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I believe Manston Airport is a very important part of UK airfields. It could do very well with RO backing to produce a place for workers in Thanet and surrounding areas. That will be permanent and...
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I truly believe the airport would be advantageous to the whole area.We desperately need more jobs especially for the young.It would open the area of Thanet globally both through freight usage and...
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Mrs Jennifer Neiles
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I have e-mailed before. I have once again listened to the arguments for and against the
airport opening up as a cargo hub. I still agree with my original opinion...
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I believe that the reinstatement of Manston Airport is vital for the economic regeneration of Thanet as well as the wider national economy. Manston will never be a big airport, but it will contribute...
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Dear Sir/Madam,
My husband and I have lived in Broadstairs for the past 29 years. We fully support the reopening of Manston Airport for cargo transport and future passenger flights. It should never...
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Manston needs to be maintained as an airport.
As a family we previously used Manston to travel and can see how it can become a significant alternative to using more London-centric...
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It is acknowledged that sleep deprivation is a form of torture.
The average adult needs between 7 and 9 hours sleep every night, to function at their best. Children and teenagers need more.
I...
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The airport should remain an airport. Excellent for the country, business and consumer use. Will provide jobs and security for many. Will attract talent, especially medical expert, to move to the...
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I would love to see Manston back as an airport. I feel with the growth of such an enterprise will bring a much needed regeneration of our area. Jobs are so very lacking and I feel this will help my...
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I believe the reopening of Manston Airport as a mainly cargo airport will be good for the area and also benefit the other airports that do not want cargo going through them selves. This runway has...
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I believe this will be the right motivator for the economy of the area. Now with Brexit looming, I feel the need for this as an airport has increased significantly.
Housing although necessary would...
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I would like to submit my support for the Manston Airport DCO.
Given the deprived area status of Thanet, i feel we need good quality jobs and apprenticeships for the young of the area, and, given...
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Object to the DCO on these grounds
I understand that a DCO must be based on evidence of sustainability and national strategic need. Neither of these criteria are true of this application. Here have...
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The opening of Manston airport will be so good for Thanet. Not only creating a great cargo hub to service many areas and taking the pressure off other London airports. Creating much needed employment...
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Manston is a national asset to kent as a hole
And should remain an air port , not just for
Thanet or Kent but for southern england
So air trafic can be freed up at other air ports
In the region...
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Keeping business in Kent
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I completely support this application for Manston Airport.
There is an urgent requirement for runway capacity in the south east, and this can be met by an operational Manston Airport relieving...
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I feel the development of Manston airport into use by aviation is a posative move for Thanet and Kent as a whole. In Thanet unemployment is very high and no real prospects of large scale, well paid...
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I believe Manston is vital post Brexit to the UK and our ability to trade with the world. It would be short sighted to lose an infrastructure asset like Manston.
When you look at the trouble and...
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There is no need for a cargo 'hub', there is already plenty of air freight space available at existing airports. In addition, this proposed airport is too far out of the way and will not be used...
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Re-opening Manston Airport as a freight destination accepting 12000 movements per year will cause great distress to residents of Minster, Manston and Ramsgate due to the noise and airborne pollution...
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My name is Stephen Roberts and I live in Ramsgate with my wife, [Redacted]. Our house would be directly under the flight path, if the DCO for this airport was successful.
There is no necessity to...
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Manston must remain as an Airport.
As a cargo hub, it is perfectly placed and with great road links, I believe that access into the airport will be updated.
It is also viable as a passenger...
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Vattenfall has invested £3Bn in UK energy over the last 8 years and we are keen to continue that investment. ?The opportunity to be part of this project validated our decision to enter the UK market,...
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Heart beating rapidly, confusion and alarm -- these are the symptoms I remember when being woken up by incoming cargo flights in the middle of the night. And I have read many reports, including the...
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1. Thanet especially, but also the wider Kent area desperately need employment opportunities, a successfully run local airport would help to provide jobs both on site and in the wider geographical...
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Our objection to Manston Airport re-opening are the proposed night flights which will be extremely disturbing at any level, as our home is directly under the flight path. There would be increased...
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I wish to write in support of the application on the following basis:-
- the need for extra runway capacity in the UK (particularly southeast England) and the ability of Manston to fulfil that...
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The success of this application is so important, to the locality, the county & the uk, bringing employment, to the people of the area. We in Britain, need to take advantage of this opportunity for...
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To have this Airport in full working order will provide much needed work for the area and also provide a future for the younger generation. The skills that can be obtained over coming years will be...
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We are hearing that more air capacity is needed all the time (Heathrow)
Once this airport has gone and built houses on it, it cannot be put back
Any locals moaning about noise should have thought...
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Manston needs to be kept its one of the biggest runways in the country take any plain.
The current company wishing to take over the airport for cargo hub limited passenger service is the only...
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a. Lack of commercial airport capacity in South East.
b. Congestion within the existing capacity in London and on the roads to reach London.
c. The danger of increasing the number of planes in the...
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[Redacted]. I strongly object to RSPs proposal on the basis of Noise, Safety and Biodiversity.
