Heathrow and Stansted expansions are scrapped
AIRPORT campaigners were celebrating yesterday after BAA axed plans for two new runways.
Applications for a third runway at Heathrow and a second at Stansted, in Essex, were ditched after the new Government said it would block both of them.
Campaigners said the Stansted application alone had cost BAA £200million.
Carol Barbone, campaign director of Stop Stansted Expansion, said: “This is a day to rejoice. It is not every day that a local community is victorious over powerful big business interests.”
Greenpeace spokesman Ben Stewart said villages “threatened by bulldozers can start to rebuild their communities”.
BAA Chief executive Colin Matthews said: “We continue to believe that new capacity would strengthen the UK’s trading links.”