{"id":306553,"date":"2025-07-31T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306553\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:20:16","slug":"scott-brownrigg-draws-up-rival-heathrow-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306553\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brownrigg draws up rival Heathrow expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scheme drawn up by the practice, dubbed Heathrow West, was submitted to the government today (31 July) by the Arora Group, an existing landowner at the major west London airport.<\/p>\n<p>It claims its proposals will save on both costs and disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Arora\u2019s plans feature a shorter runway than earlier official proposals, drawn up by Grimshaw as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/news\/grimshaw-heathrow-expansion-back-on-after-supreme-court-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stalled \u00a314 billion plans<\/a> for Heathrow Airport\u2019s expansion, which the property group says will avoid building over the M25.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to saving billions, Arora has suggested the shorter, 2,800m-long runway offers \u2018faster delivery, reduced costs and improved environmental impact\u2019 in comparison with a full-length 3,500m runway. This new runway could be fully operational by 2035, Arora claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Heathrow West scheme includes a new terminal, Terminal 6, located west of the existing RSHP-designed Terminal 5. This would open in two phases, in 2036 and 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Surinder Arora, founder and chairman of the Arora Group, said: \u2018The Heathrow West proposal delivers squarely on the secretary of state\u2019s and chancellor\u2019s ambition to obtain planning permission by the end of this parliament, with a fully operational runway by 2035.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In July, chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/news\/reeves-third-runway-for-heathrow-old-trafford-support-and-18-new-towns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Reeves announced<\/a> the government\u2019s backing for a third runway and expansion of Heathrow after previous legal challenges stalled the Grimshaw-designed scheme over climate concerns. However, this was overturned by the Supreme Court in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow Airport has yet to formally submit its own expansion plans but those are expected to emerge either today or tomorrow. The AJ understands the airport has retained Grimshaw as architects on its proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Both submissions follow the Department for Transport\u2019s invitation for proposals for a third runway to be brought forward by this summer, which could be operational by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow Airport has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scheme drawn up by the practice, dubbed Heathrow West, was submitted to the government today (31 July)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947819154920649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}