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Chris Nash, Community Protection Principal stated there were no planning representatives available that could go through the details of the HSPG. However, much of the last meetings’ work continued with methods used in assessing health impacts and there would be a follow up session in March 2019. He added that work on land mass use and how it occurred, such as borrow pits, had been postponed; the river rerouting work was ongoing; and a discussion on climate change workshop was occurring on field discussions around construction impacts.

Councillor Hilton stated the impacts of the third runway were so far reaching. He attended a Heathrow engagement meeting and had a conversation with the Director of Coln Park who had been invited on to the Engagement Board. He was became very cynical in a very short space of time and it was interesting that at such an early stage some significant players were to walk away.

The Chairman stated he went to the HSPG meeting and there were over 60 attendees from South Herts, St Albans, Newham and South Bucks; and they were discussing the use of air space and runways and he was surprised they were there asking questions on air space. They were asking for night flights to begin after 5.30am. the Chairman asked where the flights would go between 4.30am and 5.30am and the answer was that the airlines would need to reschedule them; however, he imagined they would still have a quota of landing aircraft. The Chairman commented when he was at West London University, there was a question of trust with Heathrow so he stood up and asked how can we trust Heathrow when they reneged over the Cranford Agreement. He was told they changed their mind and that they had £10m of work to do and they did not want to do it. The Community Protection Principal stated when discussing night flights, the Airport Commission recommended there should be no flights between 11pm to 6am but, that had been ignored and lost on Heathrow. The Chairman stated the aircraft showed the path flew over RBWM and taxis and that was how they operated so aircraft were landing much earlier. Councillor D. Wilson said he was pleased the Chairman and Councillor Hilton had attended the HSPG but, he was concerned about how attendees were chosen. He added with a third runway, the effects over Maidenhead would be quite great. In 2018, disruption also increased for the Ascot area; he asked if Councillor Coppinger attended as Lead Member for Health. The Chairman stated it appeared Councillor Coppinger and the Head of Planning should be attending the HSPG meetings but, there were there only as observers because RBWM were not considered to be one of the five Boroughs of interest; no Borough’s to the west of Heathrow were on the Community Engagement Boards.

The Community Protection Principal stated the HSPG had evolved but, there was an executive board and a summit. Councillor Coppinger attended the executive board and that had also been attended by officers. A further workshop had been attended by Robert Paddison and the Community Protection Principal made sure relevant officers were aware of the meetings. Councillor Hilton explained there were layers of meetings with some overlap. The invitation to the meetings was always sent to the Leader and he then passed on invitations to the Chairman and himself.

A local resident, John Holstock stated that as a resident he wanted a better understanding of the HSPG. The word Planning seemed to be linked to land but, he had never heard about that, they always discussed air space. He asked who the Aviation Forum reported to and how did parties resolve issues. The Community Protection Principal explained the HSPG was another mechanism to get the best deal from a bad situation. There were 11 local authorities that were members that put forward comments and the airport took them into account, although it might not act on those comments. Air space was linked to air quality and the HSPG looked at methodology on how that was measured. The Secretary of Stated said the HSPG could hear everything on methodology at DCO level. The Community Protection Principal added the Borough would submit comments on methodology and the HSPG would consider them. The response to the air space matter needed to be received by 4 March 2019 and the ground surface consultation would be in the summer before going to the DCO.

Councillor D Wilson stated Heathrow was the strategic planning group and when producing the Borough Local Plan (BLP) for submission, the Borough needed to submit a Housing Needs Assessment; however, the expansion at Heathrow meant the Borough then needed to add a further 5,000 dwellings to the assessment but the Council were already struggling to meet the Borough’s housing needs so, to increase the amount of dwellings by 5,000 caused problems trying to find where those houses would be built. He added if the HSPG was looking at the ground and potential jobs being created if they were allowed to go ahead with the third runway, how did Heathrow come to the conclusion that 5,000 new extra homes would be needed. Councillor Hi8lton stated that the figure did appear but, it was potentially contentious so Heathrow said there was unemployment in the surrounding areas and so the third runway would use those unemployed people and no new homes would be required. The Community Protection Principal commented that the Forum needed to see what the DCO said as the Council could not rely on the figure of 5,000 new dwellings. Officers were looking into the matter. Councillor Beer said the figure was part of the Davis Airport Commission findings. It went against every bit of fair competition. Heathrow thought they would need an extra 70,000 employees and so would need 70,000 new dwellings spread across 14 Borough’s but, Heathrow never said which Boroughs they would be. There was no evidence for it with over 100 pages of documentation from the Davis Commission but only one page on housing. The HSPG was set up to facilitate the third runway; the HSPG said it was not there to promote a third runway but there were so many contradictions.