Airplot!

The battle to stop Heathrow's third runway is hotting up. Greenpeace today launched an architecture competition to design an "impenetrable fortress" on a piece of land fated for Heathrow's third runway. 

The site in question (above) is a 0.4ha piece of land in the tiny village of Sipson on which Greenpeace plans to build a zero-carbon structure on the site to defend it from the bulldozers. The "Airplot" campaign is welcoming designs from both architecture experts and from the general public. Amongst the 'experts' who will ultimately judge the winner of the competition is impressionist Alastair McGowan.

Even without the fortress the campaigners have tried to make it as difficult as possible for bailiffs to seize the piece of land. Over 66,000 people now own part of it, which means they will each have to be served with eviction notices once the bulldozers are due to come in. If all that effort isn't enough to stop the new runway then there is always the fact that one of the trees on the land has already been "sponsored" by David Cameron.