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Bristol Airport has submitted a planning application to North Somerset Council seeking permission to increase capacity to handle up to 12 million passengers a year by the mid-2020s.
Currently the airport is restricted to 10 mppa by its planning consents but expects to exceed 9 mppa in 2019. It also wants rationalisation, though not a relaxation, of its night flight quotas.
Some of the matters in today's application include a further enlargement of the terminal, three multi-storey car parks, a pedestrianised forecourt with a canopy, new road layouts within the site, an extension to the Silver Zone car park on the south side and a new taxiway.
The past two decades since privatisation have seen numerous infrastructure work costing £160 million since 2010 and a similar amount before that. One local media report today reckons that if approved today's application would involve £275 million worth of work.
Currently several projects are ongoing: a new fire station; a new admin building (both on the south side); more aircraft stands to be open by next summer, this time on the former staff car park in front of the old terminal building which itself is due to be demolished in the near future to provide further stands; building new levels onto the first multi-storey car park that was opened earlier this year.
The airport is also due to publish a draft of its new master plan in the near future following two public consultation phases earlier this year. The draft will go out for further public consultation. It will look at how the airport might develop over the next quarter of a century when passenger throughput might reach 20 mppa by the 2040s. That would require an enlargement of the site partly into the Green Belt onto adjoining land some of which is already owned by the airport. The airport and local authorities are also investigating ways in which surface access can be improved, both for public and private transport.