16th October 2007

Cheltenham Green party coordinator, John Heywood, is asking further questions of Cheltenham Borough Scrutiny Committees. The poor quality of answers to their first questions of a Scrutiny Committee shocked Green party members and other campaigners against plans to expand the airport at Staverton. Greens are seeking every avenue to ensure proper Environmental Scrutiny of the airport's plans are made.

The following questions were submitted for the committee meeting of 29/10/2007: 

"Could the committee explain what contribution of environmental scrutiny they are giving to the discussions of the Economy & Business Scrutiny Committee about the plans for Staverton Airport?" 

"I assume that the Environment Scrutiny Committee stands foursquare behind the Borough's Climate Change Strategy.  If the Scrutiny Committee is not going to use this Strategy as a basis for asking local businesses (like the airport and its dependent firms) to change their products and services into ones that are environmentally friendly, then what sort of direction is the Scrutiny Committe proposing?"