{"id":563662,"date":"2025-11-11T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:40:18","slug":"birmingham-airport-appoints-arup-to-develop-new-masterplan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563662\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport appoints Arup to develop new masterplan | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham Airport has appointed Arup to lead the development of its new masterplan, setting out a long-term vision for the airport\u2019s growth and transformation through to 2041.<\/p>\n<p>Having returned to pre-pandemic passenger volumes, the airport has announced a \u00a3300m investment over the next four years to modernise its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The masterplan will outline how the airport, which currently serves 14 million passenger a year, will evolve to serve an increasing number of passengers and airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2017998_brum_339754.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ian Taylor, development and construction director at the airport, said: \u201cBirmingham Airport is set to grow steadily in the coming years, and we need to ensure it is fit for the future, both in the terminal and on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about ensuring the airport can accommodate future capacity efficiently and sustainably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A draft masterplan is expected to be unveiled for public consultation next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, Australian investor Macquarie Asset Management said it would be buying a 26.5% stake in the airport which it completed earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport has appointed Arup to lead the development of its new masterplan, setting out a long-term vision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115531351966839750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}