Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
New £10m control tower to built at Birmingham Airport
Date added: 1 April, 2011
A new state of the art control tower is to be built at a cost of £10 million. Work on the new landmark building will start in May but it will be 2 years before
it is operational because of the complexity of the new equipment being installed
in it. The new 115ft tower will dominate the western side of the airport and be easily
visible from the A45. Once commissioned it will take over from the original control tower which has
been in use since 1939.
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Lydd Airport Inquiry: Nuclear waste inadequate security shock at Dungeness
Date added: 31 March, 2011
Local residents living near the Dungeness Nuclear power plant were shocked to
learn that there has been no security assessment of sabotage or terrorist threat,
undertaken on the rail transport of the intensely radioactive spent nuclear fuel
from the remote Denge railhead. They are extremely concerned that the Nuclear
Inspectorate has not appropriately assessed the risk of aircraft crash damage
arising from the proposed development at Lydd Airport.
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BAA told by Competition Commission to sell 2 airports – welcomed by SSE
Date added: 30 March, 2011
BAA has been told by the CC that it should sell Stansted and either Glasgow or
Edinburgh airports. BAA has mounted a string of legal challenges to try to keep
them ever since the commission initially ruled in 2009 that it must sell 3 of
its 7 UK airports. The commission said its decision was "fully justified" and
it would publish its final verdict in May or June. Stop Stansted Expansion says
"Don't prolong the agony" and sell Stansted soon, to remove the blight.
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Aer Arann starts Southend flights to Waterford and Galway
Date added: 29 March, 2011
Aer Arann now offers direct daily flights from Southend to Waterford and four-times
weekly to Galway. On the three days a week without a direct service, passengers for Galway will
be able to fly via Waterford. Southend airport is currently undergoing development which will see an extended
runway, a new rail link with central London and a new terminal open by 2012. Southend
hopes for some more routes eventually.
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Redhill Aerodrome: Work begins on plans for hard landing strip
Date added: 27 March, 2011
The controversial new hard runway at Redhill Aerodrome will move a step closer
when planning permission is submitted this summer. Aerodrome chief executive Jon Horne told the Aerodrome Consultative Committee
in a letter that work had started on creating a proposal. The announcement follows the results of an aerodrome-led consultation on the
plans, which are centred on a new 1,200-metre hard runway to replace the three
grass runways.
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Lydd airport public inquiry plods along
Date added: 27 March, 2011
The public inquiry into plans by Lydd airport to expand started on 22nd February.
It is likely to continue for 13 weeks. Lydd Airport Action Group says the plans
should be rejected as the site is inappropriate for a regional airport. Among
other organisations presenting evidence at the Inquiry are CPRE Protect Kent,
and the RSPB. Dungeness is a highly valuable wildlife area for birds in particular,
which would be badly affected by a larger airport.
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Fight the Flights (London City Airport) launches Legal Challenge fund appeal – to appeal High Court decision
Date added: 26 March, 2011
FtF has launched an appeal for funds in order to mount a legal challenge at the
Appeal Court, against the decision by High Court judges in Nov 2010 not to allow FtF's
legal challenge of the Newham Council decision on London City Airport expansion.
FtF need to raise funds to do this. They believe the case is an important one,
and worth fighting, because the expansion planned threatens the local environment, social
justice, and health and safety.
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Manchester Airport named as new enterprise zone
Date added: 25 March, 2011
Manchester Airport has been named as one of the government's 21 new "enterprise
zones" announced in the Budget. It will have business rate discounts, simplified
planning and access to superfast broadband. Called Airport City, the development
will be run by the newly established Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership,
and claims it will create "between 7,000 and 13,000 jobs" though in effect some
of these will be taken from elselwhere.
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BAA plans £50m Heathrow investment to avoid snow chaos
Date added: 25 March, 2011
BAA has promised a £50m investment at Heathrow to avoid a repeat of December's snow chaos. It follows a report, commissioned by the company, which accused BAA of a breakdown in communication and lack of "preparedness" for the bad weather.
Some 4,000 flights were cancelled during five days of heavy snowfall. The potential impact of bad weather was "not fully anticipated". 9,500 passengers had to spend the night in Heathrow terminals on 18 December. (BBC)
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London’s Royal Docks to be enterprise zone – adjacent to London City Airport
Date added: 24 March, 2011
Thousands of jobs could be created after it was confirmed London’s historic Royal
Docks has been given enterprise zone status. New businesses locating within 125 hectares of development land during the term
of the current Parliament will benefit from reduced business rates for 5 years.
Boris said “Now with the financial and regulatory breaks granted as an Enterprise Zone there
will be even greater incentives for new businesses to set up shop .... etc"
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