Home Page Link Thaxted - under the present flightpath and threatened with quadrupled activity Takeley's 12th century parish church, close to proposed second runway Harcamlow Way, Bamber's Green - much of the long distance path and village would disappear under Runway 2 Clavering - typical of the Uttlesford villages threatened by urbanisation
Campaigning against proposals to expand Stansted Airport

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139 Organisations Support SSE!!

PRESS RELEASES
Press Release 20 August 2008 SSE Response to Competition Commission Report on BAA
Press Release 8 August 2008 Teddy Bears Picnic at the SSE Wood at Broxted Hill
Press Release 21 July 2008 Community to the Fore in Overturning Second Runway Plans
Press Release 17 July 2008 Ruth Fiddles while Stansted Burns
Press Release 30 June 2008 Let the Train Take the Strain
Press Release 11 June 2008 The Rise and Fall of Stansted Airport
Press Release 15 May 2008 Shakespearean Support for Stop Stansted Expansion
Press Release 12 May 2008 Stansted Expansion Impacts on the Northern Braintree Parishes
Press Release 9 May 2008 SSE Heritage Postcards to Fight Second Runway Threat
Press Release 8 May 2008 NATS Extension Pointless unless Questions are Answered
Press Release 22 April 2008 BAA Compulsory Purchase Powers to be Examined
Press Release 21 April 2008 Showtime at The Barn is a Roaring Success
Press Release 18 April 2008 Residents Get to Grips with Half a Million Planes Overhead
Press Release 15 April 2008 SSE Publishes Guidance on Airspace Changes Consultation
Press Release 8 April 2008 SSE Helps Community Get to Grips with 2nd Runway Application
Press Release 8 April 2008 Saffron Walden Proposed Flight Path Changes
Press Release 4 April 2008 SSE Comment on Proposals for an Eco-Town at Elsenham
Press Release 4 April 2008 BAA Will Be Beaten on Second Runway Plans
Press Release 17 March 2008 Storm Force of Opposition Lines Up to Challenge BAA Plans
Press Release 11 March 2008 BAA Planning Application is an Act of War
Press Release 10 March 2008 Response to BAA's Application for a Second Stansted Runway
Press Release 29 February 2008 SSE Condemns False Data Provided by BAA to Public Inquiry
Press Release 21 February 2008 Winners and Losers Emerge from Proposed Flight Path Changes
Press Release 12 February 2008 Snowdrops Spectacular at the Gardens of Easton Lodge
Press Release 11 February 2008 Terry Waite and Zac Goldsmith Join Forces on Airport Expansion
Press Release 31 January 2008 More 'Ifs' and 'Buts' on Stansted New Runway Plans
Press Release 30 January 2008 Cheap Flights "Squeezing the Life Out of British Tourism"
Press Release 15 January 2008 Decision not to de-designate Stansted Airport
Press Release 24 December 2007 2007 - A Year of Encouragement for SSE - Less so for BAA
Press Release 12 December 2007 Stansted Posts Slump in Passengers as Jobs Fears Mount
Press Release 10 December 2007 SSE Supporters March for Action on Climate Change
