The list below includes a record of advice we have provided for this project.
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I really do not understand why Manston airport might open again. It is a failing Airport and will ruin Tourism in Ramsgate. I have an estate agent coming around today to look at selling my business...
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I have just read a very troubling article regarding RSP’s latest application for night flights from Manston.
The suggestion that Ramsgate should even consider accepting a proposal to include any...
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Will local business get compensated for having to relocate?
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We have copied you into this email we have sent to RSP because of concerns we have over notification of & access to documentation regarding their latest public consultation. We wanted you to be aware...
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I am writing as someone whose home is on the flightpath for Manston Airport.
I have just been told by a friend that there will be a consultation on this on January 23 (tomorrow). However, I had no...
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I’m writing as a resident of Ramsgate who’s recently received an email from a company currently calling itself ‘RSP’ informing me that they are planning yet another inadequate round of consultations...
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It has come to my attention via a friend that RSP are doing another consultation with regards to Manston Airport.
I have not had notification to my address. If you look on a map you will see that...
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The enquirer sent his response to the Applicant's 2018 statutory consultation to the Planning Inspectorate.
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I'm writing to complain about the most recent consultation by RiverOak Strategic Partners.
Firstly, as a resident directly under the Manston flight path I have received no notification from them...
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I understand that, according to the DCO process, RSP should have prepared a Consultation Report to PINS outlining how it took into account the feedback responses from its public consultations held in...
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I write to oppose RSPs proposed DCO of Manston Airport Land
After deceiving myself, residents and yourself, for many months, and at previous unsatisfactory "consultations", RSP Have now come clean...
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I am writing to voice my utter disgust at the Riveroak proposition. PLEASE DO NOT LET IT GO AHEAD!!!!!!
I am concerned that overall the proposal would have a seriously detrimental to the town and...
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I am wondering if a past potential investor should make a submission to you when and if River Oak actually make the application to try to acquire Manston.
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I have just revisited this application to check for any progress. Please excuse this email being a bit muddled and fragmentary but I am short of time at the moment and fitting writing it in between...
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I should be grateful for any advice you may be able to offer regarding what impact HMG would expect last year's EIA regulations to have upon the developer's forthcoming public consultation. What does...
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I should be grateful for any advice you may be able to offer regarding what impact HMG would expect last year's EIA regulations to have upon the developer's forthcoming public consultation. What does...
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You say that the onus is on applicants to get their applications right before they are submitted. How are they supposed to do this if the feedback they need is not given until later? For example,...
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Thank you for your prompt response to my queries about RSP's forthcoming consultation exercise. Needless to say, your response is very unsatisfactory.
It may well be true that you are ticking all...
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I see that RSP did not submit their application for a DCO before the end of December 2017, as had been advertised on the Planning Inspectorate's website. I see that they now plan to engage in another...
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I have written to you before with the argument that since Kent Health Protection Agency in 2009 said epidemiology inquiry is needed to investigate long term health impact of chemical contamination of...
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I note that the notes of the meeting held on 2nd November 2017 have been published by the Planning Inspectorate. However, when considering the comments made in the Annex to the meeting note, it is...
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The Ramsgate Society of which I am a member of the Executive Committee understands you have recently published an interim report on the RSP DCO application.
I have been unable to trace such a...
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The note [of the telecom between the Planning Inspectorate and the Applicant on 22 November 2017] suggests that the primary reason for the third consultation is to conform to the 2017 Environmental...
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We are instructed by the Kent County Council (the “KCC”). KCC has been approached by developers in connection with the proposed redevelopment of Manston Airport (formerly RAF Manston) situated near...
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In the notes of the meeting held on the 26th September between RiverOak Strategic Partners and the Planning Inspectorate it states that :
"It was agreed that draft versions of certain documents...
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In the name of honesty and of transparency, can PINS please shed some light on the facts behind the applicant’s news release, which appeared in my in box earlier today?
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Project update meeting (teleconference).
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I would like to know whether the decision to go ahead with a Development Consent Order is based on what is theoretically possible or what is actually being proposed. I am asking this question because...
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Draft application documents feedback meeting.
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Note of meeting between the Planning Inspectorate and Stone Hill Park Ltd (the Manston Airport landowner) to request advice in accordance with section 51 of the Planning Act 2008 about matters...
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Project Update Meeting.
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Save Manston Airport association (SMAa) note :
“The Inspectorate confirmed that it had received a large volume of correspondence which raised concerns relating to the statutory consultation events...
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Many thanks for the update, I fully understand that a large volume of enquiries would be an issue as the airfreight hub would have a considerable impact on several thousand people.
A problem is, that...
