Bristol Airport has submitted expansion plans to accommodate an additional three million passengers a year. The application, submitted to North Somerset Council, includes expanding the runway onto green space at Felton Common to enable long haul flights. The airport has previously been granted permission to expand from 10 million to 12 million passengers per year, but this latest application would increase capacity to 15 million. The expansion, costing £500m, would create 1,000 on-site jobs and create another 36,000 jobs in the wider region. However, Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN) has criticised the expansion plans as "wrong at every level" and has called for them to be paused until better public transport and greener aviation fuel is available.