Has the sale of Gloucestershire Airport hit political turbulence?

We began this story as an update on the airport sale to talk about it as an asset and about the challenges it’s facing - then we were unable to confirm the sale from one of the current owners.

Dear reader,

Straight to today’s main story.

Some of you with long memories will remember the days when Gloucestershire Airport was involved in a perpetual tug of war between its two owners - Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council.

Should it be kept as an airport? Did the county need an airport? Should it not be sold to build houses on? A decade ago it was estimated 3,500 would fit on the site.

The decision to create an arms length company, Gloucestershire Airport Ltd, was an attempt to move out of the mire and see if it could be developed as a business, with the councils overseeing and taking their cut of the income for the public purse.

When we started this story we thought all that was settled because the next big step was to handle the sale of the airport, announced jointly by both local authorities last year. It was to be a story with a happy ending after all. Two local authorities united.

Or at least we thought they were united!!!!

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