Saturday
Jan282012
Number one fan
what is wrong with flights from manston , i say good they should be allowed and who is this phil rose any way he gets on my tits . LET THERE BE NIGHT FLIGHTS FROM MANSTON . think of all the jobs it will create ,sod all the missable old tarts that will complain about the noise what noise i live on the flight path and i doesnt bother me and my family
David L.
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Personally, I would like to see the cyle of deprivation and poverty in Thanet broken once and for all. For this to happen we need high quality, high paid jobs to which our youngsters can aspire. This won't happen if we sacrifice the area to unremitting noise and the stench of kerosene. The companies which can offer skilled, 21st Century jobs will simply go to the bustling business parks which are found in more enlightened boroughs.
For years Thanet's future has been dictated by people who's view of economic development revolved around one port or another and building flats. I would venture the view that their approach has failed, and that it is time for a new agenda centred around the notion that this is a great place to live and work if you have a family. We have good transport links to the rest of Kent. What we actually need are more good schools, better amenities, less crime and the confidence that some illiterate fool will not dump night-flights on us.
The image of a bustling passenger airport staffed by thousands of happy locals is never going to matierialise, and I say this based on past experience (having lost money booking a flight with the last 'saviour' airline) and from the rapid demise of Flybe: a reputable cut price airline who would without doubt have stayed the course if it could see any evidence of passenger demand.
Instead we'll get dodgy cargo planes that no-one else wants: planes that can be managed with minimal staffing levels. The gradual process - kicked off by recently improved rail links - of people wanting to invest and live in Thanet because of the lifestyle choices it offers will be nipped in the bud and people like David L and his family will find themselves in an even more hopeless situation.
Manston Airport with the assistance of the MoD has been using planning loopholes to further the cause of a civilian airport at Manston for two decades.
TDC needs a sound argument in planning law to bring this situation to a head and the night flight issue provides that opportunity. The most important issue at the moment for the airport lobby is to provide a clear message to the consultation process that this situation is overdue for resolution.
http://in2thanet.blogspot.com/2012/01/night-flight-consultation-response.html
My immediate concern is that TDC seem convinced that they cannot call this in for planning scrutiny, which in my opinion is not correct.
Do you have a better plan?
There will be no extra jobs, there will be noise at night resulting in health problems and learning problems for our children. All of these night flights will be cargo flights, while the rest of the poplulation seems to equate night flights with charter holiday flights... this is not the case.
The most important message to get out is that night flights do not mean cheap charter holiday flights, but rather unsafe, dirty old cargo planes that import stuff that could be grown by our local farmers, supporting British farmers.
Back into your nice dark and quite room, you vacuous and odious creature!
Superb and incisive, now lets hope TDC is decisive.
Then we are in perfect agreement, except I have not taken it past first base. The first objective must be to convince TDC that a planning application for night flights IS necessary and the best way to do that is to illustrate it using planning legislation through the consultation process.
People in general and councillors in particular should realize that requesting a planning application for night flights is neither “pro” nor “anti” the airport, it is just requesting “due process” which we would all have to follow if we wanted to expand a business in Thanet.
http://www.thanet.gov.uk/news/latest_press_releases/new_approach_to_airport_consul.aspx
From this it appears that a planning application may still be considered necessary by TDC, and extremely poor writing and communication lies at the root of the (understandable) impression that a decision had been made that the introduction of night flights would not constitute a change or intensification of use.
Igloo and Readit have the day - have you conveyed your elegant solutions to our elected representatives yet? While you're at it, how about a couple of letters to the local rags who have given so much front page coverage to Charles Manston's blatant attempts to interfere with the democratic process this week?