this will make life terrible for most of west and central london. if you live in fulham, chiswick, acton, kew, shepherd's bush, earl's court, right up to central london you are in for a nasty shock - your property values and quality of life (if you are an asthmatic like me you may as well move now!) are all about to suffer.

it is very important that this is stopped - isnt heathrow big enough already?

dave johnson, acton, london, london

I live in Chertsey and i know only one thing. My life is made utterly miserable by ther aircraft passing over my house at seemingly very low heights much of the time. From my perspective i dread each night having to endure the awfull noise every 2 minutes. it is impossible to get to sleep and totally erodes the tiny bit of quality of life we had left. Heathrow is a totally inappropriate site for an airport catering for this level of air traffic; and i have grave doubts of the necessiity of the majority of these flights. In an age where we are supposed to be pollution concious the current activity is ridiculous never mind expansion. it is for me intollerable now, little wonder people are abandoning the UK in drones. In no other so called democracy are the population so passive to the abuse and indignities visited upon them by their government. We deserve all we get because we just accept everything. How many airport top brass and government ministers live below the flight path ? Wake up

dave smethurst, chertsey, surrey

Time to thinking about closing Heathrow and moving to a new purpose built facility somewhere between London and the Midlands. A superfast train service linking the two cities and extending to Manchester could then be built to cut down on internal flights - why just build a high speed train to Paris and Brussels?

Steve W, London,

I am paying taxes so this Government can plot and scheme to enable BAA (Ferrovial) to increase its profits by decimating the community where I live, wiping another off the map and bringing misery to an extra 100 thousand West Londoners.


IF this outrage goes ahead we face here the biggest forced eviction of a civilian population in peacetime.


Most intelligent people are aware too of the hypocrisy of a Government planning the biggest expansion of aviation for years at the same time as pretending to be concerned about global warming.


Christine M Shilling, Harmondsworth

christine m shilling, Harmondsworth, UK

Build the 3rd runway before the alliance of greens and nimbies plunges us all into a new dark age where we can't drive, can't fly, can't turn the light on and only eat home grown food. We must bring our airports into the new century or we can enter the slow lane and watch Europe become the gatway to the US.

Pravin, London, UK

Why is anyone surprised at this? BAA are effectively the Government's 'airport builder', supposedly regulated by an 'independent' economic regulator - the Civil Aviation Authority, who in turn are staffed by individuals seconded from HM Treasury with a remit to do little other than implement Government policy.

The incestuous means through which BAA operates and indeed is regulated really does deserve some meaningful public scrutiny. This is just one more example of an all to cosy relationship with Government that makes a mockery of the planning system, public democratic opinion, and economci regulation in this country.

Simon, Surrey, UK