By . Ray Massey, Transport Editor . PUBLISHED: . 04:44 EST, 2 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 20:47 EST, 2 November 2012 . The new airport tsar clashed with Boris Johnson yesterday by announcing that all options for expansion are ‘on the table’. Sir Howard Davies said these included controversial extra runways at Heathrow and Gatwick. But this put him on a collision course with the London Mayor, who backs a  so-called ‘Boris Island’ mega-airport in the Thames Estuary. London Mayor Boris Johnson today said he would . not necessarily accept the conclusions of the government's airport . capacity review, which is being carried out by Sir Howard Davies . Mr Johnson warned that going into the . next general election, due by 2015, with the prospect of a third runway . at Heathrow still on the agenda would be ‘toxic and disastrous’ for the . Tories. Sir Howard, chairman of the Airports . Commission, accepted that the Coalition has ruled this out for this . Parliament and that no second runway can be built at Gatwick until after . 2019. But, he declared: ‘Options after that are open. A third runway at Heathrow is on the table.’ Sir Howard will also look at other . radical suggestions. These include creating a four-runway Heathrow to . the west of the existing site and proposals for the estuary airport in . Kent or expansion elsewhere in the country. His six-strong commission will produce . an interim report next year on future aviation policy. This will set . out ‘options’ and some short-term action, including making better use of . existing runways around the capital and regions. But the final report, with more . significant and controversial plans for the longer term, will not appear . until summer 2015, after the last possible date for the next election. Any proposal to expand Heathrow would prove controversial for people living in homes in west London . Sir Howard said he would ‘make best use of time in the long grass’ to give the next government ‘a  flying start’. Mr Johnson, however, wants Sir Howard . to ‘accelerate his timescale’. He derided the Coalition for ‘a policy of . utter inertia’ and described delays to deciding aviation plans as a . ‘fudgerama’. ‘It’s going to be toxic and disastrous . to go into the election of 2015 with Heathrow runway three still on the . agenda, millions of Londoners still in a state of great anxiety and . uncertainty about whether or not they are going to suffer from severe . noise pollution,’ he said. But Sir Howard stressed: ‘The . Coalition is prepared for us to look broadly at all the options on the . table as well as some that are not so a government can come to it after . the election with an open mind.’The aim would be to build ‘political consensus’ which is currently lacking, he added. Other options he will examine include expanding Stansted,  Birmingham or Cardiff airports. Critics have questioned the . impartiality of some members of his commission. They include Sir John . Armitt, former Network Rail and Olympic Delivery chief, who is currently . undertaking policy work for Labour leader Ed Miliband. Sir Howard also pledged to look at potential compensation for homeowners living around Heathrow if he backs a third runway. ‘We need to look at that,’ he said. ‘We could try it out on Nick Clegg who lives in Putney.’ So too does former Transport Secretary . Justine Greening, who also opposes the third runway because of the . noise blight for her constituents. The Prime Minister’s office denied the . issue had been kicked into the long grass. David Cameron’s spokesman . said: ‘People on different sides of the debate have  particular . entrenched views. ‘Often those different options and . different ideas about how we should approach the issue of  airport . capacity are put forward without the evidence.’
London mayor makes new attack on government over 'toxic' air policy .
He tells airport tsar Sir Howard Davies to speed up and decide before 2015 .
And warns that Heathrow Third Runway could cost Tories the election .
By . Ray Massey, Transport Editor . PUBLISHED: . 04:44 EST, 2 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 20:47 EST, 2 November 2012 . The new airport tsar clashed with Boris Johnson yesterday by announcing that all options for expansion are ‘on the table’. Sir Howard Davies said these included controversial extra runways at Heathrow and Gatwick. But this put him on a collision course with the London Mayor, who backs a  so-called ‘Boris Island’ mega-airport in the Thames Estuary. London Mayor Boris Johnson today said he would . not necessarily accept the conclusions of the government's airport . capacity review, which is being carried out by Sir Howard Davies . Mr Johnson warned that going into the . next general election, due by 2015, with the prospect of a third runway . at Heathrow still on the agenda would be ‘toxic and disastrous’ for the . Tories. Sir Howard, chairman of the Airports . Commission, accepted that the Coalition has ruled this out for this . Parliament and that no second runway can be built at Gatwick until after . 2019. But, he declared: ‘Options after that are open. A third runway at Heathrow is on the table.’ Sir Howard will also look at other . radical suggestions. These include creating a four-runway Heathrow to . the west of the existing site and proposals for the estuary airport in . Kent or expansion elsewhere in the country. His six-strong commission will produce . an interim report next year on future aviation policy. This will set . out ‘options’ and some short-term action, including making better use of . existing runways around the capital and regions. But the final report, with more . significant and controversial plans for the longer term, will not appear . until summer 2015, after the last possible date for the next election. Any proposal to expand Heathrow would prove controversial for people living in homes in west London . Sir Howard said he would ‘make best use of time in the long grass’ to give the next government ‘a  flying start’. Mr Johnson, however, wants Sir Howard . to ‘accelerate his timescale’. He derided the Coalition for ‘a policy of . utter inertia’ and described delays to deciding aviation plans as a . ‘fudgerama’. ‘It’s going to be toxic and disastrous . to go into the election of 2015 with Heathrow runway three still on the . agenda, millions of Londoners still in a state of great anxiety and . uncertainty about whether or not they are going to suffer from severe . noise pollution,’ he said. But Sir Howard stressed: ‘The . Coalition is prepared for us to look broadly at all the options on the . table as well as some that are not so a government can come to it after . the election with an open mind.’The aim would be to build ‘political consensus’ which is currently lacking, he added. Other options he will examine include expanding Stansted,  Birmingham or Cardiff airports. Critics have questioned the . impartiality of some members of his commission. They include Sir John . Armitt, former Network Rail and Olympic Delivery chief, who is currently . undertaking policy work for Labour leader Ed Miliband. Sir Howard also pledged to look at potential compensation for homeowners living around Heathrow if he backs a third runway. ‘We need to look at that,’ he said. ‘We could try it out on Nick Clegg who lives in Putney.’ So too does former Transport Secretary . Justine Greening, who also opposes the third runway because of the . noise blight for her constituents. The Prime Minister’s office denied the . issue had been kicked into the long grass. David Cameron’s spokesman . said: ‘People on different sides of the debate have  particular . entrenched views. ‘Often those different options and . different ideas about how we should approach the issue of  airport . capacity are put forward without the evidence.’
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