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#TruthwilloutGod help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-18302758584086857982018-12-28T19:45:00.001+00:002018-12-28T19:45:59.831+00:00Xmas 2018 a compilation of the art of local photographersIn December 2018 the Royal Harbour decided to put on a show. Aided and abetted by the Ramsgate Town team and Ramsgate Town Council.<br />
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Many photos were taken of the Harbour and surrounding streets and I am posting a compilation of those I think are the best<br />
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Artist is acknowledged above each grouping.<br />
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Kye Boughton<br />
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Alan Glicksman<br />
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Brian Whitehead<br />
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Carole Adams<br />
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Coastal CCTV<br />
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Dave Trelfer<br />
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Dean Spinks<br />
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Drew Maple<br />
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Edwin Bond<br />
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Frank Leppard<br />
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Karen Cox<br />
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Kerri Baker<br />
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Malcolm Kirkaldie<br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-67635811001378716792018-09-30T21:54:00.000+01:002018-10-31T16:24:17.007+00:00The art of photographyOver the years I have been collecting Ramsgate based photos. There have been some absolutely brilliant pictures. No wonder people move to Ramsgate.<br />
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Artist Malcolm Kirkaldie<br />
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Artist John "Smiddy" Smith<br />
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Artist Kane GuyGod help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-87176714533682544692018-09-13T18:08:00.001+01:002018-09-13T18:08:27.914+01:00Lies, damn lies and the Save Manston Airport AssociationFurther to the successful town meetings in Ramsgate (7/9/2018) and Herne Bay (11/9/2018) the Save Manston Airport Association decided to post their own version of propaganda on their website. I reproduce it here myth by myth.<br />
<u><b>Myth one</b></u><br />
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"<b>Local Authorities decide the levels appropriate to their areas</b>" true but only to a point, They must use a formula devised by the Ministry of Housing, Community, and Local Government (MHCLG) and use laid down baseline studies such as Census & population studies. This must be agreed with MHCLG otherwise the plan is deemed unsound.<br />
"<b>The current local plan remains in force until replaced</b>" incorrect!! The Council must decide on which policies to save and which would be incorporated into the Draft Local Plan.<br />
"<b>Each planning application is decided on its own merits with or without a local plan in force</b>." again incorrect. TDC may decline or accept true but there are consequences. You cannot have a 5 year supply of land for housing if the plan has run out which Thanet's plan did in 2011 this leads to declined planning applications being overturned on appeal.<br />
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Oh how manipulative they are, now the truth.<br />
To be accepted as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) Riveroak Strategic Partners (RSP) have to prove the project is capable of 10000 Air Transport Movements (ATMs) however there is nothing stopping them from creating a projection that is significantly higher than 10000. In fact in their documents they have concluded the capability of Manston is 83220 (TR020002-002382-2.3 - NSIP Justification) which to use the calculation from SMAa equates to <b>nearly 14 flights an hour or one every 4 and a half minutes.</b><br />
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"<b>RSP are not applying for a license for scheduled night flights as these are not needed</b>" An outright lie this one. As RSP decided that applying for the NSIP and then a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) aerodrome licence would take too long they made the decision to run the two applications side by side, Their application to the CAA was made in February 2017 and is reproduced below. <b>You will note Night Flights for Cargo planes are indicated.</b><br />
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"<b>Nearly all night cargo movements are integrated, night parcels/ mail. They are scheduled, short haul and very , very light weights, operated by modern, quiet aeroplanes, a lot smaller than we have previously been used to at Manston</b>. <b>At the moment Manston is not planned to be a part of these hub and spoke night services."</b> The cynical amongst us might think that if "<b>Manston is not planned to be part of these hubs</b>" why mention it at all however as Manston was <b>NEVER</b> part of these in the past one can only presume Manston might well continue to attract <b>CHARTERED</b> Cargo which of course is the reason for applying for Night Flights.<br />
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"<b>The Council proposes no such thing. SHP have submitted an application for outline planning permission for such a development"</b> Another outright lie easily disproved by reference to the Draft Local Plan agreed by TDC in July 2018. If they were never part of the plan why move them to Green Field sites around the district.<br />
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First off both reports did in fact say Manston isn't viable however to start:<br />
"The Avia Report of 2016 was prefaced with the caveat that it should not be should not be used or taken as business, financial, tax, accounting, legal or other advice." If one takes this tact on a standard caveat then the Planning Inspectorate should throw out Sally Dixon's report on Manston.<br />
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But of course they will not and the author of SMAa's report knows that fact.<br />
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Both Reports (Avia and Falcon) did in fact come to the conclusion that Manston wasn't viable despite the above,<br />
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However many other Aviation experts have come to the same conclusion. The overall verdict is that Manston is totally in the wrong place and too far to make it a viable cargo airport.<br />
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<b>"The only way an airport could be developed at Manston is if an American company persuades the Government that it should be given the land"</b> No one at the meeting would have said this because Riveroak LLP (based in Delaware) vanished from the reckoning in 2016,<br />
<b>"Riveroak Strategic Planning (RSP) is a UK registered company. It is RSP that is pursuing the DCO and it will be RSP that is involved with its operation"</b> This is correct but not the whole story which SMAa take pains to avoid mentioning. RSP is 90% owned by a holding company MIO Investments registered in Belize ostensibly to hide the true ownership and therefore the control rests in the Belizean company not the UK.<br />
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Most of this has already been dealt with above but "Modern aircraft are neither noisy nor dirty" as RSP have not indicated any aircraft at all in their applications I'm afraid SMAa are whistling into the wind when they state such a thing with certainty. If past history is anything to go by then what Manston attracts is charters which no one else wants.<br />
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"<b>As pointed out above, the draft Local Plan housing allocation is not cast in stone (1). Using ONS figures the new housing requirement has been recalculated at about 6,700 houses left to find, not 17,000 (2), and presently identified brownfield sites are more than sufficient for this demand (3)</b>" Again SMAa being economical with facts. 1. Until the plan is accepted by MHCLG the 1st statement is true however the Govt. is entitled to call the plan as unsound and they can actually increase the housing allocation. 2. The total 20 year allocation (2011-2031) is 17140 and some have already been granted planning and some are already built. 3. This is simply wrong however if Manston (on the brown field register) 2500 houses could be taken off green fields.<br />
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and damn lies” to mean statistics can prove most things but mathematics cannot
lie, however it is in forecasting that statistics are mostly used incorrectly.
None more so that in the work of fiction submitted to PINS by Riveroak
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sally’s 254 page report is based on a major misrepresentation of the facts and ignores the company's reason for submitting the DCO, namely a Cargo Hub and ignores the fact that they paid her for her report, however I digress. Let
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">During the years 2006 to 2016 airfreight handled in the UK
has increased by a paltry 2.58% (1.31 Million tonnes to 1.54 Million tonnes)
which is ½ of 1% of all freight handled by the UK. Most comes in HGV’s or
purpose built freighters to ports like Felixstowe, Southampton and Immingham.
