Heathrow expansion would displace thousands of jobs from UK regions, DfT analysis shows

Up to three million people living near the proposed runway face significant adverse health and wellbeing impacts from construction and increased flight operations.

For decades, Heathrow's third runway has been framed as a gift to the whole nation — a great engine of growth whose benefits would radiate outward from London to every corner of Britain. Now the government's own analysis quietly tells a different story: that expansion would not so much create prosperity as relocate it, drawing jobs and investment away from regions that need them most toward a capital that already commands the lion's share of public infrastructure. In a country newly led by a prime minister who has staked his identity on rebalancing that very imbalance, the political and moral

Heathrow expansion would displace thousands of jobs from UK regions, DfT analysis shows

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