Hello everyone, We've just heard that City Airport has asked Newham Borough Council if they can double the size of the terminal. Their planning application includes a request to build an extended taxiway and bigger parking stands so that larger aircraft can use the airport. It also wants to provide more car parking spaces. So now City Airport are not only trying to get all planes to fly over one narrow flight path, but they'll be bigger too! So the next action for us is to write to Newham to tell them why you object to these planning applications. Unfortunately, the closing date is this Friday 23 January so as ever, we need to act quick. If you want to object, then please email sunil.sahadevan@newham.gov.uk at Newham Council, putting “13/01228/FUL and 13/01373/OUT” in the title line of the email. Feel free to adapt the following template: ~~~ Dear Mr. Sahadevan, I live under a London City Airport flight path and am concerned about the above consultations. I urge Newham to reject the application for the following reasons: 1. If the expansion works go ahead, there is no guarantee that the larger planes that will be able to use the airport will be quieter than the current aircraft and I already have to tolerate a significant amount of noise from its planes. 2. The bigger planes will also convey more passengers, and this will result in more traffic on the local roads, leading to increased levels of pollution, noise and congestion. Regards, [NAME, FIRST PART OF YOUR POSTCODE] ~~~ In other news, we've been busy planning other activity and will keep you updated in the next few weeks. Adam & Eleanor