This is because the cost of airfreight is up to 4x more expensive that the
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aircargo freighter movements from 110,000 to 52000 (see below) and this at a
time when airfreight has flatlined. Simply put freight forwarders have been
cutting their costs by transporting cargo in the belly of passenger planes, the
main beneficiary of this is Heathrow where the volume of freight has grown by
17.5% and where Gatwick has lost out as their volume dropped by 50% over the
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of which is belly hold) with the rest divided up amongst all other UK airports.
The two largest are Stanstead and East Midlands where the business model is
daytime passengers and night time is cargo. This model is working for them as
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sally Dixon’s statistics show a marked disregard for the
basics of forecasting when she uses statements like “The importance of air
travel is forecast to continue to grow, with 50% more flights in 2035 than
there were in 2012, from around 9 million per year to 14.4 million
(Eurocontrol, 2013). The freighter fleet is set to increase by 70% over the next
20 years while air cargo traffic more than doubles (Boeing, 2016b, p. 4).” When
she knows that she refers to the worldwide growth in aviation which 1. Is not
reflected in UK aviation and 2. Refers to, mainly, passenger growth. Boeing’s
report is clearer when it reports on regions as follows, Cargo freighters
reducing from 6% to 5% by 2037, Europe’s overall share reducing from 20% to
18%. Not the rosy picture Sally portrays in her submission.</span></div>
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use the statistics from one element (passenger growth) and displace them onto a
different sector. Further she says that “The lack of availability in the UK for
freighter slots, airports’ preference - in a constrained market - for passenger
flights, and delays in loading and unloading freighter aircraft indicate
airport capacity constraints, particularly in the South East, as a plausible
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goods in the UK compared to the rest of the world.” However the truth is so
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-20742946858874984592018-09-10T17:45:00.000+01:002018-09-10T18:13:42.006+01:00How to become an Interested PartyGuest post based on a handout at the Public Meeting held at Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School on the Friday 7th September 2018. The meeting was organised by the No to Night Flights over Ramsgate group and their website is <a href="https://nonightflights.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Visit <span style="margin: 0px;"> the overview of the DCO at National planning <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport/?ipcsection=overview" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>click on the tab for registering on line as
an interested party <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport/?ipcsection=relreps" target="_blank">here</a></b></div>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your name<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a>….
who you are representing (“me/my family” is OK – don’t mention NNF if you definitely
want to speak yourself)…. explain your connection with the local area and how
you are affected by the proposals….then give a brief summary of the main
point(s) you want an Inspector to look into. Go for quality, not quantity.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Limit is ideally 500 words. Be clear and
objective, not shouty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Say what evidence
supports you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Say why it matters to you.
Keep to what RSP have actually said in their application (all documents are on
the PINS site <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport/?ipcsection=docs" target="_blank">here</a> ).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You don’t need to use
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following points could be useful - <u>choose a few points that most worry you and
use your own words.</u><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is about
quality and personal knowledge, not quantity.<u></u></b></div>
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Registering doesn’t commit you to speaking
at public meetings. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We can sort this out
later. Registering simply gets you in the game and tells the Inspectors what
you think. It helps the Inspectors decide what to explore with RSP in the
examination phase. Registering is about influence.</i><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- No Government policy statement
has said the UK needs a new freight airport. The Department for Transport does
not predict any growth in the number of freight flights.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Therefore, the application must establish a
clear and compelling case of need in the national interest if it is to be
granted a DCO.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This it fails to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- RSP’s proposals come at a heavy economic and environmental
cost to Thanet District Council’s future supply of housing sites.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The redundant airport site of 720 - 800 acres
forms the only large brownfield site with potential for housing development. It
was included in the officers’ recommended draft of the Local Plan with an
allocation for housing and mixed use development - a strong recommendation
overruled by a new Council in January 2018 on the misconceived rationale that this
would give time for the DCO to proceed.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>One MP also commented that the decision to remove the site as a site for
housing would ensure the value of the site did not become unaffordable for RSP!</span></div>
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case does not stand up and cannot therefore outweigh the economic and
environmental harm the development will undoubtedly cause:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Unsatisfactory
and inadequate evidence of business case</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">No financial
business case is presented to judge the strength of the commercial proposition (i.e.
with detailed financial justifications and including cash flow, profit and
loss, and investment predictions). </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Central and crucial
forecasts of air freight, market demand, job creation, etc all rest on work by a
former close colleague of one of RSP’s principal directors, lacking
independence and experience.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Those predictions
and conclusions (in the Azimuth reports) ignore market trends to belly-hold freight
(and reasons for the shift) and lack credible supporting evidence.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They require very careful scrutiny.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">4 independent and
expert aviation opinions<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a> disagree
that Manston can be viable and 3 directly challenge the Azimuth findings (the first
expert report predated Azimuth) e.g. “extremely optimistic, not credible or
likely, with negligible supporting evidence.” “Our overall conclusion is that
the RSP proposals and the Azimuth forecasts are deeply flawed. The outlook put
forward by RSP / Azimuth does not reflect market realities. We would expect
freight tonnage and freight ATM outturn at a reopened Manston to be
considerably below the Azimuth forecasts.” “A work of assertion rather than
evidence of systematic analysis of the potential market”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One (York Aviation) complained that Azimuth
had misrepresented York Aviation’s data and findings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Manston’s history
as a freight airport</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Under three
private owners, freight formed the core component of the airport’s growth
strategy from 1999 until its closure in 2014.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Since Manston started operating as a commercial cargo airport in 1999,
the number of cargo flights (ATMs) across UK airports has shrunk, from 108,000
in 2000 to 52,000 in 2016. The most recent (2017) Department for Transport
forecasts to 2050 assume the number of freighter flights in the UK will remain
flat at 2016 levels. The market has halved and Manston failed when there was
twice as much business to go for. There is no evidence the market is going to
grow or requires a new freight airport.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In a falling
market for cargo ATMs, every ATM lured to Manston would have to be won from
another UK airport. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So, any jobs created
at Manston will be at the cost of jobs at another UK air or sea port.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They also come at the cost of Thanet’s current
heritage-dependent<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
approach to local regeneration [see section E below plus new separate section,
under “development”] </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The evidence
shows that there is sufficient existing and planned capacity to deal with
growth in air freight at existing UK airports.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Azimuth claims there is a pent up demand for air freight to come into
the UK.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They say it now comes in by
truck because the freight airports are full. This ignores the considerable
spare freight capacity at East Midlands and at Stansted Airports, as well as at
a host of other operational UK airports.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It also ignores the fact that the majority of the air freight market is
long haul, and increasingly so, and that for domestic and short haul
destinations in Europe it is often cheaper, faster and more flexible to truck
freight to its destination.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Freight
operators choose to truck freight short distance. They’re not doing it because
there is no flight option. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If
additional air freight capacity was ever required, Manston is in the wrong place,
located at the end of a peninsula.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Successive expert
reports, plus analysis of the current and future UK air freight sector, say it
is unlikely that Manston could ever become a commercially viable
operation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A fourth failed attempt with
the same strategy to run Manston as a freight airport would prevent plans for
the site which offer serious and sustainable regeneration and job creation in
Thanet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca. 700 words]</b></span></div>
