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Old 21st Jan 2009, 18:29
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Airport expansion

santito,

It may well be that North Somerset Council does not have the final say. There is a possibility that a public enquiry might ensue or, if the council does make the decision and rejects the plans, there must be every likelihood the airport would seriously consider appealing such a decision.

A further complicator might be if the Conservatives win the next general election and re-evaluate the expansion plans for a number of UK airports because they spring from the White Paper on civil aviation and that was Labour's baby.

The full-length parallel taxiway is a problem for aircraft with wingspan wider than a 767 because of the adjacent airport boundary fence along Winters Lane and the idea in the original master plan was to overcome this by the use of turning circles in the short term, although they did not discount moving Winters Lane further north in the future. I suspect that would cause a bit of fun because Winters Lane is a public highway and any displacement would shift the road onto part of the golf course.

EGCA,

The A38 was diverted via the arc you mention several years ago.
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