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Project Update Meeting
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I would be most grateful if you could please add Kent Wildlife Trust to your list of consultees for Manston Airport. I attach our recent letter to RiverOak for your information.
I would also like...
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It is hoped that considerable thought is given to the development of a cargo hub airport on the current brown field site, previously the war time airport for Manston. If allowed, such a development...
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Having just completed a thorough reading of all plans put forward by RiverOak for the development of Manston Airport I have the following observations to make:
1) Unless some massive seismic...
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I am emailing you, because to my horror, I have just found out that Riveroak stategic partners has and have constructed a consultation document on the reopening of Manston Airport. I have heard it is...
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• "Your proposals will ruin this area and I object to your proposal”
• “I strongly object to the noise pollution, air pollution and road congestion that your project will bring to this area”
• “No...
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I am contacting you to express our complete disapproval of the plans to reopen Manston Airport.
We, like most of Ramsgate, live on the flight path of aircraft landing at Manston airport from the...
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I am writing to you in relation to your proposed DCO of the land presently owned by Stone Hill Park (previously Manston Airport), which aims to establish a Cargo Hub and smaller passenger service with...
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Further to my earlier e-mail, I am contacting you in respect to the American Hedge Fund company, Riveroak, who are trying to force the owners of the old Manston airport about 2 miles away from the...
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I have not been informed of any official consultation into running the site at Manston as an airport. And yet I have found out that there is such a consultation.
I live in the village of Herne and...
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I am writing to let you know that I am most unhappy regarding the resent Consultations regarding the re-opening of the former Manston Airport - I strongly object on the grounds of noise and /or air...
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Do PINS hold a breakdown of approximate required compensation amounts and is this in the public domain?
At what point in the DCO application does the applicant have to show pins evidence of...
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Mr Owen expressed a number of concerns in respect of the Applicant's Pre-application community consultation and stated his objection to the Proposed Development.
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The enquirer expressed concern about the Applicant's Pre-application community consultation. The Applicant had provided contradictory information about the potential for night flights.
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I am a resident of Broadstairs, within the area of Thanet District Council (TDC). I have today learnt that TDC have restricted the consultation with RiverOak to a closed meeting with the Cabinet. The...
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Would an individual homeowner or business proprietor have to claim compensation within specific time scales related to the progress of the DCO application?
Are there other instances of busy...
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I am writing in response to RSP’s recent Consultation event held in Ramsgate
I was dismayed that people in Ramsgate were not contacted by RSP informing them of the consultation taking despite...
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I recently attended the RSP’S consultation in Ramsgate, and am now asking you, if it could be re-held. And this time in a more professional manner.
I was expecting a presentation, and then an...
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I have several specific concerns about the hopelessly inadequate consultation process conducted by the RSP company in relation to their attempt to submit a DCO for the site of the former airport at...
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It is being reported on social media that RiverOak Strategic Partners' DCO for the site of the former airport at Manston is guaranteed to succeed because it is being backed by a local MP. Can you...
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RSP who wish to reopen Manston airport have published a glossy 48 page brochure laying out all their plans for the future development of the site. I believe that RSP have deliberately ignored...
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I have several concerns re the recent presentations / consultations mainly that when approached about particulates none of your so called experts appeared to know what they were nor how dangerous and...
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River Oak Strategic Partnership recently held a consultation in Ramsgate regarding the re-opening of Manston as an airport. The online consultation finishes on 23rd July.
I wish to register a...
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As a long time resident of the town of Ramsgate and having lived under the flight path of the previous commercial airport at Manston I would like to register my objection to any plan to reopen the...
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The enquirer expressed concern about the lack of consultation events offered in Ramsgate about the proposed reopening of Manston Airport.
1. Failure to notify affected residents:
During the time...
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1. RSP have not followed the legislation laid down in the Planning Act 2008 and that because the document fails to identify the flight path and as a consequence which areas will be affected directly...
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The enquirer expressed a number of concerns in respect of RSP's Pre-application community consultation.
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I would like to express my concern regarding the lack of information provided to Ramsgate residents regarding the consultations. It was only by chance that my husband and I became aware of the...
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The enquirer raised concerns about the Applicant's Pre-application community consultation.
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The enquirer, a local councillor, set out a number of concerns in respect of RiverOak Strategic Partner's community consultation.
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As I understand all statutory consultees must be informed by the project leaders about the plans.
In the event the statutory consultees refuses to engage, where does this leave the DCO prospects?
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I am writing with regards to the recent consultations about a potential cargo hub at the former Manston airport, Kent, and my concerns over the consultation process.
I bought my house two years ago...
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I am writing in response to RSP’s recent Consultation event held in Ramsgate.
