Stansted submits plans for new arrivals terminal

Stansted Airport is planning a new arrivals terminal. Image: Tupungato/Dreamstime.com

Stansted Airport has revealed plans for a new £130m arrivals terminal.

Plans have been submitted for the new terminal which will see the airport grow from 24 million passengers a year to 35 million by 2030 and see the construction of a 34,000 sq m terminal building.

It is expected the project will take three years once it has received planning approval.

Plans for the terminal include a larger immigration and baggage reclaim area, new retail facilities and a public forecourt for inbound travellers.

The proposed building spans three levels and would be delivered inside the existing footprint of the airport, and located adjacent to the current terminal and the Radisson Blu Hotel. The new building would also enable the current terminal building to be reconfigured and dedicated entirely to departing passengers, creating more space at check-in, security and within the international departures lounge. 

Currently the airport has up to 5,000 departing passengers passing through its doors every hour at peak times.

Stansted Airport chief executive Andrew Cowan said: “The planning application and concept design for the new £130m arrivals building marks the latest phase in Stansted’s transformation and enables us to support further growth over the next decade and give our passengers the facilities that they want.”

In October, Heathrow airport was given the green light for its own expansion and the building of a third runway.