Wolverhampton Business Airport (at Halfpenny Green) is a small airfield which lacks many of the basic infrastructure requirements for use by large aircraft. It is also very difficult to get to by car or public transport from major centres of population, including the Black Country.

It is located in the Green Belt, in a particularly important swathe of countryside which stretches unspoilt from the edge of the West Midlands conurbation to the Welsh Marches in Shropshire.
However, this did not stop the previous owners seeking to introduce commercial aircraft.

Previous proposals to expand the airport also relied on provision of highly damaging new bypasses through the Green Belt to the West of Wolverhampton and Stourbridge which we and local residents successfully defeated in 2004.

We continue to oppose expansion of the airport and believe that it is not suitable for use for commercial aviation.

15.01.09