Originally Posted by
Dave Gittins
As a life long cynic I have to ask how well that plan would have worked. It'd soon develop into 462 householders vs. aviation.
"These noisy aeroplanes stop me sitting in my garden on a sunny Sunday and don't let me lie in until 10.00 on a Saturday so they have to be stopped".
Exactly. I think you’ll find that the opponents to the housing were anti development, not anti flying. They could see that this was a cynical ploy to use the deliberate policy of winding down of operations as an excuse to slap in a planning application. There was supposed to have been a gentleman’s agreement between the old Salisbury District Council in the early 2000s that some building would be approved ( that’s how long they’ve been trying to develop it) This was never confirmed in writing, so not worth the paper it wasn’t written on.