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<p>The Department cannot prevent Heathrow Airport from a) informing or b) consulting
with communities who may be affected by airspace change. Heathrow, as the airspace
change sponsor, is responsible for conducting their own consultations on airspace
change. Heathrow Airport Limited has already undertaken two stages of public consultation
at the scale and size that they deemed appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department
understands, for their consultation on airspace design principles in early 2018, Heathrow
Airport Limited advertised to over 12 million people, making it one of the largest
private sector led consultations with the public in the UK’s history.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore,
Heathrow Airport Limited has now concluded a consultation on its airspace design envelopes.
These are the wide geographic areas in which flight paths would be positioned in future.
The exact flight paths, which will be much narrower and run through these envelopes,
will not be determined until later in the airspace change process. It would be as
part of Heathrow Airport Limited’s third consultation on airspace that specific proposed
routes would be presented.</p><p> </p>
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