.
Respond to our consultation
Your views are important to us as we consider how best to grow Gatwick Airport sustainably, including making best use of the existing runways in line with Government policy.
Public exhibitions
All of our public exhibitions have now taken place. The dates and times are listed below. If you missed out, then you can still read the full draft master plan online or by visiting one of several public libraries (also listed below).
Horsham
Date: Saturday 3 November
Time: 15:30-19:30
Location: The Barn, Causeway, Horsham, RH12 1HE
Croydon
Date: Thursday 8 November
Time: 15:30-19:30
Location: Centrale Shopping Centre, Croydon, CR0 1TY
Tunbridge Wells
Date: Saturday 10 November
Time: 11:00-17:00
Location: Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2SS
Brighton
Date: Monday 12 November
Time: 14:30-18:30*
Location: Churchill Square Shopping Centre, Western Road, Brighton, BN1 2RG
Crawley
Date: Saturday 17 November
Time: 11:00-17:00
Location: County Mall Shopping Centre, Crawley, RH10 1FG
Horley
Date: Saturday 24 November
Time: 15:30-19:30
Location: Horley Leisure Centre, Anderson Way, Horley RH6 8SP
Gatwick
Date: Monday 26 November
Time: 09:00-16:00
Location: Gatwick Airport in the South Terminal Arrivals Hall.
The venues have been selected across the Gatwick region to enable a reasonable travelling time, both by car and public transport.
*The times for the Brighton event are slightly different from those originally published.
Respond to our consultation
Your views are important to us as we consider how best to grow Gatwick Airport sustainably, including making best use of the existing runways in line with Government policy.
In 2019, we will publish a final master plan document which will consider the feedback received during the consultation period.
If you would like more information, our details are:
Tel: 0808 168 7925
Email: gatwickdraftmasterplan@ipsos-mori.com
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