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Doncaster’s airport my number one priority, is being supported I am vigorously pursuing by £20m to press the reopening of our ahead with its airport and despite the planned mobilisation challenging timeline, our programme. plan is to see our airport City of Doncaster open in Spring 2026. Council’s Cabinet has “The financial package last week (February 12) will enable critical approved £10m funding mobilisation works package to continue with to continue and drive the plan of re-opening forward momentum the former Doncaster in our drive to reopen Sheffield Airport (DSA) the airport given its in Spring 2026. South strategic importance Yorkshire Mayoral to Doncaster, South Combined Authority Yorkshire and the North. I (SYMCA) has also would like to thank South matched that figure. Yorkshire leaders for their The cabinet heard in continued support of our a report the progress airport with their further made to date on the funding approval. programme to reopen the “The residents and site which closed in 2022. businesses of Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones said: are behind us, proven “Re-opening our airport is by the over 130,000
people who signed a petition. This is the people’s airport and I will do all I can to ensure it drives forward economic success, new jobs, growth and prosperity.” The council’s £10m funding proposal is one off funding from the priorities revenue budget, coupled with £10m proposed by SYMCA for revenue costs which was approved yesterday. (February 11). The council funding would help support work to secure the airport’s suspended airspace and essential work needed to meet the necessary Civil Aviation Authority’s certification standards. The SYMCA funding in the form of a grant will
Airport gets re-opening financial boost support costs associated with managing the site. The cabinet report also sets out the arrangements and scope of FlyDoncaster Ltd, a wholly-owned council company, initiated last year to operate the airport alongside strategic partners Munich Airport International GmbH (MAI) which will provide operational and management services and FP Airports Ltd, aviation sector specialists in the UK. CDC submitted an outline business case on the financial and economic benefits of reopening the airport which was approved by SYMCA last February. A Full Business Case (FBC) has been
submitted which is due for determination in the summer. The FBC highlights the scale of economic growth potential should the opportunity be realised: over 5,000 gross direct jobs by 2050; GVA uplift of £5bn (cumulatively by 2050); gross welfare benefits (cumulatively by 2050) of £2bn; a project benefit cost ratio of 9:1; and a region in the vanguard of the next technological revolution, building on core regional capabilities, and reconnected by air to global markets. The Cabinet report can be viewed on the council website.
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