Howards/Springfield

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RE: Howards/Springfield

(02/08/2016 19:14)Dentonian Wrote:  As you are the "local" I'll bow to your better knowledge overall. However, those of us with a long memory (about 20 years) will fall about laughing at the suggestion of Mobberley being linked to M'cr Airport by bus. Wasn't it the residents of Mobberley who famously organised a fundraiser to fight the Second Runway plans on the grounds of environmental concerns - and all turned up in Rolls Royces. Maybe wait a few years until HS2 is running, then they can catch a bus (yeah, right) to Well Green International Interchange, from where they can catch their £55 billion (and rising) toy and be at their beloved Heathrow in barely an hour.

Most of Cheshire is very diverse. Trying to claim the people with Rolls Royces represent an entire Cheshire town or village is like saying drug dealers represent a Greater Manchester town or suburb.

The real local objections to Runway 2 were noise concerns as a result of low flying aircraft over Cheshire - a lot of the environmentalists who objected came from further afield and would have turned up at any Airport proposing expansion. Councillors in Manchester Town Hall were happy to debate the economic benefits of Runway 2 with Greater Manchester councils getting a share of any profits but would they have been so-pro Runway 2 if it had resulted in low flying planes over central Manchester and the profits had gone to Cheshire County Council instead? Runway 2 was a win-win situation for councils in Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Tameside etc. but a very different scenario for Cheshire. Some homeowners got just £500 compensation (after a lengthy battle) in exchange for very low aircraft flying overhead from 6am to 10pm (and all night whenever the airport declares 'essential' maintenance works are required. One homeowner on a street with terrace houses got no compensation despite their neighbour getting compensation - the Airport claimed they had to draw the line somewhere!

However, being inconvenienced by the Airport doesn't automatically mean people want to choose a less convenient/more expensive flight option to avoid using Manchester Airport.