Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to host Heathrow’s expansion in an announcement on Wednesday, includes the BBC.
In principle, a decision to encourage planning request for a third track at the airport will mark the first step in the process and will be part of a major discourse on wider growth plans to stimulate the economy.
The government cannot prejudge the results of an official planning request for a specific track program, and the BBC understands that there will be no public money for the project announced on Wednesday.
The announcement will probably be anger activists – including within the Reeves Labor Party – who oppose a third track for decades due to environmental concerns.
In an article in the Times, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that broader government plans “would denounce the obstacles to construction, would eliminate regulatory weeds and allow a new era of British growth to flower.”
Heathrow’s announcement comes after weeks of advice, the workforce would support the controversial expansion of the airport.
Reeves told the BBC on Sunday that it would not comment on “speculation” when it was asked if the government would support a third track, but added that “sustainable aviation and economic growth went hand in hand”.
Heathrow has long argued that expansion is necessary to help him follow rival airports in Europe, which manage fewer passengers with more tracks.
In December, the airport boss said he needed a “clear jack” by the government by the end of 2025 to put the plans advanced.
However, even with the announcement expected on Wednesday, a third track in Heathrow could still be far away.
Questions remain around which will fully finance the work on the M25 motorway around London and other transport links. The road may need to be re -trained through a tunnel under the third track.
Another potential obstacle is the quantity of civil aviation Authority (CAA) will allow Heathrow to transmit the costs of the first development works to airlines.
Many airlines have already expressed their concern in relation to the likely costs. The CAA was one of the regulators who presented ideas to the Chancellor on how to stimulate growth during a number 11 meeting earlier this month.
The other problem is to know how the clean party of Reeves can react to a third track in Heathrow.
The office of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told the BBC that he had “long -standing opposition to the expansion of the airport around London” due to the impact on air quality and the noise.
Reeves’ speech on Wednesday will also focus on development between Oxford and Cambridge to create a “Silicon Valley of Europe”.
The government wants thousands of houses and a new rail link to be developed in the region.
The Government will also examine the so -called “green pound” rules – the directives issued by the Treasury on how to assess policies, programs and projects – which, according to him, have biased infrastructure expenses in the past in Fast growth areas, mainly in the South.
The government aims to approve the new major infrastructure more than once a half days for the whole parliament.
A Prime Minister said they made large long -term decisions ignored by previous governments knowing that “the advantage will only be achieved after this parliament, but these are the right long -term decisions”.
The treasure is convinced that there will be “spikes in the ground long before that”.
The main difference, said a Prime Minister, was that the government will demonstrate that when the growth program conflicts with something else, it “will make difficult decisions”.
The conservatives retaliated to work growth plans.
“The biggest obstacles to the growth of this country are Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer, and their work to destroy the budget,” said Ghost Chancellor Mel Stride.
“Hastilyment, tinkered together, growth announcements in the 2030s will do nothing to help companies cut jobs now.”
The spokesperson for the Liberal Democratic Treasury, Daisy Cooper, said: “Trying to stimulate growth without repairing our trade relations with Europe is like driving with hand brake.”
Lib Dems call for “a new customs union from the United Kingdom which would put rocket boosters under the economy”.
Reeves previously suggested major projects like Heathrow must move forward to help the British economy grow.
However, despite the words of the government on growth, the economy remains slow.
The January figures revealed growth in November, but the expansion of 0.1% was lower than that planned.
