“There’s the church I got married in, the cottage hospital where I had my children, the primary school and the playgroup I helped set up. All of it will be under concrete.”
Having always lived in Hillingdon borough, and with her 82-year-old mother living across the road, the prospect of moving is unbearable.
“It’s a very demoralising situation to think a community is going to be wiped off the map.”
Mrs McCutcheon, 60, and her husband do not want to move but she wonders who would want to buy their house, despite BAA offering transferable bonds guaranteeing its value at 2002 prices.
However vociferous their campaign, not everyone shares their views.
Labour peer Lord Soley, of Future Heathrow, which campaigns for the airport’s development, fears if the airport does not expand it will lose out to its European ethnic dating site, having already been overtaken by Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris.
“The threat to Heathrow is real, not imagined,” he says.
If it is not a hub airport this would have serious long-term consequences for Britain and ethnic dating the Heathrow region, with 70,000 people working at the airport and an estimated 100,000 other jobs indirectly dependent on the airport.
The former west London MP said: “I have always lived under the flight path. If you asked me if I wanted it for my personal life I would say no, close it down tomorrow morning.
He believes compensation should be fair but believes the case for a third runway is strong, warning of “dire consequences” if it does not go ahead.
He cited the example of the East End docks, thriving in the 1960s, yet closed down by the 1980s.
“Heathrow is already losing out in this race to be the premier airport,” he says.
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Hillingdon council has long opposed the third runway on environmental grounds.
Deputy leader David Simmonds says: “If you look at European rules of what air quality is required in residential areas a large part of the south of the borough would be uninhabitable.”
He is not convinced projected figures for increased air travel will materialise.
Last year the airport handled nearly 68 million passengers and with three runways it could handle 116 million passengers by 2030, according to Department of Transport figures.
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“It is not as if Heathrow is going to disappear,” he says.
John Stewart, of the Heathrow residents group Hacan Clear Skies, says: “One old lady said to me she would be close enough to give the pilots breakfast when they land.
“There should be a clear decision that enough is enough at Heathrow.”
The prospect of another runway was raised again in Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget Report last year which stressed Heathrow’s “unique role in supporting economic growth across the country”.
This summer, BAA is due to publish another version of its master plan about possible future development.
And by the end of the year the government is to give a progress report on the White Paper, which supported a third runway if strict environmental conditions could be met.
“There will only be a third runway if environmental problems are solved, chiefly air quality,” says David Stewart, Department of Transport spokesman.
BAA says it will await the outcome of the government adult compare dating online site on the white paper.
“Economically a third runway is desirable but we have to recognise the huge environmental impact,” says a BAA spokeswoman.
Mr Stewart, of Hacan, said: “Many have given their lives to the airport, believe in the airport but now in their retirement find the airport want to take their communities, their homes and their links with their families and friends.”
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