Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Carlisle: Agency backs airport revamp plan
Cumbria's regeneration agency has urged council bosses to approve plans to redevelop Carlisle Airport. Cumbria Vision said the plans, submitted by Stobart Air, were vital to the county's economic revival. They have urged Carlisle City Council to approvae the plans, to be considered in December. (BBC)
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Heathrow – Ministers push ahead with third runway plan
Ministers will launch a public consultation on building a new runway and terminal at London's Heathrow airport, giving the clearest signal yet that its controversial expansion will go ahead. But the consultation, which may be announced as early as this week, could be overshadowed by fresh evidence that BAA has been closely involved in shaping its remit. (Observer)
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Stansted – Airport extension ‘should now stop’
THE Government should abandon plans for further expansion at Stansted Airport. The ANASE (Attitudes to Noise from Aviation Sources in England) report concluded people were more annoyed by all levels of aircraft noise than they were in 1985 and that even relatively low levels of noise could cause some annoyance. The study vindicates virtually everything Stop Stansted Expansion has been saying for the past 5 years. (Cambridge Evening News)
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£700m plan for third runway at Heathrow
The airline industry will take its first decisive step towards getting a third runway at Heathrow with a proposal to raise £700m over the next 5 years to pay for enabling work on the project. In a clear signal the industry thinks the Government is about to give the scheme the green light, it will lobby the CAA to make provision in the current 5-year funding review for the extra money to be raised. (Telegraph)
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Tatenhill Airfield – Airfield planning inquiry opens
A long-standing struggle over controversial plans to expand an airfield near Burton has moved closer to completion with the opening of a planning inquiry. Representatives from East Staffordshire Borough Council and the Dutchy of Lancaster, which owns Tatenhill Airfield, met at Burton's Town Hall to present their arguments at a public planning inquiry. (Burton Mail)
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More Stanstead ‘flights’ taking off from Liverpool St station
MORE 'airport express' trains are being laid on from London to Stansted in the New Year. An extra 13 trains a week start on January 2nd to meet the increased demand of air passengers, the train operators announced today. It means passengers on late night and early morning flights now get more rail connections to and from central London, seven days a week. (East London Advertiser)
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London City Airport – Council bid to block ariport growth
BARKING and Dagenham residents will be plagued by the droning of planes if London City Airport is allowed to add tens of thousands of extra flights each year, council officers have warned. The officers want to block the airport's application to increase flight numbers from the current 80,000 a year to 120,000 by 2010, and passenger numbers from 2.4 million to almost 4million. (London 24)
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Activists plan to cause chaos when Terminal 5 at Heathrow is opened
Environmental activists are planning to disrupt hundreds of flights by blockading key areas in Heathrow’s giant new terminal when it opens in the spring. Supporters of Plane Stupid, an anti-aviation group that caused chaos by occupying a taxiway at East Midlands airport last year, have infiltrated passenger trials taking place over the next three months at Terminal 5. (Times)
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Gloucestershire airport – AIRPORT EXPANSION – PROTESTERS CAMP OUT
More than 100 people will be camped in front of Gloucestershire airport tonight in protest over its expansion plans. Campaigners from across the country will make their voices heard over proposals to accommodate larger aircraft at the Staverton airport. This summer, bosses at Gloucestershire Airport revealed plans for flights to European destinations. The airport has submitted planning applications to Tewkesbury Borough Council to remove buildings at the end of its runway on safety grounds. (This is Gloucestershire)
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Stansted campaign group says BAA expansion plan ‘in tatters’
The inquiry into the application by BAA, the UK airports group, to expand the use of the existing single runway at Stansted closed yesterday after more than 4 months of hearings. BAA had failed to provide "a shred of evidence" that expanding Stansted, the UK's third busiest airport, would deliver any net economic benefits, the leading campaign group against the growth of the airport - SSE - claimed. (Financial Times)