A new Blogsite for Elmdon!

Good morning all; welcome to this new Blog page, which has been put together specifically to address the myriad issues arising from the expansion of Elmdon Airport, AKA Birmingham International, and the way in which the expansion proposals affect local residents and the local environment as a whole.
This controversy first began back in the autumn of 2002 with the Government's publication of the Air Transport White Paper, which was based on the 'predict and provide' model of the RASCO study that underpinned the recommendations put forward in that publication.
The conflict of interests began at the start of 2003, when BIA put forward proposals to build a wide-spaced additional runway parallel to the existing facility, but moved in a southerly direction reaching from the southern edge of Elmdon Hill to a point not far short of Catherine-de-Barnes village.
The impact of that proposal, from an evironmental, ecological and practical aspect caused massive opposition amongst those people in or close to the affected areas, and made BIA management think twice about taking the proposals further into their master plan document.
After delay on top of delay, that document was eventually released in November of 2007, bringing to an end a five-year period of blight on local homes and businesses; however the issue of the impact caused by the ongoing proposal to extend the existing runway is still very much 'live', and a source of a great deal of concern to local residents and groups.
The 'Save Elmdon Action Group' was born in 1990 when Elmdon Park came under threat from developers well before the Airport controversy, and has continued to lobby the DeTR and BIA to take account of all aspects of airport expansion and their effect on the local environment before proceeding further.
SEAG is composed of over twenty local residents, most of whom have spent a lot of their lives in the Elmdon area and know from personal experience just what the effects of these proposals will be upon their amenity and way of life.
In the weeks and months to come I sincerely hope that this blogsite will become a focal point for those of you who have a view or a comment to make on the matter, and make yourselves known to the wider Elmdon Community.

Johnny Bramham.