Originally Posted by
LTNman
Even ardent airport supports would secretly admit that there is something corrupt and decidedly dodgy when the airport owner gets to approve the airport operators planning application. This is reinforced by comments from the chairwoman of LRT that the community including the planning committee will financially benefit if the application was approved. Bim just shares the views of those that the council ignores.
Meanwhile the airport car parks are all but empty again. Time for another council bailout to not only its own airport company but to the shareholders of the airport operator?
I am not blindly supporting the airport here, but please provide evidence that what the airport has done is 'illegal'? If there was illegality, surely one of the pressure groups would've challenged this in court? You call the decision "corrupt and decidedly dodgy"... again, please could you back this up and prove that the process was improperly followed?
Bim knows what he's doing here. The Tories like to blame Labour for 'politicking' for his local constituents but he knows full well there is no mechanism here for calling the application here...
"The government has the power to "call in" planning applications that local authorities approve, and make the ultimate decision. This usually happens in cases where the decision may have wider effects beyond the immediate locality or potentially conflict with national policy."
This scheme doesn't meet that criteria. There is no significant infrastructure change or discernible increase in traffic. Many aircraft are being up-gauged and would result only in an additional 15 flights on average per day (around 1 flight per hour, although there is very little capacity to add more at peak times anyway).