To be fair the residents of Mobberley and Knutsford have the single nuisance of aircraft......
If you live near the Tatton,
you have the planes
the train,
the new A6 relief road which will be a dual carrieway......
the metrolink
and now a 24 hour car park
...I think I would move !
.....and HS2 if Boy George gets his way, and it's his constituency!
The reason that I supported the R2 development is because the economic case for it was compelling. Whilst the project to this day remains widely misunderstood by the public (and some on here) because it is not fully utilised 24/7, the fact is that R2 has brought huge economic benefits to the region.
Indeed it has and rwys 3 and 4 at LHR will do the same for the UK.
Broadly speaking, the communities at the Heald Green / Wythenshawe end of the runways have been supportive of the airport on their doorstep.
This generally the case, it's the same at LHR. The vocal anti-airport expansion minority tend to live miles away.