Considering that the original planners decided it was the right place for aviation as far back as WWI (seriously, it was a military airfield way back then), with Fairey owning it and using it as an assembly/testing place in the 30's, the RAF laying down runways in '44 so they could use it as a transfer station, which they didn't so, it was transferred to civil aviation with the first commercial flight in '46, I would say that using someplace that has been used as an airfield for the best part of a century is actually the right place to have it.......