Just looked at the map of the proposed development linked in the second Northern Echo story - changed my mind, it is a wind up...
The new link road from the roundabout to the terminal now goes through the housing estate, the house estate seems to go up to the apron fences, and the only access to the southside development is along the old access road, alongside the new housing development, through the current hangar area and then looping round the eastern end of the runway...