Biggin Hill Airport is owned by the people of Bromley. Bromley Council bought it on our behalf to protect us from unwelcome developoment.

In drawing up the lease it restricted certain activities which included flights for fare paying passengers.

The 'vital' introduction of these and the Master Plan' are simply a list of objectives by the leaseholder to increase its profits. For this we, the owners, are to get increased noise and jet fuel haze pollution; increased traffic congestion and, gosh, a free set of traffic lights to help the passengers get in and out of the airport!

BHAL were happy to accept the original lease. If they now find it too restrictive surely the answer is for them to relocate and leave us to let the site to a more environmentally concerned tenant.

Personally I will be writing to my councillors asking them to ensure Bromley residents' needs as owners are put before the private profit of a tenant. I urge everyone else to do the same and make sure they know the view of every candidate in the forthcoming council elections.

By Philip Martin-Lawrence, Orpington