</div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>FUNDING</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning context</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The application carries
a high level of risk and uncertainty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It
is a commercial operation that needs substantial infrastructure investment to
function. If it fails, the site is devalued - <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>witness the previous sell-off of the site for
£1. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yet the potential commercial operation
is highly sensitive to and predicated on strongly disputed forecasts of
dedicated air cargo demand, and market share <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>- forecasts that appear to have been dismissed
by every specialist aviation consultancy firm that has considered them<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- There is no business
plan by which to gauge the strength of the commercial operation. There will be very
high start-up costs coupled with any potential returns being very long
term.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This increases the need to probe
the scale, origin, reliability and sustainability of funding sources over the
short, medium and long term especially given the high level risk that potential
investors would perceive given Manston’s dismal track record and poor location.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- This DCO is objectionable
in that RSP owns none of the necessary land and cannot show it has the hundreds
of millions necessary to bring this project to fruition.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The application looks like an attempt to use
Government powers to permit a highly speculative adventure by a shadowy
offshore company with no substance or track record of operating a successful
freight airport.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That is contrary to
basic property rights. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- PINS have said that the
Funding Statement does not comply with guidance and needs to be rectified early
in the Examination.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The examination should
not proceed without the applicant demonstrating that they have access to
sufficient funding to acquire the land should they be successful.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Here are some initial representations that the sums do
not add up for this application:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Costs
underestimated</span></u></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The
price put forward to acquire the site via a CPO (£7.5m) massively underestimates
the value of that brownfield site. RSP claims this reflects qualified advice but
the estimate is wildly inconsistent with the 1961 Land Compensation Act, which
requires an ‘open market’ basis for valuation - taking full account of
potential use of the land acquired (e.g. mixed residential and other
alternative uses, and the ability of the land owners to do a similar scheme to
RSP’s). </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The estimate for
noise mitigation measures (£5.6m) appears infected by the flawed noise contours
[see noise briefing below].<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It should be
much higher.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Allowance should
be made, as a minimum, for compensation to the communities that RSP admits will
suffer permanent adverse effects (LOAEL) from their proposal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The estimate for
blight claims (£500,000) seems unduly optimistic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Unsatisfactory
information on investors and directors</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The information
on the investors is so limited that no comfort can be derived regarding the
ability to access the £15m claimed, let alone a realistic figure. No evidence
of funding the development has been provided.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The principal RSP
Directors have been seeking compulsory purchase of Manston since early 2014. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were rejected twice by a Labour and then
a UKIP administration at TDC as potential indemnity partners in a CPO process
due to their failure to demonstrate financial credibility. They have failed
consistently to demonstrate that they can raise the necessary funds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant directors
have no track record in this sector, except failure, serial insolvency and
other issues.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The representations
regarding the ability to raise finance must be tested using a fully prepared
investment appraisal and details of the investors. · </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The application
states “RSP anticipates that it will raise further equity and debt finance
following the making of the DCO in order to develop the authorised development”
but this makes this DCO akin to a landgrab<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
and overlooks the damage done to the property rights of the land owner and
local residents whose interests will suffer as a result of this speculative
adventure. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca 600 words]</b></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">NOISE AND NIGHT
FLIGHTS</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning Context</span></u></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The Government’s 2018 National
Policy Statement on airport capacity in the South East states that any
proposals for airport expansion should be judged on their individual merits,
including potential negative effects.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Noise levels are highlighted as a particular concern, requiring
examination<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a>. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Some initial representations that the applicant has presented
estimates that underestimate the potential negative effects of noise from his
proposed development, and has disguised his true intentions on night flights</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">No caps on
flight numbers</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant
states that the runway and 19 stands it proposes are capable of handling 83,000
freight Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) annually but bases its “worst case” noise
assessments on its estimate that a figure of 17,170 ATMs is more likely.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, as RSP proposes no cap on the number
of ATMs, 17,170 is not “worst case”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Nor is any cap
proposed on the number of night flights, only an overall noise quota of 3028 QC
points a year. This would permit very extensive night flying,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>well over three times<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the “worst case” assumptions for night flights
used in RSP’s Environmental Assessment (based on 8 flights per night).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Dubious noise modelling
and assumptions</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant has
paid insufficient attention to ‘real time’ official noise measurements from
past airport operations<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a> at
Manston and his noise contours over Ramsgate are impossible to reconcile with the
noise contours presented by a previous operator in 2011, when applying for a
much smaller operation<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.
They also appear contradicted by CAA noise measurement of the first 17 months
of Boeing 787 operations at Heathrow Airport<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a>,
where no reading at 3.8km from the end of runway was less than 90 SEL dBA -how
could noise levels over St Lawrence (1.6km distant) and central Ramsgate (3.2km
distant) be much lower as RSP claims?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Further evidence
casting doubt on the applicant’s noise predictions comes from independent noise
experts engaged by the local authority in 2010 when a previous operator at
Manston applied for a QC night budget of 1,995. The experts concluded “the
populations predicted to be within the 85 dB(A) contour by such departures
ranges from 14,722 [people] for MD11 departures, up to 30,903 for the Boeing
747-400.”</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant’s
baseline noise measurements are flawed and unsatisfactory and his noise
modelling includes some questionable assumptions, e.g. it will secure runway
choices that will reduce the historic aviation noise exposure of Ramsgate
residents<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That is not “worst case”. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The noise
modelling also uses a technical standard (SONA 2014) intended for an airport
already operating (which Manston cannot be without planning consents) rather
than the DfT WebTAG standard<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></a>. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant put
forward a spurious metric for assessing significant effects of aircraft noise
at night<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Unclear
intentions on Night flights</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Despite the
applicant’s insistence locally that he “neither wants nor needs” any night
flights save emergency and humanitarian exceptions<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[14]</span></span></span></span></span></a> the
veiled business logic of the application appears to favour capturing the bottom
of the freight market viz. noisy night flights, witness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-
proposal to accept night ATMs rated at QC4 - prohibited from the London
airports on noise grounds<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[15]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-
failure to address disturbing impacts from noisier aircraft </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-
asserting free night flights as the top reason operators would choose Manston
above E Midlands Airport</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-
his response to the public consultation comments favouring night flights repeatedly
states that RSP “welcomes support for night flights”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">As
most of UK cargo flights are night flights it is especially important to be
clear about what is a realistic worst case night flight <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">scenario and about the human costs of that
proposal.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Other implications from night
time freight handling do not appear adequately to have been addressed, e.g.
light pollution. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Unrealistic
approach to mitigating the noise problems caused</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant’s
proposals for mitigating the noise they will create for individual residents
show disregard for the noticeable and intrusive noise nuisance their
development will create: they would offer just £4,000 towards sound insulation
and <u>only for people living where the applicant says people will experience over
63 decibels continuously, averaged over a 16 hour periods (55 decibels averaged
over 8 hours if from a bedroom)</u>.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Compare the applicant’s thresholds with where the Government says <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>"Noticeable and intrusive' noise occurs
(LOAEL)<span style="margin: 0px;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a></span>: <u>51</u>
decibels (day) and <u>45 </u>decibels (night)! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca 900 wds]</b></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S
HEALTH.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>GREENHOUSE GASES</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning context</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The Government’s 2018
National Policy Statement on airport capacity in the South East states that any
proposals for airport expansion should be judged on their individual merits,
including potential negative effects.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Therefore,
adverse effects on community health from air quality impacts need to be given
full weight against claimed economic benefits of the proposed development.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Initial representations concern the human costs
arising from negative health impacts from noise, particulate and NO2 pollution
and greenhouse gas emissions:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Noise</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Aircraft noise
significantly impairs health as study after study shows.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A daytime average sound pressure level of
60dB increases risk of coronary heart disease by 61% in men and 80% in women.
Significant health effects start at an average sound pressure level of 40dB.
Noise events cause significant increase in blood pressure levels in both men
and women.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Aircraft noise significantly
affects the risk of hypertension. There is increased risk of cardiovascular
disease for those experiencing annual average daytime noise levels of 50dB and
above.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Researchers have found a
statistically significant association between exposure to aircraft noise and
risk of hospitalisation for cardiovascular disease, particularly among older people
living near airports<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">2.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><u>Risk to children’s developing abilities</u></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Children living
under flights paths have been shown to have deficits in long-term memory and
reading comprehension.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Particulate pollution</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Particular
grounds for concern that particulate pollution from the proposed freight hub
would seriously endanger the health and wellbeing of local communities in the
surrounding towns and villages, including Minster, Manston, Margate and
Ramsgate, and would exacerbate the UK’s air pollution crisis in general.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">RSP says:
“Concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 [the tiny bits of various materials easily
absorbed by human tissue] around the airport are low, and the airport will be a
very small source of these pollutants.” But there are insufficient data
available to back up this claim. According to the Thanet District Council 2017
Air Quality Annual Status Report from June 2017, the Council does not currently
undertake any monitoring of PM2.5, and consequently there are currently no
measures in place to specifically address PM2.5 concentrations within the
District. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So references to it being
within limits or not too severe in relation to the proposal at hand are unfounded.
PM10 is only being measured at two sites in Thanet, Birchington and Ramsgate, and
while they are currently under annual mean limits, both have been on the rise
since 2014. In addition, the capture rate in Ramsgate is only 83% so the level
of pollution could, in fact, be higher. </span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">4.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>NO2 pollution</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Contrary to RSP’s
claim that there is “scientific uncertainty about the health effects of NO2”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>NO2 pollution alone has been linked to the
premature deaths of 23,500 people in the UK every year, with 90% of Britain’s
urban areas experiencing illegal levels of NO2 pollution since 2010. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is classified as a human carcinogen by the
World Health Organisation and is linked to lung cancer, asthma, and
cardiovascular illness.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>NO2 inflames the
lining of the lungs and makes them more susceptible to illnesses such as
bronchitis and asthma. Children are particularly vulnerable. If developing
lungs are affected the damage is life-limiting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Road transport is
estimated to be responsible for 60% of all NO2 emissions<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[17]</span></span></span></span></span></a>. Consequently,
it is not credible in the slightest that the additional contribution to air
pollution from the proposed development, including considerable airport-related
HGV traffic, will be “small”, “slight”, “moderate” or even “negligible”. To the
contrary, these plans would counteract urgent plans to tackle the current air
quality problems in the UK. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It should be
taken into account that Thanet’s population is older than average and therefore
likely to be disproportionately affected by increased air pollution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Greenhouse
gases</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Proposals to
reduce greenhouse gases are weak, often beyond the applicant’s control and, by
their own admission, only affect a tiny percentage of the emissions.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He overlooks the fact that cargo planes are
usually older and more polluting that passenger planes and takes insufficient account
of the huge increase in heavy goods vehicles on the roads he will cause across
Thanet and beyond. The applicant’s claim that” there are no significant effects
for greenhouse gas emissions from the Proposed Development on the climate” is
repugnant to reason. The development would plainly lead to significant
increases in carbon emissions and contribute to climate change.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is not to be taken discounted in Kent,
where sea-level rise already threatens homes, farmland, and sites of
international nature conservation importance. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca 800 words]</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">E.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>PUBLIC SAFETY
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning context</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The applicant’s proposed
10,000-17,100 flights p.a. are below the 18,000 ATM threshold for requiring
Public Safety Zones (PSZ). However, the applicant says that the new airport
will have a capacity of 83,000 ATMs. Comparably sized UK airports show best
practice by having PSZs. The RSP proposal contains no mention of these, nor any
analysis of the 1: 10,000 or 1: 100,000 risk contours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- Manston operated under a
Certificate of Lawfulness granted because it had civilian flights during its
time as an MOD property. A proper risk analysis would conclude that Manston
should not be given planning permission as an airport let alone a DCO. Given
the proximity of Ramsgate (population 40,000), the number of schools under the
flight path, the height of the aircraft over the town, the nature of cargo
aircraft, the lack of a local major A&E centre and past history at the
airport, the Major Accidents and Disaster Assessment and Mitigation Plan
(TR020002/APP/5.2-3) delivered by RSP fails to address risk factors
adequately.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The following are initial representations that the
applicant has not done enough to consider public safety</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Lessons from
experience </span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">At its peak in
2009, Manston handled 30,000 tonnes of cargo a year with only 435 flights and
yet we had a number of potentially fatal incidents that could have resulted in
major loss of life. With 10,000 flights, the risks increase dramatically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant proposes
that 70% of its take-offs will be over Ramsgate. Cargo aircraft are usually
older aircraft, often from countries where safety standards are poor. Previous
Manston customers include MK Airlines, Meridian and KAM Air, all now banned
from UK air space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In August 2010, a
KAM Air plane “struck its tail on the runway and the grass surface beyond the
runway before becoming airborne during take-off from Manston Airport (United
Kingdom). Investigations of this serious incident by the United Kingdom
concluded that there were serious deficiencies with the operational control of
the DC8 fleet of Kam Air.” (para 14, COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1071/2010).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Manston Green development of 785 homes is
500m from the end of the runway and directly under the flight path. It has
outline planning permission and this year, was awarded £2.5 million from the
Housing Infrastructure Fund. Any similar incident could result in major loss of
life at Manston Green and/or the Cliffsend homes 250m to the side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In 2012, in a
vortex incident in Southwood Gardens (2.5km to runway) created as a plane went
over, the entire roof fell into a neighbour’s garden narrowly missing her. If
this had happened at nearby Chilton Primary School during playtime, there would
have been significant loss of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Ramsgate is not
