This Proposal would appear to have serious implications for Blackpool based helicopters as the standard departure route to the south is about 4 miles over the Ribble estuary. At the point of the intersection with Warton's ATZ the crossing is still about a mile. If the cloudbase is too low to go over Warton the way round is all the way round Preston- about 20 miles. Then there are the Mersey and Dee estuarys. To go round these makes trips to Wales untenable. To the North the same problem occurs with the Solway Firth. I haven't been to Blackpool for a while but I should hope operators based there are vigourously lobbying the CAA. I should imagine other coastal areas suffer the same geographic problem. Let the CAA know. Then there are approaches to my favourite lakes hotels. I don't like being forced in downwind over populated, steep, wooded terrain. I would rather be over the lake for a few seconds.
P.S. My letter is in the post!