London’s mayor Boris Johnson used his visit to Hong Kong to bolster his claims that a new hub airport built on reclaimed land in the Thames estuary could solve the UK capital’s capacity problems.
Flying over Hong Kong’s Chep Lap Kok airport, built on land reclaimed from the sea on the northern end of Lantau Island 22 miles west of the city centre, the mayor reiterated that there were “no circumstances” in which expanding the UK capital’s main airport at Heathrow would be acceptable
Lord Foster, whose practice helped design Chep Lap Kok, has also produced designs for an inner-estuary airport. The mayor has separately proposed an outer-estuary airport, dubbed “Boris Island”.
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