Press Release 26 November 2007 Playing Politics and High Finance with People's Lives
Press Release 21 November 2007 Another UK Record Deficit as Cheap Flights Increase
Press Release 29 October 2007 Lunch with Lord Hanningfield Raises £1200
Press Release 19 October 2007 Stansted Public Inquiry: "Refusal" is the only logical outcome
Press Release 29 Sept 2007 2008 Community Calendar Launched
Press Release 24 Sept 2007 Road and Rail Issues in the Spotlight at Stansted Public Inquiry
Press Release 18 Sept 2007 Union Picketing of Stansted Public Inquiry
Press Release 15 Sept 2007 It's Humanity's Backyard - not BAA's, says Will Self
Press Release 13 Sept 2007 MP to Give Evidence at Stansted Expansion Inquiry
Press Release 10 Sept 2007 Support the British Economy - Stop Stansted Expansion
Press Release 21 August 2007 Stansted Public Inquiry Resumes 4 September
Press Release 20 August 2007 Will Self to Lead Runway Ramble Against Stansted Expansion
Press Release 9 August 2007 Competition Commission Statement on BAA
Press Release 6 August 2007 Teddy Bears Get Together at Gardens of Easton Lodge
Press Release 3 August 2007 "Trickery, Deceit and Manipulation"
Press Release 21 July 2007 Inuit Leader to Give Evidence at Stansted Public Inquiry
Press Release 17 July 2007 "No Basis for BAA's Economic Claims" Inquiry Inspector Told
Press Release 13 July 2007 Stop Stansted Expansion Public Inquiry Evidence Starts
Press Release 9 July 2007 Picnic in the SSE Wood with Terry Waite CBE
Press Release 9 July 2007 Polar Bears Picnic at the Gardens of Easton Lodge
Press Release 26 June 2007 Picnic in the SSE Wood with Terry Waite CBE
Press Release 3 June 2007 SSE Cycle Rides Attact 200 Riders
Press Release 30 May 2007 Opening Salvos Fired as Stansted Public Inquiry Opens
Press Release 22 May 2007 Public Inquiry Opening Day Media Opportunities
Press Release 18 May 2007 Flitch Way Family Cycle Ride
Press Release 16 April 2007 Posh Frocks Sale in Aid of Airport Inquiry Appeal
Press Release 4 April 2007 Will Self to Lead Protest Walk Against Stansted Expansion
Press Release 30 March 2007 BAA Referred to the Competition Commission
Press Release 21 March 2007 BAA Attempts to Prevent Proper Examination of Expansion Plans
Press Release 13 March 2007 Cheap Flights take Priority over Saving the Planet
Press Release 27 February 2007 Road and Rail Issues Relating to a Second Stansted Runway
Diary Date for 5 March 2007 Pre-Inquiry Meeting into Airport Expansion
Press Release 12 February 2007 Chancellor Urged to Close Air Passenger Tax Loopholes
Press Release 4 February 2007 Think Global - Act Local!
Press Release 30 January 2007 Ferrovial's Plan for Stansted 'Belligerent and Irresponsible'
Press Release 26 January 2007 BAA's Announcement on Proposed Second Runway Siting
Press Release 15 January 2007 SSE to Hold Third Major Community Conference
Press Releases Archive - August 2002 to December 2006

