Villagers threatened with losing their homes in the Heathrow expansion unveiled a large plastic runway outside properties owned by two airport bosses on Bank Holiday Monday (August 31).

Campaigners against its expansion from Harmondsworth, Sipson and Harlington organised a “Heathrow Homeless Coach Tour”, which included visiting the homes of two Heathrow employees.

Residents brought a suitcase to highlight the plight of thousands of people who would be forced to look for alternative places to live.

The first stop was Heathrow CEO John Holland Kaye’s house in Oxford and residents were dismayed to find his large four-bedroom house was currently being renovated.

Christine Taylor, a Stop Heathrow Expansion campaigner whose home in Harlington will be lost under a third runway, said: “It was particularly galling to see, when people are struggling along in a little house, where we'd like to extend, but the house may have no future.

“He's got quite a lot of room, he could house a few of us in there! I've got my suitcase ready.

“So if he wants to invite us back to live there in his nice, quiet, leafy street that he lives in, far away from aircraft noise, I'd be the first one on a coach to go.”

The second stop was David Cameron’s constituency office in Witney, Oxfordshire.

A runway of his own...

Harmondsworth resident Armelle Thomas, 69, was photographed clutching an old photograph of her husband Tommy as a young member of the RAF during the Second World War.

Tommy had died days before on Friday 25 August morning, aged 93, but Armelle was determined to join the coach party to voice her disgust that her husband’s last months had been made a misery by the news that Sir Howard Davies had recommended Heathrow and the destruction of their longtime home.

Spotting a road sign that announced that Witney is twinned with Le Touquet in France added to Armelle’s sense that Tommy was with the group in spirit - Le Touquet was his birthplace.

The residents' third stop caused a stir as they arrived at the home of Matt Gorman, Heathrow’s Director of Sustainability and Environment, in Henley-on-Thames.

Ms Taylor, said: “He had 'Proud to Back Heathrow' stickers and posters and clearly wants an expansion so I thought a little plastic runway he'd quite enjoy! So we rolled it into his garden and caused minimal disruption. We just had a few calls of 'No third runway' before we rolled up the runway and left.”

Quite a stir... protest at Matt Gorman's house

However, Mr Gorman was not pleased as neighbours gathered to watch the scene.

A Heathrow spokesperson, said: “We can confirm that a group of people staged a protest at the home of a Heathrow colleague over the Bank Holiday weekend. The police were called in line with normal procedures and when they arrived the protesters dispersed.”

“Heathrow has a new plan, one that has local residents’ views and the environment at its core. It will create up to 180,000 jobs and £211bn of economic growth across the country.

"That’s why it has so much support this time from businesses, business groups, politicians, airports, airlines and a majority of local residents.”

Ms Taylor hoped the residents delivered a human face to the destruction of homes that will take place, if the third runway goes ahead, and to show there are people out there that will have nowhere to go.

She said: “If we came with diggers, and tarmacked his house and built a runway on his back fence, which is what he wants to do to houses in Harmondsworth and Sipson, I could understand if he was upset.

“It put our arguments into a human dimension – these are real people. I think if he hasn't learned a lesson, he'd have to be totally insensitive and ignorant.

Ms Taylor, who's 84-year-old mother was also on the coach, added: “This is something that is so important and so vital to them that they came all the way on a bank holiday to his house, to put a human face to the suffering they are going through.

“I hope they thought about the people with the suitcases and not just their own inconvenience.”