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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Heathrow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Nigel Smales and I attended the Heathrow Airport consultation in the Nicolson centre. This was run by Heathrow Airport itself, whereas the earlier consultations were government led.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Not a great deal has changed and flight paths are still not published. When they are that is when we will see the real impact on Taplow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>There were a lot of sensible proposals concerning alternating uses of the runways, both directionally and timing-wise to ameliorate and spread impact. However most of these are of interest only closer to the airport.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The comments made earlier by ourselves do not seem to have had any impact. The design principles that Heathrow list include (6b) “minimising the number of people newly overflown”. This sounds nice until you re-phrase it as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“If you are presently overflown you will experience all the increase in traffic”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The other principal of concern to Taplow is (6f) “Minimising total population overflown”, which is a recipe for sending it all over Taplow rather than widening the route corridors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>There is a general claim that new technologies will give much greater control over the precision of flight paths. This was poorly presented as showing a wide distribution of paths within a corridor moving to a single narrow line, which won’t be nice if your house is under it. However, in reality, as all airlines use different versions of systems to comply, there will still hopefully be appreciable spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Sing for the Trees Saturday 9th March, 2-4pm, Old Priory Gardens</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Next Saturday you are invited to join a celebration of trees in Old Priory Gardens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The event, led by Zoe Hatch and Songs of Evolution, is in support of 'TreeSisters: women seeding change' <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Details in the attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Planning<br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Most of the planning applications we have commented on are still pending and in the last month there have been no new applications in Taplow. Have we frightened off the developers??<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Roger Worthington, Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>07787556309<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>