astir8:
Do you think Tesco would get away with taking over the local playground or a big chunk of green belt countryside by claiming that it would benefit their profits?
Perhaps not, but they haven't done too badly out of arguing that their latest store will benefit thousands of consumers, and that's surely the real parallel here.
I think the biggest weakness in the Norwich ACP is that (1) they aren't asking for connectivity to the airways and (2) from the incident list it's clear that the military are the biggest problem at the moment. It seems to me there's a big risk that keeping the military out of the areas east and west of EGSH could simply shift them to the areas which will remain Class G, thus perpetuating the problem of airliners flying lots of extra track miles because of vectoring to avoid conflicts.
NS