4km from the runway as RSP contends. Currently, the built-up area begins 1.3km
from the runway and directly under the flightpath. It is 4km across Ramsgate <u>from
the Marina</u> to the runway. The town is atop two cliffs. There are 3 schools
directly under the flight path.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">“In approximate
terms the aircraft will finally descent (sic) at 52m for each kilometre
travelled, such that at the Marina, aircraft would be 235m above the aerodrome
level (54m), or 289m above sea level.” (p14, London Manston Airport, Aircraft
Noise Assessment and Mitigation Report, June 2003)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">School</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Number
of Pupils</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Distance
from Runway</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Height
of Aircraft</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Chilton
Primary School </span></div>
</td>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">422</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">1.8km</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">150m
(land dips)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Christ
Church Primary School </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">253</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">2.75km</span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1.33px 1.33px 0px; height: 16.8pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 120.5pt;" valign="top" width="133"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">185m</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Chatham
& Clarendon Grammar </span></div>
</td>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">1372</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">3.5km</span></div>
</td>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">209m</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">When
Manston was operational, SEL readings from the noise monitor atop the Grammar
school consistently recorded levels above 90dB. 10,000 aircraft would cause
hearing loss and make teaching impossible. (Data sets available). </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">80,000 ATMs?</span></u></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Total cargo
flights at all London airports in 2017 was only 14,588. Manston seems too far
from London to capture 68.5% of this market. York Aviation, Falcon Consultancy,
Avia Solutions and Kent County Council have all published reports stating
Manston will never succeed as an airport. The Davies Commission found no role
for it. The applicant’s talk of even a theoretical capacity of 83,000 ATMs
appears to be absurd but if RSP consider that anything over 20,000 ATMs is even
a remote possibility then they were required to include PSZs in their
application.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca 650 words] </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">F.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">IMPACT ON RAMSGATE
HERITAGE ASSETS AND RAMSGATE HERITAGE ACTION ZONE</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning context</span></u></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-Ramsgate
has around 450 listed sites and buildings and four conservation areas (Pegwell,
Montefiore, Royal Esplanade and Central Harbour).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 2017, we became one of Historic England’s
first Heritage Action Zones (HAZ), alongside cities like Coventry and
Hull.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are now 18 Heritage Action
Zones but Ramsgate is still the only HAZ in the South East Region.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The HAZ is a 5-year programme covering the whole of
Ramsgate.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Its aim is <u>to use the
town’s heritage assets to achieve sustainable economic growth</u>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">As part
of this programme Historic England has carried out a series of surveys<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[18]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
(not recognised in the developer’s application).</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- Here are initial representations that
the applicant’s case fails generally to recognise the quality and significance
of Ramsgate’s heritage assets - and understates the impact of the development
upon them</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">. </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Unsatisfactory
measurement of impact</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Limited assessment
of the impact of proposed operations, reflecting applicant’s questionable
decision to ‘scope out’ any detailed environmental assessment beyond a
kilometre of the airport perimeter, scoping out Ramsgate!</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Insufficient
weight given to noise data from the airport’s last operational use, reliance on
modelling based on optimistic and questionable assumptions.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Inadequate regard to Historic England guidance<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[19]</span></span></span></span></span></a>
on calculating the effects of aviation on the historic environment (including
for example the physical damage caused by noise and low frequency vibration,
and the human response to noise).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Failure to
recognise key features of the area, e.g. that many of the most significant
listed buildings are residential properties and located in Central Harbour
ward, directly under the flight path.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Failure to weigh
the impact of disincentivising those whose time, energy and other resources are
needed to conserve and sustain most local heritage assets.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Failure to address
the visual impact of the proposals on heritage assets such as Ramsgate Royal
Harbour and on the reviving tourist industry, a major source of employment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Flight paths</span></u></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Flight paths will
be fundamental to understanding the level and extent of noise and visual
disturbance to vulnerable communities and heritage assets. The applicant makes questionable
assumptions that he will secure runway preferences that will reduce the
historic aviation noise exposure of Ramsgate residents<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[20]</span></span></span></span></span></a>. This
assumption, convenient for his noise contours, appears optimistic and in any
event not “worst case”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Official data
from Manston's most recent operational period<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[21]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>establishes beyond doubt that most of the
town of Ramsgate is likely to experience sound levels in excess of 60dB SEL.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even if the operators prohibited older and
noisier aircraft - to the contrary, RSP’s Noise Mitigation Plan proposes to
welcome old QC4 rated ATMs - the levels of ATMs they propose greatly exceed
what was seen when noise levels in Ramsgate were recorded.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Maximum sound impacts from aviation in
Ramsgate were regularly recorded at over 100dB, plus many of adverse effects
identified in the relevant guidance as requiring careful study.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The close
proximity to the proposed airport, its unavoidable location directly under the
principal flight path, and the intensity of its 24-hour operation, puts
Ramsgate at serious risk from the effects of noise, vibration, pollution and
visual disturbance. Collectively these factors would combine to make Ramsgate a
far less attractive town in which to live, work, and visit, adversely impacting
on much needed regeneration.</span></div>
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The above are based on a submission by Infratil in 2011 when they wanted Nightflights and are based on noise contours of a Boeing 747-400F the workhorse of the airfreight business. They show landings and take off contours.<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Landing Glide Path</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The application
gives insufficient attention to the glide path on landing and the implications
of the height of aircraft above various parts of the built-up area. This is a
key factor in noise disturbance and in assessing the potential for physical
damage to building fabric.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Ramsgate is not
4km from the runway as the application wrongly states. Currently, the built-up
area begins 1.3km from the runway and directly under the flightpath. It is 4km
across Ramsgate from the Marina to the runway. The following diagram may
actually underestimate how close descending jumbos will be to historic Ramsgate
roofs. [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 600 words] </b></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Planning context</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The Thanet Coast,
Sandwich Bay and Pegwell Bay complex is highly important for nature
conservation and biodiversity. Due to its importance it has been protected
under several UK, EU and International laws and conventions, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet Coast and
Sandwich Bay Special Protection Area (SPA) – under the European Union Directive
on the Conservation of Wild Birds, which requires member states to take
appropriate steps to avoid pollution or the deterioration of habitats or any
disturbance affecting the birds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">b.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet Coast and
Sandwich Bay Ramsar site – a wetland site of international importance as a
waterfowl habitat under the RAMSAR Convention, which requires the conservation
of wetlands designated sites</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet Coast
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) – special area of conservation under the EU
Habitats Directive </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Sandwich Bay
Special Area of Conservation (SAC) – see above</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Margate and Long
Sands SAC – see above</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Outer Thames
Estuary marine SPA – see above</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The
nationally designated sites are:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet Coast
Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Sandwich Bay and
Hacklinge Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet Coast SSSI</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Sandwich and
