15 December 2025
Coventry Airport will close next June, according to the operator of the airport, Rigby Group. The closure will allow the building of a new road through the site, said to be essential to the overall plan of constructing a battery gigafactory.
Businesses based at the airport – 90 years old in 2026 – have been given notice to leave by 9 May.
However, some objectors say the gigafactory still has no investor and is thus unlikely to ever be built.
Stephen Clark of Aerotech Aircraft Maintenance Ltd, based at the airport for 25 years, spoke against the plan at a recent meeting of Warwick District Council. Watch him on video below.
Stephen also wrote on the FLYER Forum, “Now that no investor has come forward (as we predicted), the developer has changed the plan with Reserved Matters that breaks the airfield into 7 smaller plots.
“By wading through the drawings from the architects suggested proposals, I can even see on plot 1 where they have included the pictures of lorries outside the loading bays of the warehouse next to a lorry wash.
“This is hardly the case of the vital huge gigafactory to produce thousands of jobs, justifying the destruction of a UK airport transport asset of excellent opportunity if developed along the lines of a business airport like Oxford.
Coventry Airport. Image: Google Earth
“It was obvious from a question by one of the councillors, who at least showed some interest in the objection that they had no idea that the footprint of the large gigafactory had now been changed to smaller buildings on the plans.
“They are clueless and simply voted through the next stage of the proposal as if the objections from so many of us were non existent.
“Please continue to support us in the fight to show how the loss of Coventry airport is a developer’s strategy to get around Greenbelt protection and a huge loss to UK airport infrastructure.”
The planned battery gigafactory for Coventry Airport
The gigafactory plan, known as Greenpower Park, is a joint venture between Coventry City Council and Rigby Group and received a £23m funding boost from the West Midlands Combined Authority in January 2025.
Warwick District Council is also involved as land in the airport which lies in the Warwick boundary is included in planning permission for the gigafactory.
