I am of the opinion that the ‘plans’ as shown on the BBC local news this week are not really expansion rather the completion of T2 to the original plans. This will, of course, result in the destruction of area seven (for the privileged) and a proportion of Staff West.
I seem to recall that in an earlier issue of the airport magazine there was a proposal for two staff car parks, one of which would destroy farmland somewhere near where the new hotel is being built (adjacent to the freight sheds) and the other would destroy farmland near to Styal. Allocation was proposed to be by postcode (South and East – Styal, North and West – freight sheds) and then the inevitable shuttle bus, allow 45mins.
What has happened to that ?