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Facing defeat at the hands of the Government and the British Airports Authority (BAA), famous campaign group, Greenpeace, is to construct an impregnable 'fortress' in the village of Sipson, near Heathrow Airport.
According to critics, the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport would result in the destruction of between 700 and 4000 residential buildings, a community graveyard, and every brick in Sipson. The BAA has offered to buy all these properties but not everybody is keen on moving.
Greenpeace owns a single acre of land in the Sipson area, which it plans to use as the focus of its resistance against the BAA’s bulldozers. Over the next few months, some of the UK’s most pre-eminent architects will be commissioned to design a medieval fortress that will fit inside the Sipson acre.
The winning design will provide campaigners with a tangible blockade against the BAA’s bulldozers and the legions of police officers that are expected to descend on the area should the proposal ever get the green light. Greenpeace hopes to fill the castle with ordinary Britons, rather than vehement activists.
“Whoever wins the next election, they will come under enormous pressure from the aviation industry to push ahead with a third runway”, Greenpeace director, John Sauven, explained. “But if the bulldozers roll they will face a fortress occupied by people who oppose the expansion.”
The Sipson acre is currently owned by more than 60,000 different people across the globe – all of whom would have to be consulted if the BAA wanted to buy the plot of land. The term “legal headache” has never been more apposite.
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