Hopefully there's far to many nimbys around chobham \ ottershaw way.
I can personally attest to the truth of that speculation as I am from Ottershaw. What I cannot speculate on is the possible benefit of selling fairoaks for housing development.
The NIMBYs have/do/will moan about aircraft noise (oh, the number of noise complaints I took when I was there in my first job), but it has to be preferable to the congestion that would inevitably result on the A319 and A320. It's bad enough as it is.
I was somewhat uneasy when I heard about Erinaceous's involvement at Fairaoks (from here - there was virtually no coverage in the Surrey Herald about it), but my feeling is that the local residents would regard an active airfield as the lesser of two evils in this case.
As to the wranglings/involvement of Longmint, I really couldn't say.
Foxy