Airports
The UK is in need of new runways, terminals and airports if it is to meet the projected growth in demand for air travel over the coming years. But the delivery of such infrastructure divides opinion, given concerns over local and global environmental impacts. The result is that obtaining consents for new airport infrastructure is becoming an increasingly high profile, complex and hard fought exercise.
With one of the largest dedicated legal teams in the UK specialising in the planning, authorisation and delivery of major infrastructure projects, we are experts in guiding promoters and objectors through the process. We can help you with:
- advice on the necessary statutory approvals for airport infrastructure
- preparing application documents
- strategic environmental assessment of draft plans and programmes
- environmental impact assessment of projects
- proposals for the compulsory acquisition of necessary land
- public inquiry representation
- objector management and the negotiation of agreements with stakeholders
- advising objectors on the scope and settlement of objections
- legal challenges in the courts
- a sound stakeholder and public consultation programme
- communications and public policy issues, such as media relations and working with central government
- procurement
- commercial and property agreements
New regime for Airport Development
By 1 March 2010 a radical new regime will be in place under the Planning Act 2008 in England and Wales for seeking permission for nationally significant infrastructure projects. That regime will cover large scale airport construction and expansion (i.e. capacity increases of over 10,000,000 passengers or 10,000 air cargo movements per year). It will no longer be possible to authorise such projects by means of a planning permission.
Bircham Dyson Bell, in conjunction with Butterworths, have produced a unique Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects to provide both promoters and objectors and their advisers with a user-friendly, practical, step-by-step explanation of the new regime. It includes detailed guidance on the issues which arise during the development of major projects such as airports, in particular in relation to national policy statements, environmental impact assessment, consultation and the management of objections.
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