Representation by Stephen Bruce Carey
- Date submitted
- 3 October 2018
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This airport started as an RAF fighter station to meet the nation's war needs during WW2 and the land was compulsorily acquired by War legislation at that time. It continued to be used as a military establishment until around 2000 and the residents of the locale seemed to accept its existence as such in the interests of our National survival. Since then, the airport has been used for cargo and passenger services variously during the day only (except for emergencies). It seems to me to be totally wrong and an imposition on all the people living around there for the use of this facility to be changed from military use at all, at any level, particularly when there are a great many sites in the UK, even close to this one in Kent, where the flight corridors (where there is low level flying to land and take off) with very low population densities and where operations would effect very few. This is happening, effectively, by default and it is unreasonable to expect a population to accept a 24 (or any) hour cargo hub in the same way as it accepted a military airbase to meet the needs of fighting the Luftwaffe! Since the year 2000, where I live, the planes fly so low they the noise makes it impossible to hear anything else at all, these are old established communities that need nurturing, not destroying.