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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Neil Lancefield

Luton airport expansion given green light by Government despite advice to reject plan

Luton airport’s expansion plan has been approved by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander despite a recommendation she reject it.

The Cabinet minister gave the go-ahead to the Bedfordshire airport’s development consent order (DCO) application regardless of advice from the Planning Inspectorate that she should turn it down over environmental concerns.

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