Pegwell Bay National Nature Reserve (NNR)</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">A new Marine
Conservation Zone at Goodwin Sands, put forward by DEFRA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-The applicant proposes to
overfly a complex mosaic of habitats of great importance and vulnerability,
especially known for its bird population, notably waders and wildfowl. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are over 30 nationally rare species of
terrestrial and marine plants, 19 nationally rare and 149 nationally scarce
invertebrate species.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Breeding birds
that use the SSSI include Ringed plover, Oystercatcher and Little tern Sterna
albifrons, <u>a species specially protected by law and listed on Schedule 1 of
the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981</u>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Here are some initial representations that insufficient
consideration has been given both to direct impacts (e.g. increased noise
levels, disturbance by aircraft, night noise, deposition of pollutants such as
nitrogen oxides) and indirect impacts (e.g. cumulative effects, increased
traffic impacts or the impacts of infrastructure development associated with
the proposals).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Cumulative
effects and impact on rare birds</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The applicant
declares that “No significant inter-project cumulative effects are likely with
regards to air quality, biodiversity, freshwater environment, historic
environment, land quality, landscape, noise (construction period only),
socio-economics, traffic and transport, health and wellbeing, climate change
and major accidents and disasters.” However, cumulative impacts appear likely
from for instance, extension of the existing Thanet Offshore Wind Farm (Thanet
Extension), laying of cables by Vattenfall at Pegwell Reserve, Dover Harbour
Board’s proposal to dredge parts of the Goodwin Sands.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The report admits
significant adverse effects are likely as a result of increased noise in the
communities which are in the vicinity of the airport and flight paths
(Ramsgate; Manston; St Nicolas at Wade; West Stourmouth; and Pegwell Bay), but
still maintains that the proposal will not have a significant effect on the
European designated sites for vulnerable wildlife that border on these
communities.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is questionable.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Of particular concern
is the presence of wading birds, which are especially vulnerable to disturbance
as they have limited periods to feed on the mudflats each day due to tides. The
scientific research paper, “Exploring behavioural responses of shorebirds to
impulsive noise<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[22]</span></span></span></span></span></a>”
indicates that increasing levels of disturbance directly impact breeding and
overwintering success of wading birds.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Concern must be
expressed for the airport site - with breeding bird species, such as the
skylark and grey partridge, and the barn owl, whose nests RSP propose to
relocate. Loss of habitat is identified as one of the top reasons why the UK's
wildlife species are decreasing in number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">2<u>. Pollution</u></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Drainage from the
proposed development will be via an existing outfall pipe directly into the sea
at Pegwell Bay. Whilst RSP have stated that pollutants, including hydrocarbons
(oil and fuel) and de-icer will be removed in a ‘dirty pond’ prior to discharge
down to Pegwell Bay, there is no detail provided. As spillages could occur at
any point on the hardstanding (aprons, taxiways & runway) it is unclear how
they will ensure that rain falling onto the site which currently discharges
directly into Pegwell Bay will be kept free from pollutants. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Concerned about
possible contamination of the aquifer, given the ‘Likely Land Quality Effects’
outlined in table 4.1 of the Non Technical Summary, particularly the
decommissioning of existing tanks and infrastructure on the Jentex site and the
construction of the proposed fuel farm. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[ca
700 words]</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">- The applicant’s traffic
modelling appears incomplete and it must be questionable whether it can be
completed in time for examination.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Initial representations are that the applicant has not
presented a credible answer to the road congestion and fuel supply situation.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Fuel tanker
movements </span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Manston Airport
does not have hydrant fuelling system and is not connected to the CLH Pipeline
System so has no secure supply of Jet A-1 fuel, the standard fuel for
commercial aircraft. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In the past
Manston airport activities were on a relatively small scale, easily served by
road tankers. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">With the new
plans submitted by RSP for the total redevelopment of the airport (with a
stated theoretical maximum number of 83,000 flight movements ATMs) annually and
a planned target of 17,170 cargo ATMs) the safe supply of aviation fuel to the
airport becomes an important issue for the community at large.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">RSP are proposing
to move the fuel farm (disused) which is currently on the Northern Grass to the
current Jentex site on Canterbury West Road in Cliffsend. It will be right at
the edge of a residential area. This move will require permission from the
Environment Agency.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">As a high
percentage of the freight landing at the airport is predicted by the applicant
to be long distance, Manston will be an important refuelling stop. 17,170 ATMs
would require the delivery by road of at least 600,000 litres of fuel daily for
aircraft of the popular Boeing 737 type.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The 747 requires 183,000 litres. The 767-300 requires 90,770 litres, the
Airbus A330-300 requires 97,000 litres.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The fuel delivery figure could plausibly rise to 2,000,000 litres per
day, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">requiring 50 - 60 road tanker
deliveries every 24 hours</b>. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Should RSP
increase their capacity closer to the 83,000 flight movements they claim they
could handle, the impact on traffic volumes would rise correspondingly. Such
traffic movements in a heavily built up and restricted road access area like
Thanet would pose serious dangers to the local population and the environment
as a whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Freight
traffic movements to and from Manston Airport</span></u></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Thanet is served
by only three main access roads, A28, A299 and the A256. Of these three only
A253 and A299 access the airport directly. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In the context of
BREXIT, the Government has already informed us to be prepared for major
disruption to traffic in East Kent, particularly around Dover. This disruption
has no time limit and could stretch long into the future. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It would be likely to affect most severely the
A256 which could cease to function as a viable route out of Thanet, leaving the
A299 as the only major access road to the airport. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Is there an
alternative or secondary route to access the airport planned? Has RSP taken
steps to instigate and model special measures regarding the shipment of
dangerous cargos like aviation fuel? If so will this route run through the
village which one? Will they be using the B2050, B2190 road system? </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The existing road
network around the airport is far from adequate at the present moment and has
been designed to restrict traffic and impede HGV's. Though RSP do mention
upgrading the roads it is unclear how and when this would be funded.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">17,000 cargo ATMs
per annum (approximately 46 ATMs every 24h) implies a payload ranging from 115
tonnes at the very lower end (Boeing 737-300 weight max. 2,250 kilos) to a high
of 4,370 tonnes (Boeing 747F weight max. 95,250 kilos). As most air cargo
arrives in passenger planes it is doubtful if the airport would be handling a
steady flow of light shipments in the Boeing 737-300 class. Do we need this
level of detail? </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Exclusive
airfreight hubs exist to handle heavy goods shipments and therefore it is more
than likely that the airport would be handling anywhere between 2,000 to 3,000
tonnes per day. I don’t understand that point. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This implies haulage of between 120 to 166
HGV's assuming of course that each freight shipper was leaving with a full
load. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As this is unlikely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the true figure for HGV activity in and out
of Manston in any 24-hour period could be in the region of 400 to 500 HGV
movements</b>, not including aviation fuel tankers.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Such heavy road activity
seems likely to entail significant environmental and health issues, along with
the potential for major incidents. These issues are exacerbated by the fact
that Thanet is surrounded on 3 sides by sea such that there is no realistic
alternative to the limited existing road system. [ca 700 words]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">HERNE BAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">You
will have around 500 words to make your case.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The following are examples of issues which may be of concern.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You can use any of these – or you may have
your own issues to raise.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nor do your
comments need to focus only on Herne Bay.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>You do not need to write in technical language or use data.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">If
you do not wish to make an individual submission, your views can be represented
by registering as a member of another organisation, such as No Night
Flights.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">a.
