2 hours ago Campaigners opposing Gatwick Airport enlargement person mislaid 2 High Court challenges against the authorities but person said they volition see an appeal.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander approved a £2.2bn program successful September to determination Gatwick's exigency runway 12 metres north, allowing a two-runway operation.
The anti-noise radical Cagne and campaigner Peter Barclay told a proceeding successful January the strategy was unlawful, claiming the authorities had not decently assessed clime impact.
Ruling earlier, Mr Justice Mould dismissed some bids, concluding the strategy would not "materially impact" the government's quality to conscionable nett zero targets - a determination London Gatwick called a "victory for communal sense".
The Department for Transport (DfT) and the airport's owner, Gatwick Airport Limited, had defended the challenge, with lawyers for the tract claiming it was "unarguable".
The strategy is expected to summation Gatwick's capableness from astir 280,000 flights a twelvemonth currently, to 389,000 by the precocious 2030s.
Travel writer Simon Calder said the enlargement of Gatwick Airport would beryllium "nothing but an overwhelming positive" for passengers.
He said it was "the archetypal meaningful airdrome enlargement successful decades", adding: "Certainly for the system of the Gatwick area, and for travellers successful southbound eastbound England, this is thing but an overwhelming positive."
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