Coventry airport bosses may drop smaller terminal application
28.09.05
Coventry Airport bosses may drop an application for a small 3000 square metre passenger terminal in favour of their second application for a 10,000 square metre building, in what some have described as a 'winner-takes-all gamble'.
In the latest twist in the Coventry airport saga, airport operator TUI said that it could go into January's inquiry with just an application for a 10,000 square metre building, capable of processing up to two million passengers a year. Until now, the inquiry was expected to consider two separate plans - one for a small terminal and one for a larger terminal.
Should airport bosses decide to proceed with just the larger application, it would remove any opportunity for a compromise when government planning inspectors begin the public inquiry. Instead, they would be forced to decide whether to give the green light to a large airport building or to support Warwick District Council's decision to turn down the application.
Bosses announced they were considering dropping one application at a pre-inquiry meeting on Monday. (See this earlier coventry airport news story).
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