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Government guidance on ‘Flexible Options for Planning Permissions’ in respect of section 73 applications states: ‘ Provisions relating to statutory consultation and publicity do not apply. However, local planning authorities have discretion to consider whether the scale or nature of the change...

Hope it’s not true, however, @CCGE29 who posted about it on the MAN thread always seems to be very well informed where developments at MAN are concerned.

Posts on the MAN Route Development & Rumours thread strongly hinting that WIZZ may well be consolidating LBA/LPL flights at MAN in S26.

Perhaps it means it’s possible to have a lighter, and therefore cheaper, roof structure by placing the load on the floor rather than the roof.

I seem to recall that someone posted a while ago that the Airbus narrow bodies are CAT3b equipped as standard, whereas the 737s are CAT3a with 3b as an option.

Yes, the NIMBYs and the clamour at that time for an ‘Airport for Yorkshire’ at Thorne to rival Manchester meant LBA didn’t get the prominence it should have in the decision. Some politicians seem to cling on to that that idea with their obsession with DSA!

Reminds of before I retired and frequently being told - ‘it’s ok I’ve spell checked it’. A quick scan of the work and my standard reply - ‘the words appear to be spelt correctly but some are the incorrect words and in the wrong order’. Things don’t get any better!

At the time the local MP with the most influence in government was Stuart Andrew as a government whip and then a minister in Gove’s department yet he chose to sit on the fence.

Yes, even though local MP Milliband has the climate portfolio it looks as though the growth card will be used to trump the climate argument. Just as 2 Jags used the investment card first time around to trump the ‘no need’ conclusion of the public inquiry in order to support a local Labour project.

Yes, it’s definitely a Silver City170 - the route info, clothing of the passengers giving a rough date (I’ve a photo of me in the obligatory short trousers leaving a DC3 at IOM) and the distinctive windows and doorway of the 170.

It’s a Bristol 170 Wayfarer (the passenger version of the Bristol 170 Freighter) of Silver City Airways. They flew from Blackpool and LBA to the Isle of Man in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s using the Wayfarer and DC3’s. Some of the flights from LBA went via Blackpool. As a child I flew on...

I seem to recall that a protester who had purchased a ticket glued himself to the roof of an aircraft at London City and subsequently he was convicted and jailed.

With the delays and cancellations there were probably less night time movements than scheduled, leaving scope for flexibility.

Failure to make a decision by the agreed date would deem the applications having been refused and leave LBA having to appeal to the Planning Inspectorate for a decision!

As you say LBA agreed to submit new applications and Vincent Hodder in his open letter on the LBA website assumes that the Council will follow the same procedure to allow interested parties to comment on the new applications...