Council wants more say on Edinburgh Airport development
18.11.10
Edinburgh City Council is calling on the Scottish Government to allow them to have tighter controls on developments that take place at Edinburgh Airport, the Evening News reports. Airport operator BAA is the only organisation in Edinburgh that has ‘permitted development’ (PD) rights, meaning that it does not need planning consent before carrying out development on its grounds.
That means that the council is unable to force the company to spend money on infrastructure improvements or public transport in the way that it can with other developers through ‘section 75’ legal agreements (put in place when a company applies for planning permission). Concern has been growing about the council's inability to control what happens at the airport in light of BAA's controversial £1 ‘kiss and fly’ charge. The newspaper reports that Dave Anderson, the council's director of city development, is now urging the Scottish Government to abolish the airport's exemption from the normal planning process.
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