The recovery of costs associated with obtaining planning permission for a new northwest runway at Heathrow Airport: Policy Statement

This document sets out our policy in relation to the recovery of costs associated with obtaining planning permission for the new runway and capacity expansion at Heathrow Airport. These costs are termed Category B costs.

We are issuing this Policy Statement now in order to give reasonable certainty with respect to the regulatory treatment of this important category of costs. We will make proposals to modify HAL’s licence to put these proposals into effect later in the process, as part of a full package of amendments to support the development of the capacity expansion.