But I'm not talking about the planes. Its Charles "psst. do you want to buy an airport" Buchanan and his infamous night time flying request.
If you remember all the way back to September last year when Charles/Manston/Infratil submitted a joke of a night time flying application which effectively asked for limitless flights throughout the night from London's 8th Airport, Manston. This was rightly rebuked by our council leaders with the following retort from TDC's illustrious leader Bob Bayford;
“I have met with Charles Buchanan to advise him that, after careful consideration over the last couple of weeks, the proposals that have been submitted have insufficient detail in some areas to be acceptable to the council. We’ve had an initial report through from our consultants, which has confirmed that there are areas of clarification that require further work before local residents are consulted. I believe that, before residents have their say, they need to know more detail and have a full understanding of exactly how many aircraft movements are being discussed. That information is difficult to gauge from the proposals that have been put to us, partly because of its technical nature and this needs further work. I also believe that the proposed upper level of activity is too high and needs to be reconsidered. I am not prepared to start a public consultation until these issues have been resolved. I am pleased to say that the airport has agreed to review these issues.”
Has there been a peep on this request from Manston in the last 10 months? No.
Have there been discussions between the council and Manston owners behind closed doors? what do you think?
Is PR 'King' Charlie going to jump in with some doom and gloom news about the airport scenario to dampen the joy of Discovery Park being named and Enterprise Zone? You betcha!
Having failed to attract the status with Manston attached, Discovery shed the albatross that is Manston and won the bid. Manston failed to attract regional growth funds to pay for staff, a new train station and an flight service to __________. So now it turns its attention to scaring the area into submission.
Rather than submit a new request as asked by Bob, Charlie has decided to tell us how bad things will be if we don't allow night flights.
I think this goes to show how little the airport management and its owners think of the people most effected by their night time flying requests. Rather than come up with a response to the councils request, they have decided to use scare tactics.
Later today, you will see Manston do its best to put the frighteners on us.
Don't be fooled.
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4 comments:
"The airport stays silent........." And so should you, it's probably better that way because in the next six months things are going to get a little noisy around your way. Empty vessels vying with big, shiny full up one's flying over your head adds up to loads of noise - bring it on!
We need night flights! What is wrong with some people?
We need dickheads like the previous two posters to walk through some minefields in Afghanistan. It's the only use they can be put to.
"..in the next six months things are going to get a little noisy around your way."
Well, it didn't get noisy did it? In fact, it got quieter and quieter until Flybe threw in the towel. So the poster who told us it was going to get noisy didn't know what he was talking about. He was just another internet troll. This is the major problem we have and have always had with Manston. The people supporting the airport are just trolls who have no knowledge, and base all of their postings and utterances on blind optimism; optimism which has been dashed time and time again over the last ten years. When oh when will people wake up to the fact that this airport isn't going anywhere? Relying on the airport to create jobs has cost this area dearly in economic terms. Virtually any other use for the airport site would have generated more jobs.
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