A balanced and well thought out post. BEagle.
1. Unless you have been off the planet you will of course know that the lease to operate EGBE is no longer owned by TOM.
2. ACP's no longer rely solely on ATM stats to be sucessfull in fact environmental issues for those on the ground seem to be No 1 priority.
3 65000 + pa movements mean it is a real airport or is it that the G/A element of that total is not 'real' aviation.