Businesses are looking forward to a second golden age of the once-buzzing Southend Airport, the Echo reports. A blueprint to expand the hub has been announced by Rochford and Southend councils and it is hoped the proposed train terminal and longer runway will help create 3,000 jobs.
Keith Hudson, deputy leader of Rochford District Council, said: 'For many years our airport has languished and now we will see a renaissance.' His views are shared by firms based at the site and the proposed expansion has been welcomed by companies eager to see passenger numbers return to that of the 1960s, when figures reached 700,000 passenger flights in a year, the newspaper reports. This has tailed off to around 30,000, but with the planned expansion it is hoped numbers could reach up to two million a year. |
