The airport’s owner, Peel Holdings, has now applied to Darlington Borough Council to change a 1.7 hectare section of the car park - more than 900 spaces - into a storage area for caravans, motorhomes and other vehicles for the next three years.
Andy Foulds, commercial director for Durham Tees Valley Airport, said the company had to maximize all business opportunities for the site in order to keep it sustainable...
...in a statement, Mr Foulds said: “Maximising business opportunities for the whole site is important to sustain the airport. In this instance we were approached by an organisation which offers storage facilities for vehicles, including mobile homes, seeking temporary use of a section of our car parking area which is some distance from the terminal and is actually cordoned off at present. If the application is approved it will enable us generate income from an asset which is currently under-used.”
Airport bids to turn car park into caravan storage site (From The Northern Echo)