Tree Planting at Proposed Heathrow Runway

Alison Steadman,actress and Richard Briers from the Good Life eat Cox Orange Pippin apples. Actors, politicians, councillors and local residents plant an apple orchard on the site of Heathrow's proposed third runway to show their opposition to expansion at the airport

Unique identifier: GP01X1P

Type: Image

Shoot date: 13/11/2009

Locations: Europe, Sipson, United Kingdom

Credit line: © Vicki Couchman / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Tree Planting at Proposed Heathrow Runway

Actors, political party leaders, local residents and the Poet Laureate plant an apple orchard on the site of Heathrow's proposed third runway to show their opposition to expansion at the airport. The apple orchard, which is called 'Appleplot', is planted on a piece of land purchased by Greenpeace along with over 60,000 concerned citizens from around the world. The orchard makes a link between the past and the present of Heathrow. In the mid 1800's, Richard Cox bred the Cox's orange pippin just a mile from the airport, in one of the villages under threat from runway plans.

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