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Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu May 16, 2019 2:32 pm
by Jonzarno
hospitals should go for much higher bed occupancy


Not just hospitals......... :wink: :D

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu May 16, 2019 3:10 pm
by Pete L
It would be nice if some kindly mathematician or engineer gave all major government departments a brief lecture in queueing theory. With a brick. Repeatedly until the message sinks in.

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri May 17, 2019 7:31 am
by CloudHound
I had many a conversation about the CAA as Safety promoter and Regulator but never changed minds.

The best one could point to is the GA Unit which reached out to us lot at exhibitions.

So the notion of the CAA promoting aviation generally was and never will be going to happen. Which is where APPG-GA came in. Wasn’t it?

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri May 17, 2019 11:11 am
by Jonzarno
So if Mr Wimpy bids enough for the land on which the local hospital stands, we should let him knock it down and build some more of those lovely blocks of flats in its place? :roll: :clown:


That Councillor might well have said 'yes' :roll:


On that basis: just think how many blocks of flats they could build on the land occupied by Heathrow........ :mrgreen: :clown:

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri May 17, 2019 11:27 am
by kanga
Jonzarno wrote:..

On that basis: just think how many blocks of flats they could build on the land occupied by Heathrow........ :mrgreen: :clown:


I'm sure that has occurred to some of those backing 'Boris island' :roll:

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri May 17, 2019 7:43 pm
by Rob P
I've outlined my theory beforetimes and I'm happy to run it up the flagpole once more.

The obvious place for Marshalls to relocate is Mildenhall. Just a few miles down the A14, loads of space for them with some spare to develop industrial units to lease out, maybe even some for housing, in excess of the existing base housing that is to be vacated.

The timescale for the USAFE exit is slipping back and will maybe reach... Oh, let me think... Ten years?

Marshalls have consistently denied any interest whatsoever on a site where they already have placed a facility. Now if I were anticipating a bargaining session with the MOD I'm pretty sure I wouldn't up front say "Ideally we'd move to Mildenhall" That would be rather kicking the legs from under your negotiators. I'd probably pick the three nearest options, however unlikely (Duxford anyone) and put about how all these wonderful, local opportunities beckon.

"But, Mr MOD, if the price was right I suppose we could overcome all the difficulties and think about Mildenhall..."

Those around in ten years, see if I'm right.

Rob P

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:36 pm
by Dave W

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:48 pm
by 2Donkeys
No surprise I think. Like @Rob P , I believe that there are some fall guy options in the published choices, designed to distract from the real plan.

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:25 pm
by Gertie
lobstaboy wrote:Cranfield too far for employee retention?

There's a map of where employees live in the original report (must be getting on for 15 years old now).

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:27 pm
by Gertie
johnm wrote:This went round the buoy over 10 years ago. It’s a really bad idea. There is no way that such a development can fit with the Newmarket Road and A14. They’ll need massive infrastructure development, though the planners were convinced that all the new residents would go everywhere by bike and bus when I talked about it last time :roll:

Part of the problem was the local planners being overruled re the barns on Newmarket Road. That should have been residential, and the barns should have been where Arbury Camp (aka Arbury Park aka whatever-it's-called-this-week) has ended up. Then Newmarket Road would be a perfectly good route into town from the airfield site - one lane for buses and bikes, one for cars, all the foreigner shopping traffic out of the equation.

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:32 pm
by Gertie
James Chan wrote:who is approving the change of land use to housing?

I did, amongst others (it's been in the plans since 2003).

It was held up first by the "over my dead body" from Sir Arthur, and then by an internal political struggle within Marshalls which the "stay" faction won at the time I was following it.

My fellow councillors did get rather bored with my declaration of interest "as a regular user of the airport".

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:36 pm
by Gertie
WingsOff wrote:Much better bet, just strike a deal with MOD

:D :lol: :D :lol: :D

Last time around the MOD couldn't even do a deal with Defence Estates - so much for joined up government!!!

The senior civil servant tasked with getting the deal wrote us a letter explaining his failure:

"I went and asked them, and they said 'no'."

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:00 am
by Overflight
In all the chat about Duxford, no mention at all of extending the runway - how on earth were they ever going serve their current client base with about a 1,300m strip? Unless the future for MADG entailed kicking tyres on King Airs?!

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:32 am
by Rob P
I believe it was proposed to extend the hard runway westward, though personally I think eastwards on a bridge could have made life on the M11 more interesting :D

Rob P

Re: Marshall Aerospace moving from Cambridge airport

PostPosted:Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:55 pm
by Gertie
Rob P wrote:I believe it was proposed to extend the hard runway westward, though personally I think eastwards on a bridge could have made life on the M11 more interesting :D

... and if it had been done a few decades ago it might have saved my then colleague from landing his glider on the motorway embankment :lol: