Heathrow plans for 9,000-home new garden city

Heathrow chiefs today unveiled plans to create a three-runway “aerotropolis” in west London with a 9,000-home new garden city.

In his first speech since the Airports Commission recommended a new runway at Heathrow, the airport’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye told how it would be reshaped to better fit into the local environment and economy.

“When you are relocating hotels and offices, why not put them next to the rail interchange, so that we can have fewer cars on the road — an aerotropolis, if you like,” he told a Runways UK conference in central London. Read more..,

A strategy was disclosed by Mr. Holland-Kaye to increase public transport use by more than 10 % over the next four years in order to cut air pollution and this strategy will leads to turn a new developing way to all the Heathrow transfers.