Future Infrastructure Developments

[Adiewomersley]

Firstly welcome to Forums4airports, it's good to have you with us!

The pre-existing plans have already been through the planning process. The plans if carried out would enable the airport to continue to grow passengers to 7.1mppa which was agreed during the previous planning process.

The airport no longer wishes to pursue with the old plans as they retain the old crumbling terminal building which doesn't meet the latest regulatory standards and it limits the airports ability to provide the customer service it wishes to offer it's passengers.

The new terminal would be a purpose built building and will reach BREEAM standard of excellence. The new terminal will enable the same number of passengers as previously planned for with facilities that are carbon neutral.

The new terminal location is within the airport boundary and so no green belt land will be used.

If the airport is unable to pursue with it's plans it could decide to proceed with the previous plans to increase passenger numbers.

If the airports current plans are rejected, it can continue to increase the number of night flights unhindered as there are currently no restrictions on the newest types of aircraft. If the plans for a new terminal are granted, new night time quotas would likely be implemented with new guidelines for the newest aircraft types.

More details can be found here: https://forums4airports.com/pages/EGNMinformation2/

Hello, thanks for the welcome. I've been around for ages using a different account, lost my details so just created a new one out of convenience

Thanks too for the info. So basically GALBA are trying to stop something which has already been agreed (increase in passenger numbers). They are vandals too. At the top of Henshaw lane there's a green Internet box? with graffiti by GALBA on it.

 

[White Heather]

Hello, thanks for the welcome. I've been around for ages using a different account, lost my details so just created a new one out of convenience

Thanks too for the info. So basically GALBA are trying to stop something which has already been agreed (increase in passenger numbers). They are vandals too. At the top of Henshaw lane there's a green Internet box? with graffiti by GALBA on it.

Hi, yes, its been there most of the year. Yes they are just a bunch of NIMBY vandals. In my view they are not interested in the environment, only themselves. Just a modern day version of LACAN from the past. I spoke to one of their leaders earlier in the year and he said he didn't want LBA to be there and everyone should do as he does.....use Manchester, and get there by using an electric car!! He had no answer to my retort that the production of electricity is the worlds biggest contributor to CO2 emissions (and aviation is down at 10th in the list).

The environmental issues are simply an excuse for them to hide behind so they look like environmentalists instead of selfish people who choose to live near an airport and then complain about it.

 

[Adiewomersley]

Hey guys, is there a link to the approved expansion on leeds city council etc?

 

[Aviador]

Hey guys, is there a link to the approved expansion on leeds city council etc?

If you go to the LCC planning portal and search for Leeds Bradford airport, you will find all previous planning applications and the documents associated with them.

 

[lbaspotter]

Airport terminal plans to be discussed

Plans for a replacement terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport are set to be discussed by councillors later this week.

www.insidermedia.com

 

[Flightlevel330]

Airport terminal plans to be discussed

Plans for a replacement terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport are set to be discussed by councillors later this week.

www.insidermedia.com

Does anyone more intelligent than me know if this Is the meeting where a decision is made (God please be a good one, although am not holding my breath), and if it is a good outcome, basically it’s spades in the ground the next day?

 

[blotbuc1]

Wouldn’t claim to be more intelligent! However, it appears members of the panel are being asked to consider a position statement on the application prepared by Council officers and give their views on subject areas of the application submission. They are not being asked to make a decision on the application at this meeting. No doubt they will be asked to make a decision at a subsequent meeting when officers have prepared a final report with a recommendation.

 

[Seasider]

I must be showing my age, but the writer of the article looks about 18 to me.

 

[tonysmith]

There is a good article in today’s online T&A about the expansion.

 

[Wardair166]

MPs among those to object to airport expansion plan

LEEDS city councillors will meet this week to discuss the latest on Leeds Bradford Airport’s proposed £150m rebuild, as thousands have voiced…

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk

Expansion is somewhat misleading as consent to handle more pax has already been granted back in 2019. This is essentially a modernisation plan. The ignoramuses opposing this scheme should be aware of this critical fact

 

[Len Fish]

So ironic that the Labour MP’s oppose plans that will bring thousands of jobs to the region, blinded by the bandwagon of climate change targets.

 

[Wardair166]

Utter morons. I hope LCC treat them with the contempt they deserve. Makes my blood boil

 

[Flightlevel330]

Without turning this into a political debate, I hope the new Labour leader will have a word with these clowns. I would never in a month on Sunday’s vote for any Labour MP in Leeds now.

 

[White Heather]

Without turning this into a political debate, I hope the new Labour leader will have a word with these clowns. I would never in a month on Sunday’s vote for any Labour MP in Leeds now.

Me neither. I have written to my MP and told him that too. And my Lib Dem Councillors, who sent out incorrect and misleading information. I forwarded that to LBA, and they issued a document clarifying the facts to all councillors, but mine witheld it and didn't supply their ward with the true facts. Very much in league with the GALBA NIMBYs. This is THE major source of employment in NW Leeds, and they oppose it! Total morons. It's a real worry that such people are running our city.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Objectors press their case against Leeds-Bradford Airport expansion plan

OBJECTORS against Leeds Bradford Airport’s expansion plan say they have sent a “clear message” to decision makers - with more people opposed…

www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk

Another negative article in the 'Wharfedale'

 

[Bigman]

Well, if they canvas me at the next local elections, I will tell them straight that I am not voting for a party that is openly against providing local jobs and prosperity for the local economy, all the sake of what is let's face it a miniscule environmental issue when looking at the greater scheme of things.

 

[Jerry]

Well, if they canvas me at the next local elections, I will tell them straight that I am not voting for a party that is openly against providing local jobs and prosperity for the local economy, all the sake of what is let's face it a miniscule environmental issue when looking at the greater scheme of things.

Or write to your MP now? If MPs start getting constituents writing in about it then it might open their eyes a bit.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Good suggestion.

 

[Wardair166]

I think the fact that less than 2000 felt it important enough to oppose the plans out of a huge population within the airport catchment should be taken into account.

 

[Statto]

Objectors press their case against Leeds-Bradford Airport expansion plan

OBJECTORS against Leeds Bradford Airport’s expansion plan say they have sent a “clear message” to decision makers - with more people opposed…

www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk

Another negative article in the 'Wharfedale'

The GALBA approach is to basically write a press release giving their opinion on the plans and the local press will then publish it or bits of it, because that's how local news works these days. There is nothing to stop a group of us writing something in response and sending it in. I thought some of the guys on here did something similar at the start of the planning process. There are some obvious areas to call GALBA out on

- lots of the objections came from out of the area so their claim about the 'people of Leeds giving a clear message' can be easily challenged if someone could add up how many objections didn't have a Leeds postcode
- their claim about it leading to a doubling of emissions is not backed up at all by the councils own paper which shows emissions from the airport will rise by about 20%
- even the 20% rise doesn't take into account the fact that the 'growth' at LBA may well come from people that otherwise would use Manchester.