First Coventry airport planning decision announced
08.04.06
Coventry Airport has been found to have acted unlawfully in building its Thomsonfly passenger terminal - but it will be allowed to stay. The temporary passenger terminal at the centre of a planning dispute will not have to be knocked down, the deputy prime minister ruled, it was annouced yesterday.
Warwick District Council decided the building at Coventry Airport breached guidelines because it had been created without planning consent. But John Prescott has ruled that although the council was right to take action against TUI, the airport's owners, the building can stay.
The airport will now be subject to certain conditions as part of the ruling - incuding restrictions on night flights and noise. Sound insulation grant schemes will be available for local residents affected by aircraft noise.
Airport owners TUI recently sold the site to CAFCO, an Irish / American firm. They intend to continue with the planned development. Bill Savage, chairman of the airport, said he was 'absolutely delighted' with the decision.
John McGowan, assistant to the council's chief executive, said: 'It was the result we were expecting.' A further inquiry into plans to build another new permenent terminal - capable of handling up to 2 million passengers per year - is ongoing and not expected to end until May.
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