Cllr Alan Dean

Liberal Democrat Councillor for Stansted North on Uttlesford District Council and former Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group Learn more

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Goodbye BAA Stansted! Welcome Manchester to Stansted!

by Alan Dean on 19 January, 2013

BAA is dead. Stansted Airport has been sold to the Manchester Airport Group. The UK’s third largest airport has gone full circle from public sector to private sector and now back to the public sector, or at least to a company in which local authorithave are part owners, I believe.

My main concern is that the Manchester Airport Group is in the property development business. See this Guardian article http://gu.com/p/3d7d6/tf about Manchester Airport City enterprise zone. We aren’t in the business of building cities in the countryside around Stansted! Our challenge is to retain and renew jobs in our small town and village centres.

An early task for Uttlesford Council and local politicians will be to meet the new owners and sound them out on their aspirations. Will they see Stansted as a southern partner to their northern base. Will they want Stansted to grow in competition with Manchester?

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  1. Geoff Powers says:

    They’re won’t be welcome if they envisage masive housing development in the area, as is rumoured!

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