- Reference: 2017/2632
- Question by: David Kurten
- Meeting date: 13 July 2017
To ask the Mayor what representations he has made to the Secretary of State for Defence, or the Civil Aviation Authority about the fact that RAF Northolt has been stealthily increasing the volume of its commercial flights over recent years, so that now, most flights are non-military. The Ministry of Defence has successfully used the airbase's military status to allow 12,000 commercial flights a year, whilst carefully avoiding any meaningful public consultation on what is essentially, a change of use. With airlines like FlyBe openly lobbying for access to Northolt, local residents are concerned that this airbase is set to...