It was always planned to defer the decision to the Chief Planning Officer. Today's meeting by the plans panel was supposed the approval of the Planning Officer's recommendation to defer to the CPO based on the current proposal. I guess it did not go as well as planned:
Setback for LBA expansion bid as opponents make their voices heard (From Wharfedale Observer)
Seems ironic that the council are concerned with transport links, when it is themselves who have starved the airport of such links for the last half century.