London City Airport outline plans for massive growth
03.01.07
London City Airport have published a revised master plan based on the feedback it received from a draft master plan last year. The plan, which charts how the terminal will develop and expand over the coming decades, includes a target of 8 million passengers a year.
The new document follows a public consultation on a draft master plan, which airport bosses say was 'positive, constructive and showed strong support for future development'. Under the plan, the airport aims to meet the growing demand for air travel in the South East and support the regeneration of East London while remaining good neighbours and not harming the environment.
The blueprint explains how London City Airport will develop in two distinct time frames - from now until 2015 and from 2015 to 2030. The first stage until 2015 allows for up to 3.5 million passengers a year. It includes plans for 5 new aircraft parking stands built over King George V Dock, a terminal extension in the area behind the Docklands Light Railway station, expanding the Jet Centre, a new aircraft hangar, new airport fire station and a DLR extension to Woolwich Arsenal / Stratford planned for 2009.
In the second phase up to 2030, the plans will allow for up to eight million passengers a year. Further aircraft parking stands will be built over King George V Dock and an eastern extension of the terminal over the dock. There will also be a new traffic control centre and an airport-related or mixed-use development at the eastern end of the airport site on vacant land. There will be a parallel taxiway to connect with the runway, and multi-storey airport parking.
Chief executive of the airport, Richard Gooding, said: 'Following the extensive period of consultation, the master plan was generally welcomed by our stakeholders, who largely agreed with our development strategy.'
'Our neighbours are assured that we have no plans to change our operating hours, we will continue to close at night and for 24 hours on the weekend, and we will not be building an additional runway.'
'Also they will not see noticeably larger capacity aeroplanes. Our growth will instead be accommodated by maximising the use of the existing runway, improving flight occupancy and creating better facilities for passengers.'
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