Airport Development Brief

Airport Development Brief

Development Brief Non-Technical Summary www.london-luton.com Introduction In November 1999, Her Majesty the Queen opened the new terminal building at London Luton Airport (LLA) and the new Luton Airport Parkway Station. The new terminal building is designed for a passenger throughput of approximately 5 million passengers per annum (mppa). Passenger throughput is now at this level and forecasts indicate that passenger throughput may reach 10 mppa by as early as 2004. Policy 48 of the Bedfordshire Structure Plan (adopted March 1997) states that, subject to meeting a number of environmental criteria, “proposals that seek to increase the capacity of the airport up to 10 million passengers per annum... will be permitted...”. First, however, the policy requires that an “agreed Development Brief” be prepared. London Luton Airport Operations Limited (LLAOL) has now produced the London Luton Airport Development Brief. If agreed by the local planning authority, Luton Borough Council, the Brief will form the basis of future planning applications for development at the airport. Adopted in September 2001, the Brief outlines LLAOL’s vision of the next phase of development, the “Phase 2 Proposals”. This Non-Technical Summary outlines the contents of the Brief. Background LLA serves London and the South East, the Midlands and the East of England and is important to the economic well being of the Luton-Dunstable conurbation. The projected growth at LLA is part of an overall forecast for the London Airports, which shows passenger throughput expanding from 104 mppa at present to between 147 and 212 mppa in 2015. The Brief shows how LLA could help meet this demand by expanding to the level mentioned in the Bedfordshire Structure Plan. The Brief focuses on the Land Use Plan indicating broad activity areas within the airport boundary. The Brief also considers those environmental aspects of the airport’s growth that will need to be addressed in an...

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