Airport pitched for Campbell Heights<\/p>\n
Published 11:30 am Thursday, March 19, 2026<\/p>\n
British Columbia\u2019s Transportation and Transit Minister Mike Farnworth discussed lobbying the federal government for an airport to be built in South Surrey\u2019s Campbell Heights.<\/p>\n
Scott Wheatley, executive director of the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce, raised the subject during a Q&A with the minister March 18 at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, where Farnworth was a guest speaker focusing on transportation and networks and infrastructure for Surrey, White Rock and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n
Wheatley told Farnworth chamber members are asking for a regional airport.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s it going to take \u2013 I just want to be the first one to profit \u2013 what\u2019s it going to take to get a regional airport down in the Campbell Heights area so I can get some movie studios built?\u201d Wheatley asked.<\/p>\n
Farnworth replied that airports are under federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not trying to push it aside but that is the reality,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think it would be a case of the Province working with the federal government to say hey, we think there\u2019s an opportunity here for an airport. I think there\u2019s a number of things that would have to be taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farnworth noted Langley and Pitt Meadows have airports.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the question would be would those be the ones or would you be looking at something brand new? As a provincial minister to advance this I would have to have a better understanding of exactly the location and where, and then the size and things like that, ideally in the Campbell Heights area.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked Wheatley to send him his \u201cidea.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSend it to me, then I am in a position to be able to start to talk with the feds and see if there\u2019s some interest and what it would take to move things further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airport pitched for Campbell Heights Published 11:30 am Thursday, March 19, 2026 British Columbia\u2019s Transportation and Transit Minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-547408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}