As a resident of Southwood Gardens for the last 21 years (2.5km to runway) I am concerned that RSPs...
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Full support here for the airport we need it back to create all the jobs it will not thousands more home cars and people jamming the roads of thanet up the flights will not be 24/7 this has already...
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It is my view that the opening of a Cargo Hub airport operating out of a former military airport with a flight path that is directly over towns with many residences and places of business would be the...
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I am supporting the reopening of Manston Airport as a Cargo hub, this will give Thanet a much needed Jobs boost, for an area which is a known Jobs black spot, with the right investment, it will be...
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The issue of Manston Airport has caused the local plan to be intervened by the secretary of state. Thanet council is still waiting on what actions will come from intervention which can include the...
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I am very keen to see the reinstatement of Manston airport, I believe it will bring much needed jobs to our area and entice more business' to relocate here also, I believe existing business will...
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I fully support the plans for the re-development of Manston Airport. It will be very beneficial for the area bringing both income and jobs for the residents and beyond.
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I believe a freight air hub at manston will devastate Ramsgate town. The jobs created by it will be far outnumbered by those lost when the tourist and leisure industry collapses as no one will want to...
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I have lived in Thanet for 29 years and like it here. the airport noise never bothered me and I have flown from Manston twice as had family in Scotland and the north west. It was so much easier for...
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Ramsgate is the only Royal Harbour in the country and in 2021 it celebrates its bicentenary . This is the focus of a major regeneration programme for the town involving Turner Contemporary among other...
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I do not want a cargo hub at Manston because the flight path will be near me and the pollution will cover an even wider area
I am opposed to the re-opening of Manston for use as a cargo freight hub...
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I am in support of a REGIONAL airport for cargo and leisure operations. However, I have concerns that a NATIONAL cargo hub - and Riverside's request for 'flexibility' around night flights - is...
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Regency Ramsgate Ruined?
Ramsgate is a beautiful regency town set around the only royal harbour in the country. We have around 450 Listed sites and in 2017 became one of historic England's first...
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1 Kent County Council's 'Growth Without Gridlock' strategy reasonably identified the Airport as the prime 'regenerator' for East Kent and it is difficult to see how a Local Plan can proceed until this...
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I am totally opposed to the proposal to turn Manston Airfield into a 24 hour cargo hub.
The reasons being:
Noise pollution - corporate anti-social behaviour.
Air pollution from both aircraft and...
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Reopen Manston AIRPORT
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The start of flights both day and night will have a detrimental affect on the health and wellbeing of residents under the flight path. I work in a Specialist school under the flight path and The noise...
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When Manston was operating, we, my wife and I, used it many times , and found it excellent, a handy, easy way to travel.
Also, on a broader scale, why on earth build an expensive, disruptive new...
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Reasons for objecting
1) There is no NSIP case.
RSP’s proposal depends on its claim that there is substantial unmet demand for dedicated freight aircraft in the SE of the UK.
However, their own...
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I am opposed to this application to re-open Manston Airport.
The people of Thanet do not need the noise and pollution living under an airport flight path. I do not want my children exposed to this...
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Dear Sir
As a resident living on the Nethercourt estate I am extremely concerned as to the impact the proposed cargo airport will have on me and the people of Ramsgate. Having lived through the...
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to object to the River Oak application for a freight airport at Manston because of the potentially disastrous impact it would have on the local area. In Herne Bay, we are on...
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Both Gatwick and Heathrow are operating clues to maximum capacity. The road network to both is offen extremely congested leading to missed flights. Manston has a superb runway capable of...
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I would love the airport to be in use again as, apart from the generated employment, I think that the convenience of being able to take a flight with ease, and not have a 2 hour commute to London...
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I would like to see Manston Airport reopen as soon as possible, for the good of the Country, the good of Thanet and employment. The history of Manston is long and memorable and in my opinion is...
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I wish to see Manston Airport reopen as a fully operational airport, not for the land to be used for house building. We already have problems with lack of water supplies and serious
road traffic...
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I want Manstin Airport to re-open to bebrfit the free RAF Manston Spitfire and Hurricane Museum with extra visitors. We eant to stay a free museumandwe need extra footfall donations.
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The history of air freight operations at Manston is one of failure: failure to attract freight operators, resulting in economic failure and the loss of large sums of money. It is time to put...
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I fully support Riveroaks Plans for Manston Airport. Thanet and Kent is in desperate need of the jobs that will be generated by re-opening Manston Airport. It will help to regenerate
the area and...
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I would like to see the airport open for jobs and save going to London to get to a airport for travel.
manston has allways been a airport
long runway
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I have flown to Cyprus from Manston & the experience was fantastic. The improved infrastructer is relatively good. Not only the environmental footprint but also time saved by not having to travel to...
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Thanet,and surrounding areas NEED EMPLOYMENT and TRAINING OPERTUNITIES
Exiting EU open opportunity to create an additional transport/aviation links to UK
Lead times to create and establish...
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Mansion Airfield/Airport has existed for over 70 years in various formats. The Airport is far to valuable an asset to be lost for ever as a strategic aviation centre. The current owners & proposed...
