Gloucestershire Airport could go up for sale again - or it might not
Businesses at Gloucestershire Airport hoping for some certainty after months of speculation about the site's sale won't like the mixed messages currently coming from the two local authority owners.
After months of speculation about its future, Gloucestershire Airport could go back on the market again - but then again it might not, writes Carmelo Garcia.
The planned sale of the 375-acre Staverton airport, which is jointly owned by Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council, fell through earlier this year after months of negotiations and controversy.
The site was being sold for more than its asking price of £25m to Anglo-Indian business Horizon Aero Group.
But it fell through after Horizon Aero Group said it was unable to secure the necessary funding when a financial partner withdrew from the deal.
Emotions and controversy around the sale ran high from the off - initially with Councillor Jeremy Hilton (Lib Dem), the leader of the city council appearing to question the decision to sell, made by the previous Conservative leadership team.
And all through the process businesses on the airport protested loudly that they were being kept in the dark about t…
