Originally Posted by
N707ZS
As a point of interest all of these developments seem to just slip through planning and just get rubber stamped. I am not against the airport developing but I do believe the development should be aviation related industry or a large proportion. We need Beafer to dig up the evidence, the first Southside development caused such a stir with the locals and that was sold to them as aviation. Not even the local Councillor Doris Jones has reared her head this time.
Yes - what the Mayor has planned for the southside is pretty much what was in the Peel Masterplan, except Peel had housing planned near the terminal to fund it, whereas the plan now seems to be to have Willis and the fire school in a similar location.
From memory the the original planning permission (presumably now lapsed) was for aviation-related acticities, but various amendments chipped the percentage away. It ending up at 40% seems to ring a bell. Don't know what planning arrangement the units to be built this summer are happening under, or the roundabout on the A67 come to that.