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Representation by Gerald Spencer

Date submitted
1 October 2018
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

I am against the proposed cargo hub for the following reasons:

  1. It will ruin the quality of life for local residents under the flight path
  2. In depth analyses by the local authority have reported a non viable position
  3. The airport has operated previously several times as a bad neighbour before failure
  4. The site is desperately needed for housing and lorry parking
  5. This is the wrong place - all the freight will need to pass London and congest (even more) the M25 and Thames crossing
  6. The developer is an American outfit apparently interested purely in short term profits for investors, and will likely walk away when the grants etc. run out.