Sale raises fears for the future of Gloucestershire Airport

When the sale of Gloucestershire Airport was announced yesterday two questions stood out - how will it impact the site's businesses, and is it the beginning of the end of the airport itself?

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Welcome to Thursday’s edition. We’re saving our briefing notes and picture story we often top our editions with for tomorrow’s full members edition. So you’ll have to put up with a single feature-length article exploring what the news of the sale of Gloucestershire Airport means.

It seems far from certain this will be a simple change of ownership or what assurances either of the two current owners will be able to get from a buyer that it should stay as an airport.

Cheltenham Borough Council and Gloucester City Council, the co-owners, appear to be saying that is their preferred use for the site going forward, but as the article explains there is not a great deal of faith in that happening.

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