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More than 2,300 comment on Southend Airport expansion
8:20am Monday 14th December 2009 in Southend
SOUTHEND Council has been inundated with more than 2,300 comments about the plans to extend the runway at Southend Airport.
Owner, the Stobart Group, wants to lengthen the runway by almost 1,000ft, pushing it across Eastwoodbury Lane, as part of a plan to reinvent the airport as a passenger hub handling more than two million passengers by 2020.
The deadline to make comments online has now closed, but interested parties can still have a say by writing to the council right up until the development control committee meeting on January 20.
Kiti Theobald, chairman of protest group, Stop Airport Extension Now, said the number of comments received so far only represented a tenth of all those living under the flightpath.
She added: “It sounds like a good response, but the council will dismiss it as small, because it doesn’t want to know.
“It is good to know so many people have gone to the trouble of writing, whatever their views.”
Neighbouring Rochford District Council’s development control committee has already voted not to oppose the plans.
The councils head of planning, Shaun Scrutton, backed the application as an opportunity to achieve at new controls on the airport, which would benefit the area and reduce its environmental impact.
Comments(17)
tophatdt
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1:15pm Mon 14 Dec 09
Max Impact
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1:48pm Mon 14 Dec 09
I have and am still having night terrors, can’t sleep I’ve turned to the bottle to help me cope...
If you’re brave or just incredibly crazy go to the protest site and listen to it but you’re never be the same again...
Think first round reject on X Factor but worse much worse... What makes it worse is the facts it’s not even thier own tune.
Wonder if they got the copyright holder’s permission to use it.
southendreb
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5:03pm Mon 14 Dec 09
One thing that puzzles me can some one tell me how passengers get from the station to the check in.
Please dont spout roubbish about me being an anti either
BASILBRUSH
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5:39pm Mon 14 Dec 09
I don't know if a shuttle will
be used until the new terminal is built. I guess it would depend on demand.
BASILBRUSH
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5:58pm Mon 14 Dec 09
I don't know if a shuttle will
be used until the new terminal is built. I guess it would depend on demand.
vanilla ice
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7:41pm Mon 14 Dec 09
BASILBRUSH
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10:40pm Mon 14 Dec 09
vanilla ice wrote:In SAEN's world yes. But in the real world no.
Two stations a minute apart down the line, it won’t be long before its good bye Rochford station, hello Container Park,
Max Impact
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11:21pm Mon 14 Dec 09
vanilla ice wrote:You can not just close a station down and besides you could not fit many containers on Rochford Station!
Two stations a minute apart down the line, it won’t be long before its good bye Rochford station, hello Container Park,
Another SAEN lie
Ian P
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12:35pm Tue 15 Dec 09
vanilla ice
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1:19pm Tue 15 Dec 09
Max Impact wrote:But you could with the car park, besides how can it be a express link to London for air passengers with trains stopping at local stations until Shenfield which means something has to give the only option left is a alternate train service which means local rail users are the losers, the last time I looked the line was one up one down and your comment that they cannot close a station, whole lines have been closed in the past. People protest count for nothing.
vanilla ice wrote:You can not just close a station down and besides you could not fit many containers on Rochford Station!
Two stations a minute apart down the line, it won’t be long before its good bye Rochford station, hello Container Park,
Another SAEN lie
BASILBRUSH
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1:28pm Tue 15 Dec 09
It's natural that any anti's would comment.
Mr Amess should keep quiet about airports. He should have been formally arrested for his alleged comments during prior to a flight to the States as normal people would. Clearly he is chasing votes following a dismal year.
It sounds almost as if Kiti concedes that only a small number have commented.
Stop this faffing and grant permission. Strict controls would be in place with permission, and the town will benefit from the jobs and potential investment with little or no extra disruption to present day.
BASILBRUSH
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1:38pm Tue 15 Dec 09
vanilla ice wrote:Firstly on what basis are you making these assumptions?
Max Impact wrote:But you could with the car park, besides how can it be a express link to London for air passengers with trains stopping at local stations until Shenfield which means something has to give the only option left is a alternate train service which means local rail users are the losers, the last time I looked the line was one up one down and your comment that they cannot close a station, whole lines have been closed in the past. People protest count for nothing.vanilla ice wrote: Two stations a minute apart down the line, it won’t be long before its good bye Rochford station, hello Container Park,You can not just close a station down and besides you could not fit many containers on Rochford Station! Another SAEN lie
Secondly, if in your world they did close Rochford (which they are not). Why would the car park be a container park?
Oh I see you think Stobart (who have nothing to do with Rochford station in Southend or Rochford or interest in haulage in Southend or Rochford), would turn it into one.
Come on. Think rationally.
Why are people so afraid of large companies wanting to operate in Southend? Large companies provide jobs and contribute massively to local economies. We all know this area is desperate for investment and jobs.
larrycooper
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5:32pm Tue 15 Dec 09
It surely has to be totally obvious to anyone with a most rudimentary knowledge of geography that Stobart's will have absolutely no interest at all in Southend being used for that?
Southend is in absolute arse end of Essex, it has just the dual track A127 and A13 going in to it .. nobody in their right mind would use Southend for freight, it makes no economic rhyme or reason at all.
Good way to scare the public though...
Georgeatlondon
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3:09pm Wed 16 Dec 09
Hamiltonpicket
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3:19pm Wed 16 Dec 09
Why are a small minority so against progress in the town, and against anyone wanting to make money here?
If Southend keeps blocking development, companies will dismiss Southend altogether. Not a problem if you are retired(although public spending will also be decreased even further) or commute to your job in London. But a big problem for those that live and work in the area.
southendmechanic
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7:31pm Wed 16 Dec 09
Hamiltonpicket wrote:just look at clacton on sea
Because the health and well-being won't decrease with the airport being upgraded. But without, the towns well-being will decrease even further. Why are a small minority so against progress in the town, and against anyone wanting to make money here? If Southend keeps blocking development, companies will dismiss Southend altogether. Not a problem if you are retired(although public spending will also be decreased even further) or commute to your job in London. But a big problem for those that live and work in the area.
Max Impact says...
12:47pm Mon 14 Dec 09
Have they got a Tardis and gone into the future to get the timetables if so they do not seem to very good, or is it just a case of "lets scare the public it to having our own way no matter what mistruths we tell"
How many of the anti airport lot fly or have flown off on holiday and will continue to do so, flying over other peoples homes but as soon as somebody wants to fly over thier home its wrong wrong wrong.
Get a life...