Bliar and his mates up to their old tricks
The reason greenfield sites were included in the White Paper was so that the Government would look good when they rejected them.
The plans for Cliffe, Rugby, Severnside et al were poorly researched and never entered the starting grid. A lesson in New Labour politics.
The eventual outcome was utterly predictable, and was probably decided before edition one of the White Paper was even written.
Interestingly, the 'options' for Luton were put together by the consulting engineers company that works for BAA so both options (re-aligned runway and new runway 200 metres south of 08/26) were commercially impractical from the outset. TBI had no input to the original document as I understand it, but BAA's fingerprints are all over it.
Don't vote for Bliar