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Representation by Michael Wheatley-Ward

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

In my youth I lived near Heathrow Airport and saw it grow to a major employer in the West of London. I moved to Ramsgate 24 years ago and have seen the area decline despite positive moves to counter same by the authorities after the airport was in my view deliberately closed. As the RAF will not loose the strategic runway for troublesome flights it makes sense to me to allow the site back into some form of an airport with its concomitant facilities to bring new jobs and prosperity to the area. Airports cover a large amount of land and once built on they will not be replaced.