MAPS
BAA's Proposed Stansted Airport Boundary Map issued on 27/01/04
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Stop Stansted Expansion Protest outside the Hilton Hotel, Stansted on 31 August 2002
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CARTOONS
Cartoon created by David Higham from an original idea by Melissa Cowley
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For Further Information Contact

SSE Campaign Office
PO Box 311
Takeley
Bishop's Stortford
Herts CM22 6PY
Tel: 01279 870558
Email: info@stopstanstedexpansion.com

Media enquiries: Carol Barbone 0777 552 3091 or cbarbone@mxc.co.uk


Notes to Editors

The Stop Stansted Expansion campaign group operates as a working committee of NWEEHPA (North West Essex and East Herts Preservation Association) and is actively supported by the following organisations: 

Abbess Beauchamp & Berners Roding Parish Council
Albury Parish Council
All Saints Nazeing Wives Group
Ashby Rise Trust
Aviation Environment Federation
Bengeo Rural Parish Council
Berden Parish Council
Birchanger Parish Council
Birdbrook Parish Council
Bishop's Stortford Civic Federation
Bishop's Stortford & District Footpaths Association
Black Notley Parish Council
Boreham Conservation Society
Bradfield Parish Council
Bradwell Parish Council
Braughing Parish Council
Brent Pelham & Meesden Parish Council
Brickendon Liberty Parish Council
Broxted & District Community Association
Broxted Parish Council
Campaign Against Unsustainable Stansted Expansion
Chantry Community Association
Chickney Parish Council
The Chiltern Society
Chrishall Parish Council
Colne/Stour Countryside Association
CPREssex
Debden Parish Council
Dedham Vale Society
Eastwick and Gilston Parish Council
Elsenham Parish Council
Epping Town Council
Epping Upland Parish Council
Essex Wildlife Trust
Felsted Parish Council
Finchingfield Parish Council
The Friends of Epping Forest
Friends of the Earth (Saffron Walden & District)
Friends of the Earth (Stort Valley)
Furneux Pelham Parish Council
Fyfield Parish Council
Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign
Good Easter Parish Council
Great Bardfield Parish Council
Great Canfield Parish Council
Great Chesterford Parish Council
Great Dunmow Town Council
Great Easton Parish Council
Great Hallingbury Parish Council
Great Munden Parish Council
Greenstead Green & Halstead Rural Parish Council
HACAN ClearSkies (Heathrow)
The Hadstock Society
Hatfield Broad Oak Parish Council
Hatfield Heath Parish Council
Helions Bumpstead Parish Council
Hempstead Parish Council
Henham Parish Council
Henham Village Magazine
Hertford Civic Society
Herts & North Middlesex Ramblers Association
High Easter Parish Council
High Ongar Parish Council
High Roding Parish Council
High Wych Parish Council
Hockerill Residents Association
The Hoddesdon Society
Hunsdon Parish Council
Ickleton Parish Council
The Ickleton Society
LADACAN (Luton and District Campaign Against Noise)
Leaden Roding Parish Council
Leicestershire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
Linton Parish Council
Little Bardfield Parish Council
Little Canfield Parish Council
Little Dunmow Parish Council
Little Easton Parish Council
Little Hadham Parish Council
Little Hallingbury Parish Council
London Luton Airport Town and Village Communities Committee
Long Distance Walkers Association (Essex Herts Group)
Lush Cosmetics
Manchester Airport Environment Network
Manuden Parish Council
Margaret Roding Parish Council
Matching Parish Council
Moreton, Bobbingworth & The Lavers Parish Council
Much Hadham Parish Council
Nayland with Wissington Conservation Society
Newport Parish Council
North Weald, Bassett & District Rural Preservation Society
Portland Residents Association
Quendon & Rickling Parish Council
Radwinter Parish Council
Rivenhall Parish Council
Roydon Parish Council
The Roydon Society
Saffron Walden Library Society
Saffron Walden Town Council
The Sampfords Parish Council
Shalford Parish Council
Sheering Parish Council
Sible Hedingham Parish Council
SLAP (Stop Luton Airport Plan)
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
South Suffolk Aircraft Tracking Action Group (SSATAG)
Stanstead Abbotts Parish Council
Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council
Stansted Preservation Association
Stanway Residents Association
Stapleford Abbotts Parish Council
Stebbing Parish Council
Stisted Parish Council
Stocking Pelham Parish Council
Stop Bristol Airport Expansion
Sustainable Transport and Environment for the Eastern Region (STEER)
Takeley Local History Society
Takeley Parish Council
Thaxted Festival
Thaxted Parish Council
Theydon Bois Parish Council
Thorley Manor Residents
Thorley Parish Council
Toppesfield Parish Council
Ugley Duckling Nursery School
Ugley Parish Council
United Reform Church Friendship Group, Great Dunmow
University of the Third Age (Bishop's Stortford Branch)
UPROAR (Dublin)
Uttlesford Group of the Ramblers Association
Ware Residents Against Stansted Expansion (WRASE)
The Ware Society
Watermill Estate Residents Association
West Essex Ramblers Association
Widdington Parish Council
Widford Parish Council
Wilderness Foundation
Willingale Parish Council
Wyddial Parish Council

Publication of the Air Transport White Paper in 2003 allowed the Government to take a step backwards. BAA can no longer hide behind the Department for Transport and is the prime target for SSE's campaign to prevent expansion. On behalf of tens of thousands of residents, Stop Stansted Expansion will pursue a relentless campaign of challenges against BAA – legal, commercial, planning and regulatory. SSE expects its campaign to continue for years rather than months until proposals for a second runway are eventually abandoned or rejected on environmental or economic grounds. The more immediate task is to fight the environmentally unsustainable proposals to expand use of the existing runway beyond the approved limit of 25 million passengers per annum.

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