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Planning application for 112 houses (340 beds) on the airfield site.

https://planning.sstaffs.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=QIAX6QOXKNI00

How long before the first tenants start complaining about the noise...?

I've just bought this house and there's low flying aircraft everywhere! They just keep landing and taking off. Jeez.

~ Scott

Well that will be the end of Halfpenny Green airport, I did my qualifying cross country to there 36 years ago

If it gets approved vital that the properties have a clause in the deeds recognising the existence and use of the airfield.I believe this has been done at Solent!Regards Stampe

Hold on a minute guys.

Reading the planning portal documents there appears to be a master plan which covers upgrades to the whole site including new hangars and café.

I'm going to put my outrage into the hold for the time being.

The plan itself looks pretty good and I guess unlocks a lot of cash for HPG which can only be a good thing and they appear to be upgrading much of the site.

I agree though about possible complaints but what d#%+*¥ head buys a house literally on an airfield without noticing the noise or possible issues, if I lived down that end I’d be moving there in a heartbeat

I also suspect, hope that the construction of the homes will take advantage of triple glazing and other technologies to at least ensure the noise, when in the house isn’t an issue.

I do however if approved it’s not the start of the end as I do like this airfield.

Telling that there is/was no thought to having any kind of housing with aircraft access to the aerodrome. Houses are right there next to the taxiway...

Good place to live if you fly from there Your plane on your doorstep.

...... and it only take a ball or two to bounce from a garden onto the taxiway or someone to hack a hole into the fence so that they can take doggies for walks to suspend use.

I think the thread title is misleading.

The airport is endeavouring to significantly improve its infrastructure . It is financing this through the adjacent housing development.

I think the main stumbling block to this being approved is the poor local road access and local opposition (the area has many high net wealth individuals with country residences).

I may be biased - I was an Air Scout at Halfpenny Green 52 years ago!

Presuming that there's something in the plans to say if you buy a house, don't complain about the aircraft noise, then that's surely got to be a great way to help an airfield like Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green develop for the future - look at all the new hangarage the scheme brings!

I thought I read somewhere on this Forum that there is a stipulation that now means you can't move to a property in close proximity to a motor racing circuit, concert venue, airport etc. that was there before you moved in and then complain about noise and disturbance.
If that's the case, has it ever been tried in court yet - anyone know ?

The problem with these developments is that it's just a foot in the door. Roads will be built which end at the airport boundary ready for the next phase. They did this at Panshanger.

If the airfield wants to make money, why not buy land a long way from the airfield and build houses there? Is there something wrong with our planning laws? (rhetorical!)

Paul_Sengupta wrote:If the airfield wants to make money, why not buy land a long way from the airfield and build houses there? Is there something wrong with our planning laws? (rhetorical!)

That would require additional money to buy the new building land. Presumably they already own the land referred to here.

I have misgivings about the new industrial estate ring road which skirts Rougham Airfield near me which has at least two roundabouts, each containing a short (fenced off at present) spur road pointing directly at the main runway 100yds away.