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Coventry Airport Press Statement

9th July 2004

Coventry Airport has now received confirmation from the Planning Inspectorate of the next stages in the planning process regarding passenger terminal developments. The airport has been asked to submit an Environmental Statement (ES) regarding the Interim Passenger Facilities (IPF). Not withstanding that confirmation Coventry Airport is not required to submit any new planning application in respect of the IPF and any suggestions to the contrary are unnecessarily misleading.

The Local Planning Authority, Warwick District Council, were recently defeated in their High Court attempt to have the IPF taken out of operation. They then applied to have the Planning Inspectorate consider whether the construction of the IPF has breached any planning procedures. The Airport asked the Planning Inspectorate to consider whether a further Environmental Statement (ES) was required for them to consider. The Planning Inspectorate has now confirmed they wish to receive a further ES.

Commenting on the issue, the airport's managing director, Bill Savage, said, "We welcome the clarification of the next steps of this drawn out planning saga. We are more than happy to comply with the Planning Inspectorate's request as we have already issued a full ES for up to 2 million passengers per year that accompanied our March 2003 Planning Application.

"Coventry Airport continues to operate as normal and we are extremely confident that the recent High Court judgement shows there is no threat to our uninterrupted operations. Our only concerns are that Warwick District Council are continuing to waste taxpayers' money and that they still have not considered our full planning application for a new permanent terminal building and car parks that was submitted to them in March 2003, over 15 months ago. We call upon them to determine this application without further delay and to stop wasting taxpayers' money.

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