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Representation by Mr Paul Bugg

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

I have lived in Thanet most of my life and Manston airport has always been an important part in our islands history. Thanet has always had big unemployment problems and it is important to create jobs for local people and make use of the resourses that we already have in place, especially when Manston is still one of the largest runways in the uk that can be used for emergency diversion of aircraft with facilities to help deal with a situation( fire fighting training.) Also surrounding facilities such as jet engine repairs etc. We would be very foolish to waste the strategic resources that we have in place.