SNAIRE (Stop Newquay Airport Expansion), the Cornish coalition opposing the proposed expansion of Newquay Airport, has sent a letter to Cornwall county council claiming inaccuracies contained in the Newquay Cornwall Airports Draft Masterplan for the airport .

The relevant county council committee meet today and the document will be on the agenda.

SNAIRE and Cornwall FoE member Betty Levene from Falmouth, said: “We have been shocked at some of the misinformation and flawed data and figures contained in this document and believe there to be very significant questions to be answered about assumptions - and also about omissions.”

SNAIRE member Roger Creagh-Osborne said: “We think one of the worst aspects of the document is the total omission of an option for positive and sustainable alternative uses for the site. This is both necessary – a no-growth or an expanded airport are both considerable loss makers - and would redress a missed opportunity; above all it would mean that the consultation process actually allowed people to respond on a full gamit of opinion which it clearly does not currently.”