"I wish them well, but my suspicion is that after a year or two the new owners will declare the place unviable for aviation use and try and develop it in different ways.."
Most of the cynics on here believe they made that decision years ago and keep the place in their land bank - every so often they talk about reopening but they know that in the long term the Council will fold and it'll be houses as far as the eye can see....... it's worth hundreds of millions IN CASh once it's developed