Representation by Kelvin Hailey
- Date submitted
- 18 September 2018
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I wish to put forward my views on Manston Airport. Not only would Manston Airport provide much needed jobs for the local community it would also provide another form of transport for those working outside the area, those that need to travel across country and abroad. In terms of vacation travel I believe Manston Airport could provide a perfect alternative to London's busy and overstretched airports. Local people have fought long and hard to keep the airport hope alive and local people would support the airport by taking flights from here. Visitors would have a great chance to explore Thanet but it would also provide a great alternative to the big airport's as a gateway to the South East. Having previously lived in the flight path (when flights were running) I cannot accept the view that the airport would cause unacceptable levels of noise pollution. Houses are often well insulated and double glazed to greatly reduce any supposed inconvience in this respect. Do not buy a house near an airport if you do not want to hear planes. Thanet has no infrastructure to accommodate more houses and people. The streets are dirty, bins have been removed from almost every road. Congestion is dreadful and the roads are littered with potholes. An airport would provide a much needed new lease of life to Thanet, more visitors would mean a short influx of people but those people as tourists would spend money, money that our shops need. It would also provide jobs and career opportunities to residents that are currently extremely limited. We need jobs for local people, a new exciting prospect for young people and a great chance to provided a serious alternative to London airport's. Manston is rich with history and to destroy it's status by not allowing it to remain as an airport would be catastrophic. Please make Thanet somewhere are children want to stay rather than a place they can't wait to leave, a place where a career in aviation could excite them rather than a place they have to fight tooth and nail to get a basic job with no career prospects. To lose the airport completely would be a travesty from which there would be no way back, please listen to the people of Thanet and uphold our wish to reopen Manston Airport for aviation.