1. How expansion at Heathrow will drive change in the economic region
Realising the Vision
How expansion at Heathrow will drive change in the economic region
07 July 2015
Jonathan Deegan / Heather Cheesbrough

2. The airport as economic engine
Growth delivered by Heathrow Expansion: 2040 employment projections
Heathrow site
35,000+
new jobs
Our local area
50,000+
new jobs
London and SE
70,000+
new jobs
Across the UK
180,000+
new jobs

3. Where will this growth happen?
Future 60mins
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Crossrail impact on Heathrow’s one hour travel zone

4. Developing a holistic vision for Heathrow’s Opportunity area
HILLINGDON
SOUTH
BUCKS
EALING
SLOUGH
RBWM
Heathrow New Garden City
HOUNSLOW
SPELTHORNE

5. Heathrow New Garden City
We have a long established relationship of partnership working with Heathrow to ensure that the residents of Hounslow who suffer the greatest of all boroughs from noise and air pollution also benefit from the airport economically. To understand just how important the airport is to our economy, we led on the Heathrow Local Economic Impact Study in The airport employs over 114,000 people locally with a further 100,000 jobs in the wider west London area and corridors beyond.
At Hounslow, although we believe ‘Better not Bigger’ we also believe that we need to work together with Heathrow to solve problems and key to that is planning strategically to consider how the airport can benefit our borough and the wider sub region through enhanced public transport, new employment and housing.

6. Southern Rail Access
The Southern Rail Access has been endorsed by the Davis Commission and we have been investigating the feasibility of an alignment that will bring massive regenerative benefits to Feltham and greatly enhance the existing Bedfont Lakes Business Park through the creation of two new stations. This will enable much greater intensity of development.
Feltham is only a mile and half from Heathrow but has no rail connection to the airport, and so its deprived population misses out on the massive and varied employment opportunities, whilst a station at the Clock House junction would create a new front door to the airport with the Heathrow Gateway. A major new commercial opportunity of offices, hotels and ancillary uses.

7. Hounslow West of the Borough Plan
We are as part of our new West of the Borough Plan, reviewing our Green Belt boundaries to see which parts are meeting their purposes and which could be released for other uses. The London Plan requires Hounslow Council to ensure delivery of at least 8,222 homes by 2025, and to ‘augment’ this where further opportunities can be created for sustainable growth. A Heathrow Opportunity Area (including parts of Hounslow and Hillingdon boroughs) is identified as an Opportunity Area; this Visioning responds to this opportunity. The Council will develop a West of Borough Plan using this Visioning work and other evidence, including a review of the Green Belt.
Encapsulating a holistic vision in the West of the Borough Plan will ensure development comes forward in a considered and coherent way regardless of the decision taken about the location of additional runway capacity.

8. Heathrow Gateway

9. Bedfont Lakes Neighbourhoods

10. Airport Business Park

11. Working together to deliver the vision