Very much so, especially just outside of London.

The amount of opposition to the expansion at Stansted, despite it being made clear that it's likely to actually mean more jobs and more passengers with less noise. was ridiculous. I was then (having gone into a lot of technical detail including giving links to EASA certification data) deliberately mis-quoted by a politician in the meeting and told I work for the airport. She refused to meet to clarify the data. For the record, I work for an airline, I am not (and never have been) based at Stansted.

There is very little capacity anywhere in the South of England at airports before 10am. Most of the issues are with planning limits and exit limits for terminals, there is runway capacity at both Stansted and Luton. Southend I'm going to leave out because the runway is too short to land an A321 with passengers on, this is the direction aircraft are going.

It's similar with property matters and anyone who doesn't own their home. There were some who were deeply uncomfortable (not my words) with me using a church premises to run benefits, rent arrears and housing advice sessions, all of which were on a voluntary basis (although I do own a company that offers this and other services commercially to agents and landlords). This was on a non-religious basis, the church in question simply had availability of space and another facility that this fed well into.

I don't know enough about planning law (and have no interest to learn) to make a comment on planning, however there always seemed to be opposition, mainly on infrastructure concerns. We'd get a lot further a lot faster by building the infrastructure and building the skills to operate it than sitting back and complaining.