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Representation by The Hall family

Date submitted
10 September 2018
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

We wish to register an interest as set out in Advice Note 8.5, paragraph 6, "Participating at Hearings". We are happy to accept the inspectorate's methodology, but wish to contribute to the later public hearing discussions.

  • We support the Stone Hill Park proposal of mixed housing, business, and heritage as appropriate to Thanet.
  • There have been no regular daily fights from Manston since the USAF left around 1960. Previous attempts at passenger, freight, and avionics businesses have all failed.
  • Should River Oak succeed despite precedent, at the level of activity they state, there will be 24 hour noise and exhaust pollution from both air and land, about which River Oak have been rather coy.
  • Manston is at the E end of a peninsula, and thus adds road transport fossil fuel use/pollution c.f. central UK sites, and thus government transport and environment policy.
  • Existing requirement for 4000 houses will remain; River Oak state that the freight terminal will pull in other business and 15000 more jobs, which would require at least 7500 additional new homes (with services), some 11,500 in all, increasing existing traffic congestion and making Thanet completely urban, which is not a public good.