This news of a London LARS is indeed excellent. But does anyone know how many frequencies will be allocated, and the division of sectors?
The wonderful guys and gals at Farnborough LARS do an unbelievably good job given the so often gross congestion on 125.25, which is not just at weekends. But they are only covering less than 20% of the space under the TMA (plus Odiham MATZ crossings, etc).
Up to a few years ago, Dunsfold operated a LARS, and this gave enormous, valuable relief to the congestion, as they split the area between them.
I'm a very frequent user of Farnborough LARS, and on my visit there they told us how much they wanted us to log in with them, to know our intentions to aid threading their Bizjets through the busy Class G airspace. It seems to me that a minimum of 4 controllers, each on their own frequency, is needed to cover the whole area under the TMA.