Heathrow submits ‘shovel-ready’ plans for third runway | Heathrow third runway
By: Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent | Published: 2025-07-31 23:01:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
Heathrow has submitted its “shovel-ready” plans for a third runway as part of a £50bn investment, as the government said expanding Europe’s largest airport could create 100,000 jobs and drive growth.
The 2-mile (3.2km) runway expansion would cross a diverted M25 and allow more than 750 additional flights a day over London, helping bring the total annual number of passengers to 150 million.
Environmental campaigners called it a “doomed scheme” that would release millions of tonnes of CO2 while benefiting only a small minority of rich flyers.
Heathrow said that with government support it could obtain planning permission by 2029 and have the runway in operation by 2035.
Its proposals remain essentially the same as those submitted in 2019 and…
