London Stansted Airport
This former World War 2 American bomber base began life as a global gateway after Stansted was chosen as London’s Third Airport in the mid-1980s. The present terminal building was opened in 1991. Stansted now serves about 22 million passengers a year or about 60,000 passengers a day. It handles about 500 flights a day to 146 destinations. The workforce numbers about 11,000, made up of 87 nationalities. Stansted provides 26,750 car park spaces and the site contains a third more land than Gatwick.
The government has identified Stansted as its preferred location for the next runway in the south east. While the ‘macro’ issues are national economic policy and the environment, the significant ‘micro’ issues relate to loss and bereavement, identity, population change and planning blight. The cumulative effect is a stressed community facing a substantial issue.
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