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Consultation on Revised Draft Airports National Policy Statement Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement Summary report of consultation responses June 2018 A report to the Department for Transport Prepared by OPM Group OPM Group Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement – Summary report of consultation responses Client Department for Transport Company OPM Group Title Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement Subtitle Summary report of consultation responses Status Final Classification Public Project Code DfT2 Quality Assurance by Helen Ashley Main point of contact Ilina Georgieva Email [email protected] If you would like a large text version of this document, please contact us. 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Public Final Page 2 of 150 OPM Group Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement – Summary report of consultation responses Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................... 5 List of acronyms ........................................................................................................ 9 Chapter 1: About the consultation ..................................................................... 13 Background ................................................................................................. 13 Consultation process .................................................................................. 13 Role of OPM Group .................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2: Participation ...................................................................................... 17 Introduction ................................................................................................. 17 Response channels .................................................................................... 17 Response categories .................................................................................. 18 Response sectors ....................................................................................... 19 Geographical breakdown of respondents .................................................. 20 Campaign responses .................................................................................. 24 Co-ordinated responses ............................................................................. 25 Chapter 3: Methodology ...................................................................................... 27 Receipt of responses .................................................................................. 27 Developing the coding framework .............................................................. 29 Using the coding framework ....................................................................... 31 Approach to reporting ................................................................................. 31 Chapter 4: Reading the report ............................................................................ 33 Introduction ................................................................................................. 33 Use of numbers .......................................................................................... 33 Report structure .......................................................................................... 33 Chapter 5: Comments on passenger demand forecasts and the economic and strategic cases ................................................................................................. 35 Overview ..................................................................................................... 35 Comments on the updated passenger demand forecasts ......................... 35 General comments on passenger demand and economic case not related to the updated passenger demand forecasts ........................................... 45 Chapter 6: Comments on noise .......................................................................... 50 Overview ..................................................................................................... 50 Public Final Page 3 of 150 OPM Group Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement – Summary report of consultation responses Comments on the updated noise analysis data ......................................... 50 Comments on the UK Airspace Policy ....................................................... 55 General comments on the perceived impact of airport expansion on noise not related to the updated noise analysis data ........................................... 58 Chapter 7: Comments on air quality and carbon emissions .......................... 65 Overview ..................................................................................................... 65 Comments on the updated air quality data ................................................ 66 Comments on the updated carbon emissions data.................................... 69 General comments on the perceived impacts of airports expansion on air quality, not related to the updated data ........................................................... 70 General comments on the perceived impacts of airports expansion on carbon emissions, not related to the updated data .............................................. 75 Chapter 8: Comments on policy and drafting changes ................................... 77 Overview ..................................................................................................... 77 Comments on revisions to the draft Airports NPS made as a result of a change in government policy ................................................................................ 77 Comments on drafting changes to the draft Airports NPS made in order to clarify intention .................................................................................................. 81 Other comments on policy, not related to changes in the revised draft Airports NPS ......................................................................................................... 83 Chapter 9: Other comments ............................................................................... 85 Overview ..................................................................................................... 85 Comments on the three shortlisted schemes ............................................. 85 Surface access ........................................................................................... 96 Other impacts ...........................................................................................105 Consultation process and materials ......................................................... 120 Appendix A: List of participating organisations ............................................ 126 Appendix B: Examples of each campaign type ............................................. 131 Appendix C: Codes by theme and count ........................................................ 133 Appendix D: A copy of the response form ..................................................... 146 Public Final Page 4 of 150 OPM Group Consultation on revised draft Airports National Policy Statement – Summary report of consultation responses Executive summary This report provides a summary of the responses to a consultation by the Department for Transport on the revised draft Airports National Policy Statement (NPS). It was a nationwide consultation open for 8 weeks between 24th October 2017 and 19th December 2017 and carried out in accordance with the Government’s Consultation Principles. The purpose of the consultation was to allow members of the public, organisations, and any interested parties to comment on updated documents published after the conclusion of an earlier consultation on the draft Airports NPS. The consultation asked a single question: Do you have any comments on the revised draft Airports NPS or any of the documents set out in the table at pages 7 and 8 of the further consultation document? Consultation process The consultation was owned and managed by the Department for Transport (DfT). OPM Group was commissioned to receive, collate and analyse responses to the consultation submitted via the webform, email, and the Freepost address set up for this consultation. In total, excluding null responses, this consultation received 11,028 responses. 8,708 of those were identified as campaign responses with or without variations, organised by two campaign groups, one supporting Heathrow Northwest Runway (8,294) and another opposing it (414). 177 responses were sent by recognisable organisations or elected representatives, and the remainder were submitted by individuals. Chapters 3 and 4 of this report offer a detailed description of OPM Group’s approach to the handling, analysis and reporting of responses. Consultation responses This report summarises respondents’ views by considering comments made in relation to changes in the updated documentation (revisions) as well as general comments on the topic areas. This executive summary provides an overview of some of the key themes and issues that were raised in response to the consultation, and which are presented in greater detail in subsequent chapters of this report.
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