SealinkBFa local Torie councillor and NIMBYs scuppered every plan to develop the place in the 80s and 90s, cargo flights, training flights early holiday flights and a multi million pound development for cargo and aircraft maintenance, sparrows couldn't even fart before the phone was ringing. Thus the Labour councils slowly sold it to Peel, who also sold it to a Canadian company and took it back before on paper accepting a Tory mayors plan, who has said if it doesn't work he can build on the site.