With the Manston Airport site, the position is a bit
difficult to follow if you don’t know the background, but roughly speaking the
main plan on the table is the one the site owners have. Thousands of homes and jobs,
heritage aviation including runway, schools, doctor’s surgery and lots of
leisure facilities.
It seems likely that the site’s owners would deliver as they
did with Sandwich Discovery Park. Here is the link to their website http://www.stonehillpark.co.uk/
There is also a secondary plan fronted by an investment agency
called RiverOak and they want to build an airfreight hub on the site. Obviously
they don’t own the site and the site owners don’t want to sell it and having
tried various ways of getting hold of the site are trying for a DCO Development
Consent Order, which would mean the government forcing the current owners to
sell the site to RiverOak.
Anyway for those following this saga the government have just
published some more documents including this one, the appendix at the end seems
to show why the DCO has been delayed again. Here is the link to it https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-Advice-00107-1-171102%20Draft%20documents%20feedback%20meeting%20binder.pdf
Should you want to read the other recent documents here is
the link https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport/?ipcsection=advice
With all of the Manston DCO stuff, it’s long and complicated
reading, which I will do in the fulness of time and try to write something as a
result. In a general sense though, at the moment it still looks like the pollution
from the fuel burn a viable airfreight hub would generate would kill too many
local people and the noise compensation would be too expensive.
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