Even if Coventry Airport succeeds with its appeal, the Council is likely to seek a judicial review of such a decision.
And even if that upholds the Court's decision, it's quite likely that the Warwick/Leamington/Kenliworth populus will lobby strongly for a Public Inquiry by which time, with a general election looming, local MPs and counsellors will all be falling over themselves to give support to their constituents' calls.
The attitude of the Airport's management is a sad combination of staggering naievety and arrogance - they would have been far better to have courted the Council and got it on board right at the outset instead of trying to play the legal technicality card.
'Environment' is now the # 1 issue affecting all UK airports, and it doesn't matter who you are, big multinational or small airport operator, you just can't run 'rough-shod' over it.
Bosses at BHX, MAN, LTN, EMA, SOU, STN, etc., can all testify to this painful fact - one wonders why the idiots at CVT didn't realise!
