Belfast City Airport accused of breaching planning limits
08.03.09
Residents groups in east Belfast have said that Belfast City Airport sold 80,000 more seats than allowed under planning agreements last year, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Belfast City Airport Watch said that the airport broke the ‘seats for sale’ clause in its Planning Agreement with the Department of the Environment (DoE), but had not faced any enforcement measures. The group called on Environment Minister Sammy Wilson to enforce the agreement properly.
Belfast City Airport Watch told the newspaper that airport chief executive Brian Ambrose had told a meeting last week of the airport’s consultative forum that 80,000 more seats were sold in 2008 than permitted under the Planning Agreement. The group claimed the DoE had been informed but did not take enforcement measures.
However, a spokesman for the airport denied the claim. It told the newspaper that the DoE was aware of a ‘process of adjustment’ by the airport to reschedule and limit some services so that it could abide by the new agreement.
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