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Project leads at Gatwick Airport have unveiled the constraints of constructing its new recently opened rapid exit taxiway, Echo Romeo.

Gatwick Airport has developed a cloud-based geospatial data platform to make engineering and construction works safer by reducing accidental strikes on buried utilities.

Network Rail’s £249M redevelopment of Gatwick Airport station has opened today after Costain completed its construction.

A coalition of London businesses has written to the chancellor urging him to commit to a capital funding settlement with Transport for London (TfL) in order to “keep the capital moving, so that it can drive growth, investment and job creation that benefits the UK as a whole”.

The long-awaited Development Consent Order (DCO) application to convert Gatwick Airport’s emergency runway into a second runway is expected to be submitted within the next two weeks.

Airport expansions have been firmly on the back burner in recent years, with climate considerations and the pandemic-driven fall in passenger numbers creating rising uncertainty.

The chief executive of EasyJet Johan Lundgren believes that expansion should not be the priority of Gatwick Airport at this moment in time.

Gatwick Airport has revealed the construction timeline for its proposed dual-runway expansion.

Proposals to expand Gatwick to a dual-runway airport are “deceitful” and fail to adequately consider the impact expansion will have on the surrounding area, according to one campaign group.

Gatwick has announced plans to reposition the centre line of its northern runway north by 12m to allow it to be brought into regular use.