Future Infrastructure Developments

[Easy 189]

Groundworks were started to the east of the current terminal and then mothballed a few weeks after commencement with the decision by LBA that the plans were somewhat shortsighted

 

[Len Fish]

@White Heather
In the grand scheme of things the LBA plans ARE insignificant.

They should be but unfortunately due to the likes of GALBA and their ER mates any aviation development, no matter how small, is negatively blown up out of all proportion.

 

[tomrhodes28]

The latest response I got from Tracey Brabin.


Thank you for contacting me about Leeds Bradford Airport.

I understand that in May 2020, a planning application was submitted to Leeds City Council (LCC). Planning decisions rest solely with the relevant local Planning Authority; however, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority has previously submitted comments to LCC, recognising that there is a difficult trade-off between the economic benefit the airport brings, and the carbon it produces.

The application was approved by the City Plans Panel in February 2021. However, this was subject to a change and tightening up of certain conditions being discussed and agreed with the applicant, a Section 106 agreement and referral to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Part of the draft Section 106 agreement includes a package of around £4 million to improve public transport to the airport, including financial support for bus services, and a new spur road to the proposed railway station.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has now put in place an order which prevents LCC from granting planning permission without special authorisation, and the Government has offered no indication of when a decision will be made.

I recognise that a thriving airport can greatly improve our region’s economic offer, and is projected to contribute £500m Gross Value Added by 2030, and support around 8,100 jobs, which is an increase of around 4,000 compared to 2019. I want to see the airport develop in a way that more clearly meets the needs of business and serves to drive inward investment and create jobs in the West Yorkshire economy.

However, I am absolutely not supportive of unconstrained growth that would harm our commitment to become a net zero carbon city region by 2038. Here in West Yorkshire we have a more ambitious target than central Government, and we have to meet those and exceed them if we can.

I also believe that there has to be a conversation about reducing the carbon impacts of air travel, and this requires a national, and international, approach. The Government recently published the Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain paper that includes a number of commitments around the decarbonisation of the aviation industry including a commitment to consult on their Jet Zero strategy that will set out the steps to reach net zero aviation emissions by 2050. We are considering the implications of this for West Yorkshire. I will be following this closely to ensure that it encourages the aviation industry to reduce its emissions. LBA contributes about 1.4% of total UK aviation, so would represent a small part of the challenge.

I will also be taking a wider look about the fundamentals of transport in our region with a view to protecting our environment. I recognise that we need a significant shift from car to walking and cycling for short journeys, and this is at the centre of my Connectivity Plan, by integrating active travel into our day-to-day lives. Merely encouraging people to walk and cycle however isn’t enough, and I will be supporting the building of safe infrastructure to enable this. Longer term, I want to see a fully integrated mass transit system, that makes it easier to take quick journeys on public transport, bringing together walking and cycling, rail, bus, and a future mass transit system, that is fit for a decarbonising 21st century economy.

Once again thank you for contacting me about this issue.



Yours sincerely,



Tracy Brabin

Mayor of West Yorkshire

 

[White Heather]

It would be nice if she had said she was bringing pressure to bear on the Housing Minister to approve the carbon neutral terminal, in order to generate employment and enhance the local economy! Frankly I am sick to death of being told about buses, cycling and walking. She is like a cracked record, endlessly repeating the same, rather limited agenda.

 

[Len Fish]

Transport connectivity and integration in Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire-I’m still laughing!

 

[LBA4EVER]

It would be nice if she had said she was bringing pressure to bear on the Housing Minister to approve the carbon neutral terminal, in order to generate employment and enhance the local economy! Frankly I am sick to death of being told about buses, cycling and walking. She is like a cracked record, endlessly repeating the same, rather limited agenda.

Im just sick to death with the lotta them wh! If this terminal ever gets built, like jeremy clarkson once said "i will eat my own hair" an absolute farce the whole dam lot!

 

[LBA4EVER]

Transport connectivity and integration in Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire-I’m still laughing!

You have just laugh don't you at it all, you could not make it up the sheer disaster that it is! Haha

 

[Poshgirl]

Obviously I'm not that knowledgeable about LBA (but improving!).

So, my main worry is how she will get treatment for the scars left by sitting on the fence!!

 

[tomrhodes28]

It would be nice if she had said she was bringing pressure to bear on the Housing Minister to approve the carbon neutral terminal, in order to generate employment and enhance the local economy! Frankly I am sick to death of being told about buses, cycling and walking. She is like a cracked record, endlessly repeating the same, rather limited agenda.

I've also sent a message to Robert Jenick to see what he has to say.

 

[CM.]

I sent her an email a few weeks ago and received the same reply as the one above. It didn’t really explain or answer the question I put forward to her. Just goes on about how she’s decarbonising the city. And just think 4 years of this!!

Good luck getting a reply from RJ if he’s forgotten or left his papers about LBA at the bottom then I doubt you will get a reply from him as they’re useless!

 

[JRP]

She should stick to acting mind you she was rubbish at that

 

[Aviador]

She should stick to acting mind you she was rubbish at that

Isn't acting what politicians are best at? But yes, I agree she wasn't any better at that either.

 

[HX3]

It looks as though that is the stock response many of us received from the Mayor. If she continues to sit on the fence, I give her a few years and then she will be voted out, she then may be lucky to be offered a non-speaking part for the panto season at’Alambra with Billy Pearce;-)

 

[Aviador]

The current political layout seems much like a panto already.

 

[LBA4EVER]

The current political layout seems much like a panto already.

The tories seriously just seem to of lost the plot big time! In fact i think all parties have!

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

The tories seriously just seem to of lost the plot big time! In fact i think all parties have!

Take away the environment, which I think they would be open to a debate, the Lib Dem’s seem fairly consistent and sound. The rest are just one political party.

 

[Aviador]

Are our politicians living in their own bubble? I could accept their comment's regarding the environment if other regions around the country were treated the same but we know they're not. Leeds and West Yorkshire is severely disadvantaged with all things transport. The roads are appalling, there's no integrated public transport. The airports been held back for years. All we ask is for our transport network to be dragged up from its arse. Its really not too much to ask.

 

[CM.]

Road bumps everywhere in Leeds doesn’t help as someone who drives it’s a nightmare. And flying from LBA I will be driving as public transport is non existent (almost)

 

[White Heather]

If the council still owned LBA we would probably have speed bumps the full length of the runway by now. And a cycle lane down the side of it.
GALBA protest day up there tomorrow isn't it?

 

[Len Fish]

Speaking of transport integration, under the new plans for Leeds railway station buses will no longer run into the station so you will have to lug your cases to Boar Lane to catch one. The conspiracy theorists reckon it’s all part of the plan to get you off your backside and exercising! Whatever the reason it typifies all that’s wrong with transport in Leeds and West Yorkshire, it’s a complete and utter shambles and looks as though it will always be so.