Airport planning

While the Scottish Government’s additional £10 million loan funding for Prestwick Airport (your report, 20 October) is welcome news, drip feeding money is not the answer to the business challenges faced here.

As a first step, the government should create a public/private sector overseeing board to vitalise the regeneration and development not just of the airport operations and critical national infrastructure located there, but also incorporating the surrounding business parks and enterprise park development and opportunities which might exist in a spaceport and to bolster tourism.

As a second step, the government should attack the public perception that Prestwick Airport is an out-of-the-way place which is stagnating.

It could do well to seek advice from international experts with successful experience of carrying out similar transformations to improve this perception.

We have found out since the regeneration conference in early September that a number of international businesses are interested in helping to revive Prestwick in the long term, but need to see energy, vision and above all a cohesive approach to business expansion. Then they will invest and participate.

Malcolm Warr OBE

SKEO Solutions

Allanvale Road

Prestwick