Very early leaked documents suggest the new national policy statements will relax green belt protection. In what circumstances I don’t know. Whilst I wouldn’t normally support such a policy, if it can be used to benefit this case then why not use it.
New policy should be out later this year.

a change to the PPG2 policy??? where did you hear this?. first we have heard of it..

Peter, Gatwicks land surrounds almost three sides of our property. their boundary being the width of a wire fence adjacent to ours on all of those sides. in fact the taxiway to the main runway is less than probably 150 yards away from our BBQ area! we are so close that their fire training ground is less than 50 yards away from our boundary. you could stand up and hit the aircraft with a golf ball while eating a burger! the runway is probably 400 yards away from our display area. Now you see why the “greenbelt” tag is utter nonsense?, it was likely created in 1988 to try to stop gatwick expanding. according to the planners it was green belt from 1950’s but took 35 years to formalise it!…:rolleyes: yea ok..

in reality it would not make one jot of difference, if national air transport policy demanded that the airport required the space, it would be used.