Halfpenny Green Airfield

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NEW AIRPORT PROPOSALS

An application has been lodged for Phase One of the airport’s Master Plan. This is a brief summary of their intentions.

  • 500,000 passengers per year using turboprop jets taking up to 110 passengers each.
  • Jet engine testing facilities.
  • A runway extended from 1198 m. to 1657 m., which closes Water Lane and is 45 m. wide. Just over one mile long.
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    The runway starts literally touching their boundary hedge with Six Ashes Road at Halfpenny Green. It then crosses Water Lane and meets the hedge on Crab Lane near Highgate Farm. The wood near Crab Lane is felled.

    HIGHGATE FARM and the two houses and farm buildings at the junction of Crab Lane and Gospel Ash Road are to be demolished and the 900 year old Sweet Chestnut tree there will be felled.

    The runway extends outside the airport’s boundary and the Local Plan Policy Area out into open Green Belt agricultural land. At this point the runway is over 7 m. (23 ft) above present ground level.

    The Engine Testing facilities are also on this open Green Belt land. It is to be used to test BOEING 737 jet engines, initially 2 aircraft per day, and for 5 ˝ hours per day.

    Road improvements, at this stage, will principally affect Himley crossroads, Tom Lane and Crab Lane with a Traffic Island at White Cross.

    The airport says that 90% of the traffic will use this route, but we believe that it will be split more evenly with an approach from Stourton. This route would require improvements at two road junctions and then a traffic island near Highgate Farm.

    Their Phase One using 50 seater jets will mean about 40 flights each day, one on average each 20 minutes spread over 15 hours a day. Peak hour flows will be much different. These proposals would clearly change the roads and countryside around Halfpenny Green and an extremely wide area for all time. And at this moment we have no further information on the airport’s future proposals.

    The following people would be pleased to discuss the airport proposals with you:-

    Trevor Rees (Chairman Bobbington Parish Council) – 01384 221474

    Norman Jones (CPRE and Bobbington Parish Council) – 01384 221230

    David Giddings (Chairman WAAG) – 01384 873646

    Jill Humphries (Clerk to Bobbington Parish Council) – 01384 221373

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