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Representation by Michael Poulter

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

Manston Airport is urgently needed to provide additional runway space for Kent and indeed the United Kingdom. The runway is two miles long and extremely wide and is within an hour of London via substantial roads. This area is badly in need of employment opportunities but it certainly does not need mass housing, feeding roads into Thanet, which are over capacity at all times at all hours. Thanet is an Island, namely surrounded on three sides and the roads I refer too are the approaches from the South and East