Ministers have pledged £273M to further the cause of futuristic air transport initiatives such as flying taxis, electric planes and rapid-infrastructure-assessment drones.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced the cash injection today as he unveiled 48 winning projects across two major competitions. A drive to create automated manufacturing capabilities for solar cells…
This time last year, the government published its long-awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan.
It set out the government’s roadmap to offsetting carbon emissions on the UK’s roads, railways and in the aviation sector. So what was promised in the strategy - and what has (or hasn't been achieved)? Rail electrification pipeline The…
London City Airport has returned to expansion plans which were put on ice in 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19.
The airport has launched a 10-week public consultation on plans to increase annual passenger numbers from 6.5M to 9M. To handle the additional passenger numbers, London City Airport has confirmed…
Wholesale aviation decarbonisation rests on new technologies some years away from scaled up implementation, so the built environment sector must do what it can to accelerate the decarbonisation of airports now.
As a sector committed to reducing carbon emissions and limiting the impact of climate change, our long held practices…
Airport owners and operators need to plan for the delivery and storage of hydrogen now if they are to be ready to fuel hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035, according to research by Jacobs.
Jacobs' Airports as Catalysts for Decarbonisation report provides a roadmap for airports to implement hydrogen fuelling technologies. The company…
A High Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge mounted against the expansion of Southampton Airport.
Justice Holgate has ruled that Eastleigh Borough Council’s decision to grant planning permission for a runway extension at Southampton Airport was not unlawful and therefore will not undergo judicial review. The airport planned for…
A group of NGOs has written to aviation minister Robert Courts calling on the government to withdraw its policy support for airport expansion.
The group - made up of the Aviation Environment Federation, AirportWatch, Friends of the Earth, Green Alliance, Greenpeace, Possible and Transport & Environment - wants the government to…
Campaigners against the expansion of Bristol Airport have been granted a hearing in the High Court later this year.
It’s the latest in a tug-of-war about the expansion, which would increase the airport’s capacity from 10M to 12M annual passengers. North Somerset Council rejected the scheme in February 2020, but this…
A High Court ruling on whether the decision to grant planning permission for the extension of the runway at Southampton Airport was unlawful is expected in the coming days.
The airport is looking to extend the northern end of its runway by 164m, which remains within its current boundaries, saying it…
The Transport Committee has told the government that it must review the powers granted to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to facilitate the introduction of more environment-related mandates for the sector, but experts warn it is likely to fall on deaf ears.
In its new report, UK aviation: reform for take-off,…
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