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The Supreme Court has today accepted an appeal by Heathrow Airport against a February 2020 decision to ban the development of a third runway on environmental grounds.
The decision to develop a third runway at Heathrow, driven by the airport being effectively full and a lack of capacity elsewhere in the south east of the UK, dates back to 2015.
In that year, the Airports Commission under Howard Davies recommended the option of an additional runway at the airport ahead of other options to increase airport capacity in the region.
The UK’s then secretary of state for transport Patrick McLoughlin accepted the case for airport expansion and announced in October 2016 that the North West Runway (NWR) scheme was the preferred scheme.