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London is already served by two airports, at Heathrow and Gatwick. In December 1970 a Government-appointed Commission, under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Roskill, recommended that a third airport should be built at Cublington in Buckinghamshire, some 45 miles from the centre of London (see Fig. 9.0.1), and that the first of the airport’s proposed four runways should be built in 1980. The recommendation was the outcome of a lengthy inquiry into a number of possible sites, of which four were short-listed for detailed analysis. Of the seven members of the Commission, only one, Professor Colin Buchanan, dissented from the majority view.1
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Dasgupta, A.K., Pearce, D.W. (1972). The Siting of London’s Third Airport. In: Cost-Benefit Analysis. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15470-8_10
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