Airport project gets green light

GUERNSEY'S airport project has been given the go ahead.

Environment Department board members today agreed with their planners advice that the £80.4m. operation, which includes levelling the runway and extending the safety ends, should be passed.

Of the five board members, only Deputy Janine Le Sauvage dissented, concerned about where a temporary concrete batching plant would operate from.

The board also approved plans to use Longue Hougue for a temporary harbour.

• More on this story in Wednesday's Guernsey Press