Expansion plans changes
17.12.09
Bristol Airport has made changes to its £150m expansion plans after a feedback from a pubic consultation, including limiting its proposed increase in the number of night flights. They were originally due to rise to around 12 a night under the plans, but will be capped at 10 per night. This is still up from the current average of seven flights per night.
The airport is offering to spend £10m on a series of changes to its plans, mainly involving transport links, following the public consultation. Changes include a new flyer bus service from Weston and increased funding for the £48m Bus Rapid Transit scheme and the £47m South Bristol Link road.
It will also delay building a new long stay car park on green belt land until passenger numbers have grown enough to merit the increase in spaces, and spend £100,000 to make Weston's 121 bus service – which currently runs every 2 hours from Weston to Bristol city centre via the airport – hourly.
The changes follow public consultation on the scheme, which includes multi-storey car parks, a larger terminal, new administration building and airport hotel. Three weeks of consultation on the amendments have now begun before North Somerset Council decides on the application on February 10.
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