This seems to be a mjaor grab of airspace for little purpose except commercial profit. NHS deliveries in this area are readily done by road. Whiule the Western Isles trial could be justified for accessabilty reasons,this has none of that.
Alos I note that the earlier claim that drones would be operating below normal air traffic altitudes are now disappearing. Additionally the claim that adding more conspicuity devices would make air avoidance by drones easier also seems to have been forgotten. Once again, people are lying to us.
As an occasional [ast user of that low level corridor (in a vintage machine), I shall object, naturally. Considerably increased risk to no purpose. Why not keep the drones very low over the water ? - or push them above the ~1,000ft typically used by the folk going through the low level corridor.
Fairly dreadful restrictions for those airfields to the West of Newcastle too.