Department for Transport: Adding capacity at Heathrow airport - Public consultation

"This is a consultation on ways in which Heathrow airport could be developed over the next 20 years or more. It reports on the outcome of work since the Air Transport White Paper in 2003 and describes how additional runway capacity might be provided, its likely impacts and how they might be addressed." DfT Consultation (site here and resources here)

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Heathrow News

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Research Companies

There are a number of companies that get their money by doing research. YouGov, MORI and Populus are three of these companies.

MORI Research
YouGov Research
Populus Research
ICM Research

24dash is a website that brings together current and past polls.

You can also search the word 'poll' within the websites of relevant organiations. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs did a survey in 2007 to find out people's attitudes to the environment, for example. TravelWeekly is a publication for the travel industry that has articles on Heathrow and the Financial Times (ideal for economic evidence) has a webpage devoted to Heathrow.

If you're looking for more indepth information you could also try Intute. They have lots of research on air travel, but you will need to find the right titles.

Heathrow Statistics

You will be needing to research both primary and secondary data to complete your coursework. Here are a few places to get your started, all of which have been found by members of the class:

Heathrow Airwatch

London Air Quality

Civial Aviation Authority
Aircraft spotting

Institute of Acoustics

Future Heathrow

National Statistics

Coursework Support Websites

Visit these websites for more guidance on writing your coursework...

Geography Pages
Learn on the Internet
GCSE Bitesize