Firstly, I’m disappointed in the lack of opportunity presented to the 40000 people in Ramsgate to participate in the...
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I'm writing with regard to my grave concerns about the consultation process being conducted by River Oak Strategic Partners, or RSP as part of their plans to develop the former Manston airport.
I...
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Do you advise that I endeavour to complete the consultation trying to use the existing website or to wait and see if I get some reply from the Applicant or Thanet District Council that results in a...
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I am writing after reading the minutes of a meeting which took place between the Planning Inspectorate and RiverOak Strategic Partners (RSP) on the 12th May 2017. The meeting related to a potential...
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Mr Child expressed a number of concerns about the accessibility of consultation documents on RiverOak Strategic Partner's website.
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Mr Kirkaldie expressed concerns in respect of the Planning Inspectorate's handling of three planning appeals at the site of the former Manston Airport in conjunction with RiverOak Strategic Partner's...
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In respect of his experience at a recent consultation event, Mr de Pulford expressed concern that the Applicant "could not answer basic questions about the impact of their development on local...
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What steps will the Planning Inspectorate take to ensure there is a proper and unencumbered consultation?
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Process evaluation presentation by RiverOak Strategic Partners.
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SMAa have compared the final version of the RiverOak SoCC (May 2017) with the earlier draft version (Feb 2017), and noted where some changes have occurred, with particular reference to the responses...
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Can you please explain how RiverOak Strategic Partners Ltd will ensure that, during the formal consultation period, the public's expressed views will be properly recognised, recorded and taken into...
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Project update meeting.
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Can I ask you to ensure that [RiverOak Strategic Partners] RSP make a public statement clarifying that compensation is not dependent on completion of the land referencing survey, as the Save Manston...
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Is “Land referencing [...] a key part of the DCO process and [...] strictly governed by statute and regulation”?
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Can you tell me if the attached questionnaire is pertinent to the DCO process as RiverOak Strategic Partners are claiming they are acting on your behalf?
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Further to our previous correspondence regarding the proposed Manston Airport DCO, I'd like to bring to your attention a letter published in this week's Kent on Sunday.
The letter is written by Dr...
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Please find attached a copy of a letter from No Night Flights to Thanet District Council. The letter is No Night Flights’ comment on a document issued by RSP (RiverOak Strategic Partners). The RSP...
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1. Please can PINS confirm that RiverOak Strategic Partner’s new application [for s53 authorisation] will be treated as an application by an entirely new and separate commercial entity?
2. Please...
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I fully appreciate that, under under s53 of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended) (the PA2008), the Planning Inspectorate will be assessing any application against whether "... (a) the proposed applicant...
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We understand that you have received, or are about to receive, a Section 53 application from a company called RiverOak Strategic Partners (RSP) for access to a privately owned site in the UK belonging...
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Para 5.4 of page 15 of your April 2015 Guidance Note states that the Planning Inspectorate is not responsible for compliance with any Section 53 Authorisations granted by the Secretary of State. As...
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Would the Planning Inspectorate have recommended to the Secretary of State that s53 Authorisation be granted to RiverOak Investment Corporation LLP (ROIC), if it had been aware that ROIC had no...
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I have recently become aware that an amendment, allowing houses to be included in a DCO application, has been made to the Planning Act 2008 via a section contained in the Housing and Planning Act...
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With regards to the s.53 access request, as the applicant was the US RiverOak entity, and 'authorised persons' are defined as the applicant and other person's authorised by the applicant, can you...
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I note from recent correspondence on your website, and documents published by RiverOak, that the US part of RiverOak is apparently no longer connected to the application for a DCO for the former...
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Bircham Dyson Bell, on behalf of the Applicant, invited comments from the Planning Inspectorate about the draft Statement of Community Consultation (dSoCC).
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I see that Michael CHILD has emailed you usefully re a Riveroak consultative document and its status.
I have emailed their solicitor with my precautionary principle concerns a number of times. No...
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RiverOak has recently published a Draft Statement of Community Consultation (dSoCC) in connection with its proposals for the former Manston airport site. The draft SoCC, copy attached, raises some...
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Hi with reference to the Manston DCO pre application https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport a draft consultation document has appeared on the Support...
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See Meeting Note attached
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Following the Planning Inspectorate's recent granting of access for RiverOak to the former airport site at Manston, can you confirm if Manston is an asset of national significance.
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Project Update Meeting
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I have seen reference to RiverOak carrying out their statutory consultation in Q1 2017, which is now only a matter of a few weeks away. I understand that they are required by the Planning Act 2008 to...
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See attached letter
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A suite of queries relating to s53 (Rights of Entry) of the Planning Act 2008 and timescales