...but while I'm here. The article in the Northern Echo:
The rescue plan, unveiled last week, proposes to build between 250 and 400 new homes on land to the west and north of the terminal, including land previously earmarked as a business park.
Now call me a cynic, but wouldn't that kill the airport? Imagine how many noise complaints there will be. When the lovely people who will eventually buy these houses move in to discover, shock of all shocks, that there's an airport in their back garden. Should there ever be an increase in movements, the new residents will be out there in their onesies, complete with grubby baby eating a Greggs pasty, complaining about the 100% increase in flights and how it will poison their goldfish etc...
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