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UK Minister of Transport, Heidi Alexander, indicated that she will agree to a second runway in Gatwick if the airport has made changes to his plans, as the government is betting on the great expansion of London airports to enhance economic growth.

Alexander said she was considering approving the plans later this year if the airport agreed to “a set of controls to run the plan.

These include the strongest targets to reach public transportation to the site and implement the noise reduction scheme, according to officials.

The plan of the planning inspector recommended Thursday refusal GatwicThe original application, but he unusually said it will approve the application if the changes are made.

Alexander Gatwick gave a final date on April 24 to renew his plans.

In a statement of a written minister, Alexander said that she had issued a “thinking to agree to a letter” for the second runway.

However, she said she needed “additional time” to search for views from the relevant parties, and has extended the deadline for her final decision by nine months until October 27.

Gatwick did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the proposed changes of the government on the construction plan of 2.2 billion pounds.

The project will greatly expand the capacity by moving the landing bar in the second most airports in Britain, 12 meters north. The transition would put enough space between the tape and the current runway so that both of them can work at the same time.

The project can see the planes take off from the second runway by the end of the current parliament in 2029.

One of the government officials said that the decision was an “important step forward” that showed how the government would stop nothing “to provide economic growth.

They said, “Expansion will bring huge benefits to business and represent a victory for vacationers.” “We want to provide this opportunity in line with our legal, environmental and climatic obligations.”

Gatwick, about 30 miles south of central London, said this second runway will enable him to deal with up to 75 million passengers annually by the late thirties of the twentieth century, up from the record number 46.5 million passengers who used the airport in 2019.

The Planning Inspector demanded that Gatwick adopt a binding goal of at least 54 percent of passengers who annually reach the airport through public transport. Gatwick has previously argued that he does not want the target to be legally binding, and both sides will now seek to obtain a compromise.

The GATWICK planning inspector also requested the original mitigation plan to reduce noise.

GATWICK has presented its expansion plan as a relatively low-risk method to add a new runway to the airport capacity in London-compared to the long-acting and political-displaying suggestion to add a The third runway in Heathrow Since most of the work will happen within its current borders. But local activists said that they would challenge any decision in favor of a new runway in Gatwick in the courts.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said last month that flights could take off from a third runway in Heathrow “During a decade”. She said that Heathrow’s expansion will open more growth, enhance investment, increase exports and make Britain more open and more associated.

The only Hub Airport administration in Britain has pledged to submit detailed proposals this summer. But some of the work deputies are still skeptical of Heathrow’s expansion, unlikely to be granted planning permission until the end of the current parliament in 2029.

Alexander due to the judgment on the expansion plan at Luton Airport, to the north of London, in the coming weeks.

Whitehall officials said she is keen to agree to the expansion of LUTON – which does not include a new runway, but will include building new infrastructure, peripheral ability and taxis – as long as concerns about noise can be addressed to Chiltern Hills.

Stantct plans in London and their expansion plans were approved.

Combated, expanded airports can deal with 309 million passengers annually – an increase of 85 percent over 167 million use in 2023, the last year with full data for them, according to the analysis of the Vinancial Times times.

Reeves said last month that the airport’s expansion was compatible with the goal of the pure government, which is 2050, referring to a “cleaner and more green flight” through the so -called sustainable flying fuel.

But climate groups have argued that this increase in the number of passengers would be incompatible with the target of 2050, in light of the difficulty of removing carbon.

This story has been updated to clarify that Minister of Transport Heidi Alexander gave herself until October to make a final decision.