Plans submitted by Manchester Airport to build an 800-space car park look set to go ahead as the decision goes to councillors next week.
A recommendation to approve was given this week ahead of Cheshire East Council’s planning meeting next Wednesday.
It comes after the committee deferred the airport’s application for a new car park in Moss Lane in Styal - situated on the Green Belt - last month, in order for airport bosses to further prove the car park was needed.
The airport plans would see the demolition of 48 and 52 Moss Lane and their outbuildings and an extension built to an existing car park, with a landscaping belt, footpath and ecological mitigation, the airport said.
If approved, the car park would operate 24 hours a day for customers to self-park and board buses to access the airport terminals.
The documents said the applicant had submitted an additional statement and accompanying plan to further demonstrate the need for the car park.
Airport bosses claimed its “surface access strategy” would help it reach targets, such as reducing kiss and fly and taxi use from 54 per cent in 2015, when the airport handled 23m passengers, to 30 per cent by the time it reaches 45m passengers.
It also said the plans, in accordance with the government's updated aviation policy in June 2018, supports the growth of Manchester - among other UK airports - up to the capacity of its existing runways, subject to environmental impacts.
Airport bosses said this overall growth should include the expansion of facilities and activities which "underpin" the airport’s core operation.
The document concluded that the development of the airport is considered to be of “regional and national significance”, and the provision of the car park is considered to be justified.
It said: “It is considered that the proposed extension to the Jet Parks 3 car park is necessary for the operational efficiency and amenity of the airport, and there are no alternative options, and a recommendation of approval is therefore made.”
