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David Cameron has restated the coalition government鈥檚 willingness to explore controversial plans to build a new airport for London in the Thames estuary and called for a faster planning system.

In a wide-ranging speech on infrastructure delivered at the Institute of Civil Engineering today, the prime minister said he was 鈥渘ot blind鈥� to the need to increase airport capacity in the south-east.

Cameron insisted the nation needed to retain its status as a 鈥渒ey global hub for air travel 鈥� not just a feeder route to bigger airports elsewhere in Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Dubai鈥�, and warned the solution 鈥渨ill be controversial鈥�.

He said that while Gatwick was emerging as a business airport for London as its new owners competed with Heathrow, further work was needed.

鈥淲e will need to take decisions for the long-term - and we will be bringing forward options in our aviation strategy which will include an examination of the pros and cons of a new airport in the Thames estuary,鈥� he said.

Earlier, the prime minister bemoaned the nation鈥檚 planning system for infrastructure as 鈥渕uch too expensive and unbelievably slow鈥�, describing with exasperation the 鈥渁lmost 20 years鈥� it had taken to get Terminal 5 at Heathrow.

He noted that Beijing Capital Airport had overtaken Heathrow as the world鈥檚 second-busiest in 2010, and compared the speed of China鈥檚 infrastructure delivery with the Victorian pioneers of rail construction in this country.

鈥淭he kind of things we did almost 200 years ago, China does today,鈥� he said.