The nimbys at Warwick District Council rejected planning permission for a proper terminal building. I don't think it was just that though, the recession had already started to impact anyway.
It's all very odd around Baginton. Some of the people who live next to the airport like to complain about *any* plane taking off and landing. Why buy a house next to a bloody airport then?!? What did they think would happen?!?
I suppose I can kind of see their argument about it expanding into a major passenger hub (it'd be associated traffic that'd be the problem really - it's already a snarl up on Tollbar and Siskin Drive, and still is really, even with the changes to the road around there, so imagine it if the airport terminal had been popular too) but guess ultimately the same principle applies. Don't want plane noise? Don't buy near an airport!
The flight path's over my house now, so guess I'd notice more but, managed to live in London under the Heathrow flight path and, after a while, you block it out.