The masterplan seems a case of "we are going ahead with plans to build 400 houses & tough! if you don't approve"
Being brutally realistic, what would serve the region best, an under utilised and loss making airfield or 400 houses to help ease the chronic shortage of housing in the UK?
Leaving aside for the moment the imperative of how much the land owner (Peel) could make our of the sale of the land for it's shareholders!