News: Birmingham Airport unveils masterplan
Flights > News > # 585 (31/10/2005)
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Expansion at Birmingham airport is aimed at offering many more long haul flights, especially to the Indian sub-continent |
Birmingham airport has launched its Draft Master Plan, with the following proposals:
- Passenger forecast of up to 33 million by 2030;
- Supporting as many as 27,430 job opportunities by 2030;
- Generating income of £957 million in the West Midlands region;
- Proposed runway extension and second runway;
- Provision for third Passenger Terminal;
- Property Valuation Support Scheme for affected properties;
- All developed within a stringent environmental management policy and mitigation programme;
- Extensive consultation exercise begins.
These details were today released by Birmingham International Airport (BIA) as it launched its new draft Master Plan, “Towards 2030: Planning a Sustainable Future for Air Transport in the Midlands”. In publishing its long-term vision for the future, the Airport triggered the start of a major consultation process to seek the views of all its stakeholders and other interested parties about the proposals.
Commenting on the launch, the Airport’s Managing Director, Richard Heard, said:
“In line with Government policy and support for continued development at Birmingham International Airport, we have prepared a blueprint for the future, outlining how we believe development could be delivered in a progressive and sustainable way up to the year 2030. In the ever changing and increasingly ‘international’ world that we live in today, standing still is not an option.
We believe that the Airport should continue to grow and develop, as it has over the last twenty years, to continue to support the growth and development of the region. However, we believe that a coherent, comprehensive and effective policy, which deals with the environmental impact of our operations and future growth & development, is also essential. Although some elements of the proposals will not be needed for many years, the draft Master Plan should help to remove uncertainty for our neighbours.
The trust and support from the communities we serve is vital, and crucial to our success. The Airport brings many benefits to the local community, not least jobs and wealth, but we are aware that operations can impact on the lives of our neighbours. Over the years we have operated a good neighbour policy and we will continue to listen to local people and work with them to mitigate the impacts of our operations."
The draft Master Plan consultation is open until Friday 31st March 2006. Once responses have been received and examined, the Airport expects to consider publishing a new adopted Master Plan later in 2006.
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What is perhaps most interesting in this latest announcement is the apparent relegation of the plans for a second runway to the second part of one bullet point, together with an admission that "Although some elements of the proposals
