Well perhaps, promising from the local council, Panshanger Airfield has been removed from the local plan in a council U turn.
http://http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news...turn_1_4626074
The talk is of moving the runway 50m North and allowing the landowner to build a more limited amount of houses. Looks like they are going to approve Option 5.1 in the consultants report below, which shows the re-alligned runway and switching the operations side from the South to the North
http://panshangerpeople.org.uk/wp-co...Mariposa-1.pdf