SUPPORT for a second airport at Badgerys Creek has received another significant boost, with a key group of councils backing calls for the first steps to be taken in its development.
The Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC), representing 10 local government areas and incorporating more than 1.5 million residents, yesterday threw its support behind calls by a coalition of unions and business groups for a new environmental impact statement to be prepared on the Badgerys Creek site.
"Attitudes in the region are changing from what they were almost two decades ago when the issue was last raised," WSROC president Tony Hadchiti said.
"It's time the government took these changes into account.
"The Greater Western Sydney Region is already home to 1.9 million people . . . these people are going to need jobs and access to transport."
Mr Hadchiti said support for Badgerys Creek as the location for a second airport was at a high.
The Daily Telegraph yesterday revealed about 60 NSW Labor-affiliated unions, representing 600,000 workers, had allied with business groups to back an airport at Badgerys Creek.
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