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Representation by Charlie Small

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

The reopening of Manston Airport will provide much needed employment in the Thanet area, any additional housing will only increase the unemployment numbers. I lived in the Medway Towns area of Kent from 1974 to 2015 and over that time I watched the Medway Towns turn into yet another suburb of London, along with all the inherent problems that outcome would hold. I moved to the Thanet area to take myself, and my family, out of that environment. Surely with the uncertain security situation that prevails across the world at the present, especially between the US of A and Russia, with the Uk I’m the middle, it would be a strategic benefit for us to have a landing base for our aircraft, especially post Brexit.