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My point is that an airport located in, say, the Huntingdon area can serve London better than Heathrow due to far better & quicker links into central London & The City (just 40 mins by train into Kings-Cross at the moment, & that could be upgraded). Such a location will also be able to serve the industries & business of the Midlands AS WELL.
Do you really think you can get planning permission for the world's biggest airport around Huntingdon? Good luck to you if you eant to try.
It is political suicide; the land costs would be stratospheric; the high powered opposition would be insurmountable; there would be endangered species discovered everywhere.......
It ain't going to happen. It will be hard enough to push through in the unpopulated and impoverished Esturary - but Middle England??
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