National planning policy statements (NPS) across industries should be updated to consider the UK’s commitments under the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, a number of Lords have said.
Lord Whitty said that “the whole of the NPS needs to be revised in light of the commitment to net zero” and added that…
Plans to build a southern rail link to Heathrow have been buoyed by the departure of the government’s former chief strategist Dominic Cummings, according to those looking to build the route.
The chief executive of Heathrow Southern Railway Ltd Chris Stokes has claimed that the project is more likely to get…
Air passenger numbers may not recover to pre-Covid levels until 2024, London City Airport’s chief development officer has said.
Speaking at NCE Future of Airport’s conference London City Airport’s Peter Adams said that the airport’s development plans were reliant on revenues rebounding. However Adams added that the dip in passenger numbers…
The former head of Heathrow Airport expansion Phil Wilbraham has joined Keltbray in a major shake-up of the firm’s senior management.
The company has appointed Wilbraham as chair of Keltbray’s group risk committee as well as a non-executive position on the board of the main company. He formerly held the role…
Construction of a new station building at Gatwick Airport has begun.
The £150M project has already seen the closure of platform 7 and now its return, while demolition work will soon begin on the footbridge and platforms 5 and 6, which are now out of service. Work is expected to be…
The new Terminal 1 at Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (BER) opened at the weekend with the landing of the first two aircraft operated by easyJet and Lufthansa.
It was originally due to open in 2011, while the site was chosen in 1996. However poor planning, flawed design and construction issues…
NCE’s virtual Future of Transport will kick off next Monday afternoon with the Future of Bridges conference looking at lessons learned from recent failures, challenges facing inspection sector and how bridge design needs to evolve to meet the carbon net zero challenge.
The week will continue with Future of Airports on…
Almost 200 UK and European airports could go under due to the pandemic-driven drop in air travel, which could have a knock-on effect on contractors working in the sector.
Data published by Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), which represents airport operators, shows that 193 out of Europe’s 740 commercial airports…
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has knocked back Heathrow Airport Ltd’s (HAL) plea for an additional £1.7bn to cover the impact of Covid-19.
In July, HAL submitted a request for an additional £1.7bn to be added to its regulatory asset base (RAB) “to help protect it from the consequences of the…
A Supreme Court judge will have the final say on the Heathrow third runway proposal as the airport operator locked horns with environmentalists over expansion plans.
Lawyers for Friends of the Earth urged the Supreme Court to uphold an earlier court decision which effectively ruled Heathrow's third runway proposal as unlawful…
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