This would be the Council which deliberately contributed to the demise of the airport by being deliberately obstructive in all planning applications eh?
Er no.... the airport is owned by Coventry city council however for planning purposes it is in Warwickshire. I'd have thought a good idea would be to get the county boundary moved to let the airport sit within the area of the council which owns it!
As for business park land, there is an entire defunct Peugeot car plant next door so plenty of room for that AND an airport.
The problem really was that Warwickshire saw no advantage to having the airport, they were completely blind the the jobs that the airport created and sustained. THe fact that most of the better paid airport employees lived south of the airport in Warwickshire bought large houses and paid lots of council tax seemed to escape them. Attracting an operator like T fly to a permanent base would have massively increased the number of those jobs.
Anyhow sufficient thread drift back to what is happening with the flying clubs?