PRE-APPLICATION CONSULTATION</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">I
would like the Planning Inspector to consider whether the consultation
adequately provided information to, and consulted the views of, the community
of Herne Bay.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The proposed flight path
for Manston passes directly over Herne Bay from the extreme west to east – and
the standard ½ mile variation from that line by aircraft takes in virtually the
whole of the town, a population of 40,000.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">INFORMATION:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Considering the scale of the proposed cargo
hub and the magnitude of impact communities, it is questionable whether RSP
took sufficient steps to ensure the maximum number of residents were aware of
the plans for Manston, or the consultation process, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Notices in media relied on the public
purchasing newspapers whose circulations are falling significantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>RSP claim in several parts of the
submission that they sent postcards to every household under the flight path by
mail; elsewhere they use the term ‘delivered’.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>These claims have been widely disputed by the residents of Herne Bay.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The ‘delivery’ of postcards omitted whole
streets and there is no evidence of any postcards having been posted to
addresses in the town. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As a result just 90 Herne Bay residents
being identified in the RSP Consultation Report has having attended the
consultation events – 0.225% of the population.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In a letter following the consultation
events the local authority for Herne Bay, Canterbury City Council, expressed
“concerns regarding the adequacy of the consultation process”. (Doc 6.2
Consultation Report Appx46).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Further,
at the Consultation Event held in Herne Bay, conflicting information was given
to residents on many topics, including: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>proposed flight paths – statements
including that aircraft would not pass over the town</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">-<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>night flights – some RSP representatives
stating there would be none and others stating that they would be inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">b.
NIGHT FLIGHTS </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">In
view of the considerable impact on Herne Bay of night flights (restricted at
other airports) I would like the Planning Inspector to establish the true
proposals of RSP.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Night flights are included
in the application, yet RSP and its guest speakers (including a local MP)
continue to deny in public that they will happen.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Meanwhile the majority of UK cargo-specific
flights are night flights and air cargo operations across Europe are heavily dependent
upon them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The 17,100 cargo flights
predicted for Manston would therefore suggest over 8500 night flights.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Further, an overall noise quota of 3028 PC
points per annum means that there could be many more night flights. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, RSP’s Environmental Assessment
(table 9.1) bases its ‘worst case’ assumptions on only 8 flights per night
(2920 per annum).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">c.
NOISE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">I
would like the Planning Inspector to assess how accurately RSP estimates the
impact on Herne Bay of the proposals.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>RSPs noise impact assessments (2.4 Noise Mitigation Plan) are based on
average noise, which it is now widely understood does not reflect the true
impact on a community, especially that from frequent night flights.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In a poll conducted in 2012 regarding
proposed night flights at Manston, 181 Herne Bay residents responded, of whom
150 were against (83%), almost all citing noise/lack of sleep as the
reason.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">I am also concerned to read that RSP
proposes to reverse the historic 30:70 split between the east and west ends of
the runway (so that 70% and not 30% of flights pass over Herne Bay).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This will have implications not only for
Herne Bay and Beltinge but also for the villages between Herne Bay and the
airport such as St Nicholas and Minster, which is adjacent to the airport. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The
three locations selected by RSP to establish current normal noise levels are
all subject to higher than average levels of ambient noise (48-60dB daytime and
45-48dB night) and thus do not reflect the average for Herne Bay which is
largely residential.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>OBS2 Beltinge is on
a 200m wide strip of land between the A299 dual carriageway and the main
high-speed railway line.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>OBS3 Avenue of
Remembrance is one of the two central thoroughfares through the town.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>OBS 4 Studio Herne Bay (Studd Hill) is
adjacent to the main high-speed railway line.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Even
given that, the difference claimed by RSP between current average noise and the
projected levels resulting from the airport – ranging from +0.1-1.0 dB does not
reflect the true impact of the proposal.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Over Herne Bay the estimated height of aircraft is 2400 feet – at which
(NATS statistics) aircraft noise is at 66-80 dB.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The World Health Organisation statistics on
aircraft noise describes ‘moderate community annoyance’ at a threshold of 50 dB
and ‘severe annoyance’ at 55 dB.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Add to
that the estimate of 20 or more night flights and the effect on sleep, daily
life, health and education will be more than ‘severe’.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">d.
TRAFFIC & TRANSPORT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">I
would like the Planning Inspector to consider whether the application addresses
the real extent of impact on local road networks of the proposed scale of
operation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The proposal forecasts from
9,903 HGV movements in year 2 to 64,906 annual HGV movements by year 20.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yet East Midlands Airport says it has 182,500
HGV movements a year and RSP forecasts Manston will handle more freight than
East Midlands.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The proposal
documentation shows little detailed consideration of the need for additional
road capacity beyond the immediate surrounding of the airport.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, the M2 and A299 – the only fast
access route to Herne Bay and Thanet – are both only two-lane and already busy
with HGV traffic.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">e.
