It may possibly create 100 jobs, but it'll bugger more than that number employed at Sherburn Aero Club, just down the road.....
Was talking this very afternoon to an employee of Sherburn who said that many pokers were in the fire and no one was worried about loosing their job.
Incidentally re GA airfields closing at an alarming rate Hucknall is the next one to go in March. Free landings for anyone who wants to fly in for the last time. I hear Wellesbourne Mountford, North Coates and Leicester are under threat from the developers as well.
Off the top of my head Manston, Plymouth, Blackpool and Filton have gone recently and these aren't GA grass strips.