Originally Posted by
Headset19
Scottish was never planned to move to Swanwick. NATS which has rationalised its centres also has a two centre policy, resilience demands it.
It
was intended to move the Scottish Centre from Prestwick to Swanwick, I was in some of the original discussions at LATCC and the then CAA House. Nobody believed that what was then called NERC (New En-Route Centre) would actually be built as we were still expanding the LATCC building with the new Military control room. Whilst I agree that redundancy could have been an issue, the idea was that there would be no single point of failure and NERC would be two buildings plugged together - Southern control room could back up the Scottish control room and vice versa. The real problem was political.