CAA criticise Belfast City planning application report
27.02.10
A report by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on information supplied by Belfast City Airport has prompted calls for the withdrawal of its runway extension planning application, according to the Belfast Telegraph. An environmental statement supporting the application has ‘significant deficiencies’, the CAA said.
The report submitted to Planning Service by the CAA said that the evidence in the aiprort's environmental statement was incomplete and advised caution on relying on it. It expressed particular concerns over the potential for the existing planning agreement under which the airport operates to be breached, particularly the annual limit on seats for sale, and questioned the way the airport had worked out how large an area surrounding the site is affected by noise.
Calling for a public inquiry into the plans, PUP leader Dawn Purvis said the report ran a ‘coach and horses’ through the airport’s environmental statement and questioned whether it can be trusted to control its own noise levels.
However, an airport spokesman told the newspaper: ‘This report is one of many from a range of stakeholders that will be evaluated by Planning Service as part of the planning process. We are still awaiting a decision on the application to extend its runway, which will benefit the local community and wider economy.’
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