Boris didn’t need to commission Doug Oakervee to analyse the whole thing, the House of Commons has just produced a perfectly good overall survey of the evidence here [PDF]:
In 1958, Mr Richard Harris MP (Con, Heston and Isleworth), noting that aircraft noise was “now becoming intolerable for about a million people in South-West Middlesex”, asked the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation to consider removing what was then London Airport
[Heathrow] to “a coastal area which is much better fitted to take some of these new, screaming monsters which frighten the life out of our constituents.”1 Fifty years later, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who had earlier described the development of Heathrow as a ‘planning error’, announced a feasibility study into the development of a new airport in the Thames estuary.
Good, solid background research there. Read it, and be better informed than Boris.
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