Luton Airport, wholly owned by the town’s financially-struggling council, is scaling back its expansion plans to save “the best part of £1bn” on its original £2.4bn price tag, NCE sister-title Local Government Chronicle (LGC) has learned.
Heathrow Airport’s controversial third runway received a boost this month with the airport resuming the purchasing of houses close to the proposed runway.
Construction is nearing completion on Luton’s Direct Air-Rail Transit (Dart) project to connect Luton Airport with Luton Airport Parkway railway station.
The Civil Aviation Authority has given Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) consent to recover £500M of costs spent on its expansion programme under its next five year price control period.
Network Rail staff working on the Western Rail Link to Heathrow have been moved on to other projects with no sign of the mothballed scheme restarting any time soon.
A design consortium led by Grimshaw and including Mott MacDonald has been selected as the winner of an international competition for Shenzhen Airport East Integrated Transport Hub in China.
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has reappointed Arcadis as an advisor to its Economic Consultancy Services framework for an additional four years.
Southampton Airport’s expansion plans have been given the green light, after Eastleigh Borough Council overruled its own area committee.
The £150M expansion of Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) has been put on hold after the government stepped in to prevent the proposals from gaining formal planning consent.
Following on from the success of NCE’s Future of Transport virtual events last autumn, it has been confirmed that the conferences will remain virtual this year as the programmes for the first three events are revealed.
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