Airport deal could sell Gloucestershire short, warns business

Could the deal to sell Gloucestershire Airport, hailed as a saviour of its future and the businesses on it, be about to deliver the opposite - and cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds?

Dear readers,

After an extended August break (enforced, I might add, and not a holiday) this is the first publication for three weeks. My apologies for the hiatus.

What we have below is a shortened edition that goes big on the latest chapter of the sale of Gloucestershire Airport.

You have to feel for the businesses, big and small, that have invested so much in the site and no longer know whether they are coming or going.

And, dare I say it, you might even feel for Horizon Aero Group, which has a number of points levelled against it in the article, but chose instead to send a statement explaining it felt unable to address them due to the ongoing due diligence that could see it become the new owner of the airport.

Is the land really worth a potentially astonishing £300 million to £400 million plus, if redeveloped for houses? We’ve been unable to establish this. But the points made in the story below are difficult to dismiss even with a lack of information - that if Horizon does manage to se…