Can you say just when the new hospital under the approach to 21 was approved, and when work started?
Let me think back......the cranes erecting the place were on site during the last air show, so that was last September.
There was a smaller hospital on the same site prior to that. The council also had another area to chose from nearer Bromly, the major conurbation around here.
Also recently approved (within the last couple of years) are a high value housing estate approx quarter of a mile off the centreline of runway 21 at 1 nm final (under the base leg). A housing estate across the road from the main terminal building and apron. A small housing estate under the final approach of runway 03 a 1 nm final. Just awaiting planning approval is an application for more dwellings only a matter of a few hundred metres off the end of runway 29.
Getting the pattern in this yet?