Dear Mr Poupard,

Here's an example you can use (but personalising this message would be much more effective).

Planning application No. 08/06944/FU Statement of objection I am writing to you to formally object to the application for the extension to the terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport to facilitate growth of the airport to accommodate 5 million passengers per annum (mppa) by 2012. This level of growth, which accelerates still further the doubling of passenger numbers since 2002, is inconsistent with both the Air Transport White Paper 2003 and the airport's own Airport Master Plan. The planning application only takes the airport to 2012; the City Council must consider what will happen to continued growth after that date, which the airport have stated is their intention. The application will cause a series of major environmental problems which the airport are seeking to ignore or conceal, and for which they are not proposing solutions: - More road traffic: all 2 million extra passengers every year will have to use the local road network, and the airport are not proposing any response to this huge increase (except evermore surface parking on greenfield sites). The UDP and the Government say they need to respond, and that the airport should pay. - More flights: on top of the increase by 10,000 in recent years, the airport has not disclosed how many this will be and the impact on noise for residents under the flight path. If current levels of plane occupancy are maintained this would result in 70000 flights per year. - More climate change emissions: following the Climate Change Act 2008 all businesses and households in Leeds will have to reduce their emissions by challenging amounts every year, whilst the airport greedily eats into the city's reducing carbon budget with more leisure flights not essential for the Leeds economy and community. I strongly urge the Planning Committee to reject the application on these grounds.

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