This Saturday 10th June is set to see a large scale
Protest March and Rally against the Heathrow Airport expansion and night flights, supported by:
London Boroughs and Local Councils:
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Richmond
- Wandsworth
- Windsor & Maidenhead
- Slough
Campaign groups:
- HACAN ClearSkies -Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise
- NoTRAG - No Third Runway Action Group
- Friends of the Earth
- AirportWatch
Will Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, who is on record as opposing the plans for a 3rd runway, turn up to milk the press and media coverage ?
Locations and Timetable:
"The day starts from about 9am when processions of vans and floats start off at various town halls and converge on Harlington at 11.30am.[...]
9.00 Hammersmith Town Hall
9.45. Ealing Town Hall
9.45 Tesco's car park, Windsor
10.30. Hounslow Civic Centre
11.15. Friends of the Earth and other vans arrive at Harlington
11.30. Procession leaves Harlington (Nobel Drive, near corner of Bath Rd and Harlington High Street, (behind the Heathrow Bowl)
- "There will be parking available; it is also well served by bus routes (222, 81 and H98 from Hounslow; 105 from Southall; 111 from Heston; 90, 285, 555, 556, 557 from Hatton Cross; 81 from Slough; 222 from West Drayton and Sipson)"
From Harlington Corner near the airport, the procession will pass the Heathrow Point West offices of Heathrow Airport owners British Airports Authority (who are now in the process of being taken over by a Spanish company Ferrovial)
See the BAA Heathrow Airport Interim Master Plan
The procession will be joined by people from the Second Starting Point at the Community Centre, Sipson Recreation Ground.
- "There will be parking available; it is served by bus routes (222 and 81 from Hounslow; 285 from Hatton Cross; 81 from Slough; 222 from West Drayton)"
"1.00pm. Procession arrives in Harmondsworth for rally and speeches.
- "Parking available. The U3 bus which runs between Heathrow Airport and Uxbridge via West Drayton serves Harmondsworth. There will also be mini-buses to ferry people back to Harlington.
1.30pm. Rally ends.Hlowever, football is not forgotten and at 2.00pm England's World Cup match starts on the big screen. There will also be entertainments such as bouncy castles and jugglers; there are two pubs and teas/coffees."
