My uneducated thoughts too… area finally gets a valuable M18 link road connection, land prices presumably rocket, then a few years later close the airport…allegedly…
Makes perfect sense to me,maybe give them planning permission then send RAF in to bomb link road now that would be funny weird sense of humour me.
Anyone who suspects the motives of Peel should do a bit of digging into their involvement in Sheffield City Airport.. a failure that allegedly made them a tidy sum.