Here is the link to my post from two years ago http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/you-dont-have-to-be-mad-but-someone-has.html
and my feelings are pretty much the same as they were then.
These pretty much summarise as:- What is and has been most
damaging to the local economy wasn’t the airport, which since commercial
flights started from there in the mid 1960s had very little effect on the local
economy, but uncertainty over what the airport could become.
I am particularly annoyed by the local politicians waving
the flag for saving the airport while actually promoting the building of an
airfreight hub at Manston that we wouldn’t be able to fly from.
As far as I can see the political wing of the, build an
airfreight hub under the save the airport guise, DIG has pretty much collapsed
with the integrity of their leader, who wore medals and made claims about
military service which now appear to be false, see https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/internet-fibbers-and-friends/
Interesting article from Mike Pearce in The Gazette about
this issue http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Mike-Pearce-20-plenty/story-28943042-detail/story.html
Now at the moment I would say that the odds on favourite
when predicting the future of the Manston Airport site is that the owners plans
to turn it into a mixed use industrial and residential development will happen
in some shape or form, here is the link to their website http://www.stonehillpark.co.uk/
But our local politicians have failed to engage with the
owners or with the electorate on this one, no council run public consultation
on the future of the site and many of our councillors failing to engage with
the owners over planning issues there. This effectively means the council turn
down legitimate pans instead of setting conditions beneficial to Thanet residents
and then as the planning rejections were unreasonable the planning inspectorate
pass all of the plans without conditions.
Loads more books went out on the shelves in the bookshop today, so if you are a local reader here is the link http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/loads-more-books-go-out-on-shelves-in.html
How about this for street creditability while bookshopping
Easier when you get the books into the car
Loads more books went out on the shelves in the bookshop today, so if you are a local reader here is the link http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/loads-more-books-go-out-on-shelves-in.html
How about this for street creditability while bookshopping
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ReplyDeleteAbout Manston Airport: presumably you have heard about River Oak's pursuit of a DCO yet you neglect to mention it. I find that curious. I should be grateful for your thoughts on this subject.
ReplyDeleteWell John if you click on the link that says Manston Airport just above the comments and below the post you will see I have been, but as there hasn’t been any new information since the 27th February when The DOT published the account of their first meeting with RiverOak there isn’t much new to say.
ReplyDeleteI did use the comment form on the RiverOak news post, but as no comments have appeared there and I doubt I was the only person to comment, I can only conclude that RiverOak have decided not to engage with the public at this time.
Fair enough, Michael, but none the less the DCO is extant and it should be mentioned when you tell us of your plans for Manston Airport.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a thought John, my plan for Manston, being in business and if I had any say in the matter, it would be stability and continuity. While Manston as a major aviation facility lurks in the background as a possibility, we get many of the disadvantages of thousands of flights a year, with none of the advantages in terms of money into the local economy. It doesn’t do an area good to have the threat of a major increase in air pollution with the associated reduction in life expectancy and the threat of a major increase in noise pollution hanging over it for years.
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