Campaigners denied appeal over Gatwick expansion
An application to stop the two-runway operation is rejected, with judges calling it "unarguable".
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"We are very disappointed with the Court's decision. We took this challenge as far as we could because we believed that the decision to allow Gatwick to expand was fundamentally flawed."
— Peter Barclay , Activist
"We are also very pleased that this ruling, from senior Court of Appeal Judges, brings to an end an eight-year planning and legal process which has carefully tested and scrutinised every aspect of our expansion plans on multiple occasions."
— Pierre-Hugues Schmit , Executive
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An application to stop the two-runway operation is rejected, with judges calling it "unarguable".
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