Future
Land available for building in Cambridge is at a premium, but the city is surrounded by large areas of green belt land on which building new housing is prohibited. In 2000, a proposal was created to relocate the airport to a new site away from the city, which would have freed up 500 acres (200 ha) of land for the building of several thousand new homes. A study for a new airport was undertaken by Cambridgeshire County Council and planning permission was requested but withdrawn.
Marshall Aerospace has continued to develop the site. In Autumn 2008 new business aviation facilities were opened, including a new 20,000 sq ft (2,000 m2) hangar adding to the 1,200,000 sq ft (100,000 m2) of hangar space already on the site.
In April 2010 Marshall Aerospace announced it would not be moving from Cambridge Airport to make way for new housing. RAF Mildenhall, Waterbeach Barracks and RAF Wyton were considered as alternative sites but Marshall concluded there were "no suitable relocation options".
In January 2011, Cambridge Airport broke off from Marshall, and released plans for the airport's future. For 2012 the airport has introduced new international holiday charter flights to Europe as well as new regular air links to the Channel Islands and France. Passenger terminal facilities are being significantly upgraded to offer customers convenient and high quality airline passenger services. The airport is planning to add further destinations in due course to key domestic and international business and leisure destinations.
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