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1)   What does "Airport Status" mean?

Cotswold Airport (or as was at the time Kemble Airfield) was granted on the 01 September 2008 Airport status from the Economic Regulation Group of the Civil Aviation Authority under Section 38 of the Airports Act 1986. The latter along with the Civil Aviation Authority (Economic Regulation of Airports) Regulations 1986 (SI 1986 No 1544) is the legislation which covers the economic regulation of airports and full details of which can be found on the internet.

Once approved as an Airport under these Regulations, Part V of the Act confers on the Airport the status of a statutory undertaker for the purposes of various pieces of legislation. One piece of legislation this applies to is the Town & Country Planning Acts and in particular the Town & Country (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (as amended) within which Airports are granted a number of permitted development rights (ie rights available to them for various development without the need for formal planning consents which would otherwise require planning permission). The principal rights available to private Airports under this Act include :

- The right to carry out on operational land development (including the erection or alteration of an operational building) in connection with the provision of services and facilities at the Airport.
- Development permitted would include :
- the construction of a passenger terminal less than 500 square metres in floorspace
- development in connection with the provision of air traffic control services
- development in connection with the navigation of aircraft using the airport or the monitoring of the movement of aircraft using the airport
- use of buildings within the airport for purposes connected with air transport or other flying activities at the airport
- the construction of an operational building which is a building required in connection with the movement or maintenance of aircraft or with the embarking, disembarking, loading,discharge or transport of passengers, livestock or goods

Full details can be found within the Town & Country (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (as amended) Schedule 2 Part 18 under Aviation Development

The reason behind the introduction of this legislation was to protect and assist Airports in operating and developing efficiently and economically and encouraging them to invest in new facilities (duties which are also required of the Civil Aviation Authority under the Airport Acts) without the red tape and stringent conditions which may be applied by a local planning authority.
 

 

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