Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Apologies for wandering off topic, just curious as to why you would have a seperate limit for freight flights?
I understand that this was as a sop to the local anti-airport campaigners at the time, who were widely circulating a conspiracy theory (what changes!) that the airport was going to be a massive Stobart Freight hub, because of the Eddie Stobart trucking link then. They even went as far as putting this arrant nonsense in a leaflet delivered door-to-door, in order to stir up more replies to the Council/JAAP.
The new rail station (they said) was just a cover for a Stobart siding to facilitate an unlimited rail/air freight interchange all through the night, so the Councillors had their ears bent and put this restriction in place in the S.106.
Unfortunately, in terms of the SEN Section106 agreement, 'ATMs' meant all movements, however small the movement. This should really be changed to Air Transport Movements in the sense most in aviation understand it (but Councillors never understood aviation!).