Carlisle Airport application

Members of a Carlisle City Council’s Development Control Committee on Friday, 4 April, gave their go ahead for development proposals for Carlisle airport.

A special reconvened meeting was held to discuss the Carlisle Airport planning application and the 63 conditions proposed to be put in place to safeguard the interests of all the consultees and interested parties.

The final approval is subject to some technical details being resolved, with key technical consultees and the Council’s specialist consultants on a small number of the conditions. It is hoped that these will be resolved within the next few days.

Subject to these issues being resolved the application will then be referred on to the Government Office for the North West which will then decide whether the City Council is able to make the decision or whether it raises issues of more than local importance that would warrant the Secretary of State’s consideration through the Public Inquiry procedure. Either the Secretary of State or an Inspector appointed to conduct the Inquiry would then make a final decision on the application.

The Carlisle Airport planning application was put forward by Stobart Air and includes the construction of replacement runway, a new passenger terminal/warehousing and a new air traffic control centre.

The City Council recognised that the application was of major public interest, and to reflect the complexity and scale of the application, a large-scale consultation exercise was undertaken. In addition to comments received from local residents and businesses, as a result of the widespread publicity given to the submission, more than 50 statutory and non-statutory organisations, agencies and authorities were specifically asked to comment.