Andy Burnham refuses to back Heathrow’s third runway

It's not right for me to just jump straight in on the back of the consultation, he continued.”Burnham, being Manchester's mayor, had been opposed to the project due to apprehension that it would delay investment in transport of the North..The project’s projected cost of £33bn has sparked fierce local and environmental backlash from local residents as well as the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.Primarily, a third runway would mean demolishing….

It has been observed that the number of flights from the site is capped at 480,000 a year and could rise up to 720,000 a day on average.Heathrow this weekend also acknowledged that meeting the original deadline would be difficult to achieve without further steps to streamline the entire planning process.

Furthermore, the Department for Transport said the timeline had always been aspiring and asserted it would continue to work with stakeholders who are moving expeditiously on the matter.

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, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has declined to confirm his support for a third runway at Heathrow after it emerged that the expansion of the London airport could be delayed by up…