On the other hand, take a hard nosed business look at the proposals within the document.
1. £25m will not pay for the redevelopment of the airport as described, a new runway, lighting, taxiways, ATC refurbishment and upgrade of facilities therein and a ILS. Think of £40m to £50m and then you are being more realistic.
2. The majority of air freight being flown to and from the North West is in fact flown from Newcastle, Glasgow and Prestwick, there is no commercially viable demand to fly such from Carlisle and there never will be.
3. The catchement area surrounding the airport is insufficiant to support passenger air services to any destination, once again Newcastle and Glasgow already provide such needs and will always be able to undercut anyone operating from Carlisle.
So take another good look at the brochure and tie it up with what Stobart's media people said when they first bought the place - very much the same.
Note the fact that Stobart wants to move their head office operation and a significant part of their main depot to the airport site.
They want the local council to improve the road link to the airport and once they do, Stobart have a self made head office and a major distribution centre for a knock down price.
In the brochure, Stobart openly admit that they will never make a profit from the airport operations and I would wager that they have no intention of developing the airport but intend to turn it into a major industrial park and retail centre.
As they own the site already and such a proposal would do far more for the local economy than a new airport ever would, I don't think they'll have any problem getting permission to go ahead with it.