On the 3rd April, The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, overruled planning inspectors' objections and granted a development consent order for Luton airport’s plans to expand and add a new terminal, enabling it to handle a potential 32 million passengers a year - a near doubling of the airport’s capacity.

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And the decision to allow expansion flies in the face of the Climate Change Committee’s guidance that no net increase in air travel should take place unless aviation is outperforming its emission targets.

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The environmental and health effects will be huge - more air pollution from planes and vehicles going to the airport, more aircraft and road noise and a huge increase in greenhouse emissions from the additional flights.

But this is not the end of the road.

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Campaign group LADACAN has received legal advice that the Secretary of States decision may have been unlawful, and they are seeking judicial review of the decision. Expansion at other airports has been halted in this way, and could well be successful here. 

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With your help, LADACAN can challenge the decision to allow expansion at Luton Airport and stop the huge damage to the health of local people and environment that it would cause.

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Will you chip in to put a halt to Luton Airport expansion?