Democratically and Politically Unwise to Issue an Airport Expansion Decision Notice that Short-Changes Residents
Local Liberal Democrats want a planning legal agreement between Uttlesford District Council (UDC) and Manchester Airport Group at Stansted Airport that does not short-change residents. They have called for a halt to Stansted Airport being issued with a premature Planning Decision Notice by UDC. The Lib Dems say a Decision Notice to allow the go-ahead for airport expansion should be held back until a robust planning agreement has been negotiated and approved by the council's planning committee. On Sunday (April 7th), Stansted district councillor Alan Dean emailed political leaders Cllrs Howard Rolfe and John Lodge, the chairman and vice chairman of the council's planning committee, Cllrs Alan Mills and Janice Loughlin, and the chief executive, Dawn French, calling for a pause. Cllr Dean wrote: "I am deeply concerned about current events, at what seems to be a serious short-changing of the residents of Uttlesford District, and beyond, by a weak Planning Section106 legal agreement. "The S.106 agreement should no
