SOUTH YORKSHIRE'S MAYOR RESPONDS TO LATEST UPDATE ON DSA AIRSPACE

Published 12 May 2025 at 5:01pm

South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has responded to the latest update on Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s airspace. 

More information can be found on the CAA’s website - Airspace change proposal public view

South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard said: “Today the Secretary of State for Transport has taken the decision not to call-in the CAA’s decision to restore Doncaster Sheffield Airport’s airspace. That decision paves the way for the CAA to make a decision more quickly than if the Secretary of State were to further delay that decision. We now expect the CAA to quickly lay out their approach. 

“Whatever that decision - either to restore or reshape our airspace - in conversations with the CAA and the Department for Transport over recent weeks, we have been assured repeatedly that decisions about the airspace will not delay our plans for DSA. So this is another step forward. 

“Later this year we will take a final decision about the funding for the airport and the wider Gateway East project. The work to fully understand the commercial, financial and wider infrastructure needs of the whole project is moving forward at pace and I have no reason to believe we will not take a positive decision this summer.”