Leeds Bradford Airport expansion decision deferred
18.04.09
Leeds Bradford Airport expansion plans were deferred by Leeds councillors yesterday. The councillors took on board local campaigners' arguments that increased passenger numbers would lead to more traffic, more noise, and more carbon emissions - all adding up to make an expanded airport an environmental disaster zone. They have called for the plans to be rethought.
The airport’s £28 million plan for the development of its passenger terminal was set to transform the site and help prepare it for the next decade of air travel. Part of a £70m package of improvements over the next five years, planners were asked to approve a two-storey extension to main airport terminal building to provide new entrance, improved internal facilities and associated landscaping works to the terminal building forecourt at the airport.
However, Councillors last night delayed a decision on the scheme amid concerns about the impact it could have on roads in the area, after getting more than 900 letters of objection. Panel members said they could not give the scheme their backing at this stage. While supporting the development of improved airport facilities, they said much more work needed to be done on how people could be persuaded to get to the airport by public transport.
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