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Stop Bristol Airport Expansion! (SBAE) is an alliance comprised of the following groups:

Bristol Friends of the Earth »
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) »
The Parish Councils Airport Association (PCAA)

Stop Bristol Airport Expansion

Help us to prevent a wanton increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the use of green fields for parking thousands of cars, increased traffic on narrow roads and an extra 6 flights per hour on average (and worse at busy times).

Walkway Latest:
South Area Committee meeting
Weds 14 May, 6pm

BIA is trying to use "Permitted Development" to build a "walkway" - in fact a structure with 8 separate departure lounges within it that will be as large as 56 terraced houses.

YOUR SUPPORT IN THE AUDIENCE AT THIS MEETING IS CRITICAL to show the strength of local opposition to BIA's plans to grow without even putting in a proper planning application.

Register your support!

By registering with SBAE we can keep you up to date with the campaign and let you know as soon as any public consultations start and how you can respond. Your support is crucial to our campaign.

Your Questions Answered

Negotiating the facts and fictions surrounding aviation and its environmental and economic consequences can be confusing. We've prepared a page to answer your questions about aviation and airport expansion, particularly about BIA's expansion plans.

Visit our question and answer page »

Business West report biased and weak

March 31, 2008

Business West commissioned researchers at UWE to compare two economic reports on the consequences of expanding BIA. Instead of this being an open and in-depth analysis of the methods, evidence and conclusions of those reports, we consider that the new study shows considerable prejudgment and bias, and a weakness of analysis.

Read our commentary on the report »

UK Citizens fly more than any other nationality in the World

March 3, 2008

A recent report by independent, global market research company TGI entitled "Green values: Consumers and branding" claims that "British people collect most air miles per head".

Read the report on the TGI website »

Launch of AirportWatch South West

February 12, 2008

Stop Bristol Airport Expansion has joined forces with other anti-airport campaigners throughout the South West to fight expansion at all the region's airports.

Read our press release about the launch (52 Kb)

Representatives from this new group met a group of the region's MPs at the House of Commons and received a very positive response.

Read our press release about the meeting with MPs (44 Kb)

Planning Application 07/P/3214/PAI

January 14, 2008

Immediately before Christmas BIA submitted a planning application to North Somerset Council under a General Permitted Development Order to construct a walkway between the terminal building and the western apron.

We believe that the development that has been applied for is in fact a terminal extension by stealth to enable expansion and has nothing to do with easing any current operational problems. This will impact massively on local communities with more traffic on local roads, more noise and more light pollution. More flights will add to North Somerset's contribution to the region's CO2 emissions.

Furthermore, Stop Bristol Airport Expansion has identified that the development the airport is asking for actually exceeds the constraints put on permitted development.

We insist that this application should be changed from a general permitted development order to one that is a full planning application. This will allow Councillors to make the decision, the public to express their views, and an environmental impact assessment to be submitted.

BIA announces that planning applications will be delayed until 2008 - but continues to expand

October 18, 2007

Despite its announcement that planning applications will be delayed until well into 2008, the addition of Ryanair flights means that the airport expects usage to rise to 7 million mppa next year. This means annual emissions from flights from Bristol International Airport will make a greater contribution to climate change than several entire nations.

Read our press release about the delay to planning applications (160 Kb)
Read our press release about the comparison between BIA emissions and other nations (160 Kb)

New document from airport denies expansion will have significant local impact

July 5, 2007

Read our press release (152 Kb)

Shadow transport minister acknowledges Bristol airport is at capacity in meeting with campaigners

June 18, 2007

shadow transport minister Julian Brazier

In a private meeting, Shadow Minister for Transport Julian Brazier MP told representatives from SBAE campaign “It is clear that there are huge infrastructure constraints on Bristol airport’s expansion. The airport is at capacity in terms of the road network."
Read the press release (148 Kb)

North Somerset Council sends strong
message over significant concerns

Feb 21, 2007

At a full council meeting of North Somerset Council on February 20th, the council raised significant concerns about:

"...the absence of a viable and sustainable surface access strategy..."
"... the need for an independent environmental and biodiversity impact assessment..."
" ...answer anticipated growth in noise and other pollution
issues"
"...the need for an independent assessment into the economic cost/benefit impact on local and regional businesses..."
"...call for full consideration of the Stern Report relating to climate change effects of an expanded airport..."
"...We particularly note the apparent contradictions of expanding Bristol International Airport whilst calling for reductions in emissions from Bristol industry in order to attain Government targets..."