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I confirm ii have read the above statement.......I strongly believe that MANSTON AIRPORT
should be retained for aircraft use...
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I have friends and family involved in aviation and have attended or worked at Aerodrome, Airfield and Airport events throughout England for over 30 years. I am aware of the shortage of training...
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Pollution
As I live in Thanet and am only 1.3km from the runway I am worried about :
1. The Pollution.
In Thanet is already high so the addition of further pollution from freight aircraft, old...
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Manston has been an airport longer than i care to remember as I was born in Thanet. Never been any bother. It has created employment, accessibility to other parts of europe and the UK.
Thanet is...
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I would like to object because I believe Grade 1 Agricultural land should not be used for housing when we have a redundant airfield site ideally situated in the centre of Thanet. The Manston...
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I think it will be of benefit to local people to have Manston Airport as a functioning airport. Having used it in the past, it would be very helpful to have the availability to fly from Manston in...
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Due to chronic health conditions, noisy night flights will be severely detrimental to my health. As such I would like to oppose the plans to reopen Manston, especially for night flights.
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New resident (3 years) committed to town, financially, and it is now my home.
Civic matters of great interest to me. Manston plans of crucial importance to the area.
Riveroak prsentations in 2017...
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I believe that the retention of Manston Airport will provide jobs, both directly and indirectly which will be of benefit to the local economy. My firm has previously supplied goods to the airport...
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Infrastructure
Since 1998, when Manston became a commercial airport, 3 owners have failed to make the airport profitable.
The new proposal moves from mainly passenger flights to freight flights...
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Please let us have Manston airport back - hate the hassle of driving to Gatwick/Heathrow/Stansted - just such a pain and always takes hours.
Plus good for the area to help people get jobs, so yes yes...
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1/ I am in favor of the airport development as it would be a massive improvement to the local economy.
2/ Thanet needs regeneration the Airport could bring with it's already in place...
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I am a resident of Ramsgate, living under the flight path, less than 3 Km from the end of the runway.
I have the following concerns about the proposals set out in the DCO documents.
1 That the...
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Noise and safety of surrounding areas
I was living here when the 'airport' was operational for cargo service and the flow of what looked like old, noisy and dangerous aircraft constantly threatening...
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I believe that a resurgent airport will have a detrimental effect on the local economy. I am a local businessman who sells home furnishings in the Thanet area. As such I have experienced an upturn in...
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I am looking forward to Manston Airport re-opening, not only to provide some passenger services to the local community, but also for the potential employment opportunities.
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I am a former resident of Ramsgate and maintain an interest in the regeneration of Thanet and it's future development. I wrote the original white paper on options for the airport site that was used as...
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I am so cross that this is still an. Issue. Since I have lived in ramsgate, the airport has been a constant source of bewilderedment to me. Enabling night flights, and cargo in general will add...
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Keep Manston Airport open.
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The most frequently used flight path for aircraft landing at and taking off from Manston Airport passes at a very low level over the central area of Ramsgate. During past use of the airport this...
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As a long term resident of Thanet I have experience of the local situation both current and historic.
We need projects that encourage commerce in the overcrowded, well resourced and prosperous area...
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As a resident who lives directly under the proposed flight path I strongly am against the application of a cargo hub being opened on the mansion sight. I argue that this proposal will have deep...
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we all need this airport as soon as possible . people and freight .
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I am local to the Airport, and feel not only is it a waste at the moment, it is also very sad. The history that goes with the airport will be kept alive when the airport reopens. It will also provide...
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Please don’t let this happen, we in Thanet are not just an Isle of old and socially low class people, but even if we were, are our lives any less valuable?
I was born in Ramsgate Hospital and grew...
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I have checked the site location plan against the information held by the Coal Authority and confirm that the proposed development site is located outside the defined coalfield. On this basis we have...
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I moved to Ramsgate from Walthamstow, East London in March 2017. My reason for moving was for a better quality of life. A more peaceful and quieter life away from the noise and pollution of London. In...
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Reasons why Kent International Airport (AKA Manston Airport') should be reopened.
1. On a purely practical level, it would take the pressure off Heathrow and ease the growing congestion in...
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I am catergorically against the DCO for several reasons:
- The Airport has never been financially viable, due to location.
- if the airport reopens it will mean mass housing developments in the area...
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WE NEED EXTRA AIRPORT CAPACITY AS HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED. AT MANSTON, WE HAVE A PERFECT SITE WITHIN RELATIVELY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE CAPITAL.
THE AREA WOULD BENEFIT HUGELY FROM THE JOBS THAT WOULD...
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I wanted to ask the question re the proposed development of Manston Airport to a Cargo Hub. Will the flights pass over the Studd Hill area of Herne Bay again as they did under the previous...
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Good day, I have been a resident of Westgate for 30 years and have been following the progress of Riveroaks' bit very closely. and am strongly in favour of re-opening the airport. I used the services...
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As residents of Ramsgate who live under the flightpath, close to the end of the runway of Manston Airport, we are well aware of the significant noise disruption and nuisance large aircraft cause...
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I agree that RiverOak are give planning to reopen Manston Airport for Aviation