Future Luton Airport Ltd Making Best Use of Our Runway a Luton Council Company Statement of Community Consultation (Socc) Statutory Consultation 2019
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London Future LuToN Airport Ltd Making best use of our runway A Luton Council company Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC) Statutory Consultation 2019 1 2 Contents 01 Introduction 04 02 Statutory consultation 09 03 Publicising the consultation 17 04 Engagement 20 05 Next steps 22 Appendices 25 01 Introduction Project description • Vehicle forecourt and multi- Our application will include • For local businesses – storey short-stay / mid-stay car replacement parkland and public we will offer greater London Luton Airport Limited parking adjacent to the terminal open space to compensate for opportunities to trade (LLAL), owner of London Luton • Mid- and long-stay parking the area of existing parkland into We recognise that any airport Airport (LTN), is publishing which the airport would expand. this Statement of Community • Bus station, taxi ranks and has impacts as well as benefits, Consultation (SoCC) to outline Luton DART in forecourt area A map showing the boundary of and one key purpose of our how we will carry out our the proposed development can summer 2018 consultation was • Support buildings statutory community consultation be found in Appendix 1 of this to identify the effects that local on our proposals to expand • Relocated engine ground document. people are most concerned LTN by making best use of the running bay To achieve the increase in about. We are committed to working with our partners, existing runway. • Fire training facilities passenger numbers, we are also proposing associated airlines, local communities, The permitted capacity of • Improvement to fuel storage improvements to surface access statutory bodies, and the LTN is currently 18 million facilities transport infrastructure, including government, to avoid, reduce, passengers per annum (mppa). and mitigate potential adverse Our expansion project would • Replacement of existing and roads and the airport forecourt. planned public open space and impacts. increase the capacity of the Our key objectives for the amenities airport to 32 mppa. This would project, as identified in our Vision This SoCC is required under require a new terminal on the • Road and infrastructure for Sustainable Growth, 2020- Section 47 of the Planning Act north side of the existing runway, provision and adjustments 2050 (which can be read on our 2008. It outlines how we will and other landside and airside consult those living in the vicinity This new terminal would be website: futureluton.llal.org.uk), infrastructure. are: of LTN including residents, used alongside the existing interest groups, businesses, and The proposals would include: terminal and its associated • For local communities – we will airport users. Section four of • Terminal facilities with stands, allowing the expansion be a better neighbour this document sets out how we to be phased over time to boarding piers • For our airlines – we will enable will promote this consultation match demand and growth. This to those groups, to ensure that • Additional aircraft stands you to grow cost-effectively approach would also minimise as many interested parties as • For our passengers – we will • Additional taxiways disruption to the operation of the possible have the opportunity to improve choice and your airport during construction. comment on our proposals. experience 4 01 Introduction DCO process Under the Planning Act 2008, we defines “host” authorities as significance, including economic are required to consult on our those authorities for the area impact, noise, and surface As our project is seeking consent proposals before submitting the within which the land for the access, we have also consulted for airport-related development DCO application. Feedback from proposed development is with a wider group of local that would expand the permitted the consultation will be recorded located, which are: authorities on the draft SoCC, capacity of LTN by over 10 and carefully considered in including: mppa, it is a type of development • Luton Borough Council developing our proposals. As • Aylesbury Vale District Council and of a scale that meets the part of the DCO process, we • Hertfordshire County Council thresholds to be a Nationally must satisfy PINS that our pre- • North Hertfordshire District • London Borough of Barnet Significant Infrastructure Project application consultation has Council • Bedford Borough Council (NSIP) for the purposes of the been carried out adequately and • Central Bedfordshire Council • Buckinghamshire County Planning Act 2008. fulfils all of the statutory criteria, Council As such, we must apply to the including the duty to publicise We set up a Consultation Group, Secretary of State for Transport and the duty to have regard to a working group which included • Cambridgeshire County for a Development Consent responses. representatives from the above Council councils, to discuss how best Order (DCO) to consider This document sets out how • Dacorum Borough Council to engage local communities and determine the proposed we will carry out our community in the statutory consultation • East Hertfordshire District development. NSIP applications consultation under Section 47 of programme. Council are examined by the national the Planning Act 2008. Planning Inspectorate (PINS), As the nature of airport • London Borough of Enfield In accordance with Section 47(2) and decided by the secretary expansion proposals generate of the Planning Act 2008, this • Essex County Council of state, rather than the local issues of more than a local planning authority. We aim to document has been prepared in • London Borough of Harrow submit our DCO application in consultation with the following summer 2020. “host” local authorities. Section 43(1) of the Planning Act 2008 5 01 Introduction • London Borough of Hillingdon Planning Act 2008 concurrently EIA development scope of the EIA (“a scoping with our community consultation opinion”) from PINS. This • Huntingdonshire District Our project will also require under Section 47. Consultation scoping opinion is available Council Environmental Impact activities under Sections 42 and in the document library on Assessment (EIA), as defined • Milton Keynes Borough Council 48, with local authorities and our project website: by the Infrastructure Planning other statutory consultees, will futureluton.llal.org.uk • South Cambridgeshire District (Environmental Impact be addressed separately from Council Assessment) Regulations 2017 In addition to the EIA, and in this SoCC. • St Albans City & District (“the 2017 Regulations”). EIA is accordance with regulation Council In addition to having their views therefore being carried out so 12 of the 2017 Regulations, on the scheme considered as that the significant effects of the a Preliminary Environmental • Stevenage Borough Council part of our consultation, anyone proposals on the environment Information Report (PEIR), will be • Uttlesford District Council will also be able to register and are properly understood and produced. The PEIR will take on • Welwyn Hatfield Borough make representations to PINS to identify the necessary board the scoping opinion, set Council the once the application has mitigation measures and inform out our survey methodologies, been submitted. PINS and the secretary of state and describe the initial findings The consultation programme You can read more about the on the full impact. of the assessment. This will described in this document takes be published and available to DCO process on our website As part of the EIA, we will submit into account comments received read as part of the consultation (futureluton.llal.org.uk) or on an Environmental Statement from these local authorities. documentation and made the planning inspectorate to PINS. The Environmental available for comment as part We will also be conducting website (infrastructure. Statement will describe the of the statutory consultation statutory consultation under planninginspectorate.gov.uk). significant impacts identified by process. Sections 42 and 48 of the To find out more, you can also the assessment. We have also call LLAL on 01582 548782 obtained an opinion on the (phoneline open Monday-Friday, 9am – 5pm), please leave a message where necessary. 6 01 Introduction About us London Luton Airport Limited Owner of (LLAL) is the owner of London London Luton Airport Limited Luton Airport (LTN). Our Luton Borough Council (LBC) company is, in turn, wholly owned by Luton Borough Council. As such, LTN is unique in that it is the only major UK airport remaining wholly publicly- owned. The airport is operated Airport Owner under a concession agreement (until 2031) by London Luton London Luton Airport Limited Airport Operations Limited (LLAL) (LLAOL). This chart represents our relationship with our key stakeholders. Airport Operator Regulators Users Concession Department for Transport Airlines London Luton Airport Civil Aviation Authority Business Aviation Operations Limited Environment Agency Cargo airlines (LLAOL) Customers General public and businesses 7 01 Introduction Our summer 2018 consultation The objective of our summer A full account of how we carried was held over ten weeks, 2018 consultation was to collate out this consultation, and the beginning on Monday 25 June feedback from the public, results, can be found in the 2018 and ending on Friday businesses, statutory bodies and report entitled Non-Statutory 31 August. other organisations and interest Consultation Feedback Report, At our summer 2018 groups, so that we could reflect February 2019, which