Category: Airport Threat

There was a co-ordinated response to the proposals for a Midlands Airport, with a detailed document produced to highlight the issues arising from the Government proposals, as well as providing the response to the Government questionnaire. The summary section of the SACG response is reproduced below, with more complete details held in the Research section… Read more

When the news broke about the Government Midlands Airport proposals. Warwickshire County Council engage a Consultancy firm to review the various options and to consider the implications. Jacobs Consultancy looked at all the possible changes that would increase capacity in the Midlands The above changes were then grouped into 5 scenarios The various scenarios were… Read more

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The Department of Transport stage an exhibition in the village, as detailed below The level of organisation from the DoT was highlighted by the fact the information documents ran out at a key time. Read more

With the 2002 Airport Proposal gathering such a wide audience, and generating so much public interest, there were some excellent review articles written in various press outlets. Some of there are referenced as part of various articles in this archive, along with links to the full article, given copyright limitations, where the article still be… Read more

Although in 2002/03 the concept of personal websites was still rather in its infancy, many villages joined the published press in putting their messages online. A collage of some of the various pages is shown below (it was not possible to get samples of them all, as some were not held in the Internet Archive). Read more

The following pages contain various items of interest relating to the Airport Threat in 2002/03, complementing the initial story. Airport Consultation 2002 – Midlands Summary Document July 2002 Front Page News 2002 July – September 2002 An Online Angle to the Campaign July 2002 – December 2003 Campaign For Rural England / Friends of the… Read more

Shown below are a selection of Newspaper Headlines from 2002. More details from the various local newspapers during 2002 and 2003 are in the Research section of the archive, including the various letters from villagers published at the time. Read more