One can look at this in two ways, a) that the development will create employment, which will lead to an increase in business activity, which will in turn provide more customers for DTV, or b) that this is a small step towards the greater industrialisation of the DTV site with an ultimately detrimental effect on aviation activities which may be used by Peel to aid their own agenda. Certainly the former makes more economic sense, though I'd start to become concerned if I'd seen projections that would have suggested that greater economic benefit would be derived from the provision of a cargo & maintenance development as opposed to that of an industrial estate. As for the consent of local authorities, then they would have difficulty in rejecting any industrial development that proposes to create jobs and provide council revenue which accommodates local residents concerns and did not impact on DTV's current aviation activities, which presumably this development does not.