ECONOMIC IMPACT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Herne
Bay experienced a significant economic downturn typical of former holiday
resorts from the 1960s onwards – becoming the ‘poor relation’ to Canterbury and
Whitstable.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the past five years, the
town has seen a marked economic revival, thanks to increasing numbers of day
visitors and inward investment in leisure facilities including leisure
shopping.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Rises in property prices have
followed, buoyed also by an overspill effect from London investors following
the success of Whitstable.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This new
prosperity would be severely threatened by 24-hour aircraft noise and heavy
traffic.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The
contour below seems like a bit of a random addition?</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> They will publish your name (though this can be kept
out if you are a member of a group).<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They will keep your address confidential</span></div>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> See reports by Falcon Consultancy, Avia Solutions,
York Aviation and Altitude Aviation Advisory.</span></div>
</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> Viz: Heritage Action Zone designation</span></div>
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<div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> Notably Falcon Consultancy, Avia Solutions, York
Aviation and Altitude Aviation Advisory</span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> See especially the Applicant’s plans to include the
so-called Northern Grass within the DCO footprint, which the applicant himself
concedes is not required as part of a functioning airport.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Though the applicant says his interests are
strictly confined to aviation, previous speculative inquiry by one of RSP’s
principal Directors indicates the need for careful examination.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> June 2018.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>See
esp. paragraph 1.39: see https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/714106/airports-nps-new-runway-capacity-and-infrastructure-at-airports-in-the-south-east-of-england-web-version.pdf</span></div>
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<div id="ftn7" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>CAA data shows
that at Luton 2,645 QC points translated into 7,450 night flights annually</span></div>
</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> Note that when Manston was operational, SEL readings
from the noise monitor atop the Grammar school consistently recorded levels
above 90dB. Data sets available – see also noise measurements considered by the
then airport consultative committee – see <span style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B96caduedt5sYXlmRHdJLThuWFE"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "calibri";">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B96caduedt5sYXlmRHdJLThuWFE</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> See 2011 noise contours available on line at
http://hernebaymatters.squarespace.com/nonightflights-blog/manston-aircraft-noise-maps.html</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>See CAA
document CAP1191</span></div>
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<div id="ftn11" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"> See footnote 1 to Table E3
inhttps://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002426-5.2-9%20-%20Environmental%20Statement%20-%20Volume%209%20-%202%20of%202%20-%20Appendix%209.1%20-%20Envirocheck%20Report%20-%20Part%202.pdf</span></div>
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<div id="ftn12" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;">
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002431-5.2-12%20-%20Environmental%20Statement%20-%20Volume%2012%20-%202%20of%202%20-%20Appendix%2010.1,%20Appendix%20B,%20Part%202.pdf</span></div>
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<div id="ftn13" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is the
infamous “18 times a night” awakening metric described in Section 12.6 of
Chapter 12 Noise and Vibration.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Following repeated challenges, RSP claimed this value “has been informed
by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">emerging</b> [emphasis added] best
practice and research into aircraft induced sleep disturbance, namely research
undertaken by Basner et al (2006)”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But
as RSP had later to confess, the Basner work points to a figure of 14 not 18 –
and it is unclear there is any academic consensus or official endorsement for
the “18 times a night” assertion. </span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/NNF/NNFbrief-v3-online.docx" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[14]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>See
documentation already submitted to PINS regarding contemporary sound and other
verbatim recordings of these claims </span></div>
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Mitigation Plan submitted with the DCO application</span></div>
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heard and causes small changes in behaviour and/or attitude, e.g. turning up
television; speaking more loudly, having to close windows for some of the time
because of the noise. Potential for some reported sleep disturbance. Affects
the acoustic character of the area such that there is a perceived change in the
quality of life.'</span></div>
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pollutants from road transport http://ec.europa.eu/
environment/air/transport/road.htm</span></div>
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https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/heritage-action-zones/</span></div>
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https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=15740</span></div>
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inhttps://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002426-5.2-9%20-%20Environmental%20Statement%20-%20Volume%209%20-%202%20of%202%20-%20Appendix%209.1%20-%20Envirocheck%20Report%20-%20Part%202.pdf</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-82871853076040456872018-08-22T17:38:00.000+01:002018-08-22T17:54:35.965+01:00DCO accepted for examinationThere was jubilation in the Airport Supporters last week when National Planning accepted the DCO application for "Examination". Does this mean aviation is returning to Manston? In a word <b>NO</b>.<br />
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What is now going to happen is people can register from the 3rd September 2018 so that they can submit their views to the examining inspector(s).<br />
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Every aspect of the application will be examined and questioned including whether there is enough money and whether there is a viable market for an Airfreight Hub.<br />
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<b><u>Money</u></b><br />
Even as they accepted the application for examination PINS wrote to RSP and warned them that their financial statement was underwhelming with many gaps included.<br />
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This clearly shows that PINS is not accepting that RSP have sufficient money available as all they confirm is they have drawn down £1/2M and as their parent company is based in Belize there is no proof that they have the £15M they say they have said would be sufficient to buy the land and Blight claims.<br />
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At no place in the 11500 pages of submission have RSP elected to provide a solid business plan which covers all the costs (including payment of interest and running costs) nor indeed do they actually state where the freight will be coming from. Nor indeed do they show how much each landing fee will be and how that interacts with the running costs of the Freight Hub. To give you an idea of the costs involved in 1995 the local MP stated the running costs where in the region of £7M a year.<br />
So PINS has accepted that to be an Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) it is only necessary to have 5000 planes land and take off in a year. which is just under 14 a day. So how does that compare to its previous operational air transport movements<br />
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Best year (under Tony Freudman) 3333 of which airfreight 730, airfreight being 2 planes a day. For those that do not remember Planestation went into receivership in 2005 and Infertil bought the remnants from the official receiver umped £40-50M and still failed to make a profit. So how many flights did Infertil manage?<br />
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Rather less than 500 planes a year it seems, no wonder Infertil couldn't make a profit.</div>
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So now we are in 2018 and the airport has been closed 4 years and the airfreight market has moved on what is different?</div>
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The airfreight market has changed however the changes do not favour Manston. The airfreight tonnage has remained somewhat stable for the last 10 years at 2.3M tonnes but how it has carried has markedly changed. Tony Freudmann has committed the DCO business plan at dedicated air freighters and has stated, on more than one occasion, that they aren't interested in competing with Heathrow. So any talk about supporting UK Plc until the third runway is built is just that, talk.</div>
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Heathrow today handles 67% of all airfreight coming into the UK but 95% of that is carried in the belly of passenger planes a market that RSP have said they will not compete with. So to look at reality they will attempt to compete with the two largest airports carrying freight, that is Stanstead and the East Midlands, who between them carried just under 500,000 tonnes in 2012, equal to 21% of the total. Remember Heathrow carried 67% of the airfreight.</div>
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Now that only leaves 12% divided into every other airport in the UK.</div>
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What makes the situation even more perilous for a new player in the market is the way the market is now moving. Airfreight is up to 4x more expensive that lorry or sea freight so many freight forwarders are pulling out of the dedicated air freighter market to belly hold freight on passenger planes has meant that Freighter only movements have dropped.</div>
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In 2000 there were over 100,000 freighter Atms which declined to around 55,000 and has remained at that level whilst airfreight has remained fairly consistently around the 2,300,000 tonnes for more than 10 years. Proving that freight is transferring over to a more subsidised route. Heathrow expects this trend to continue and they expect to take more of this market in the future.</div>
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Much is made in the report done for RSP on why Manston is a good opportunity but neglects to explain how they would capture any of the Freighter only market when they were unable to capture more of the market when people actually used freighters to transport their goods and now that market has deteriorated by 40% they stand even less chance especially when Stanstead and East Midlands are spending money to expand their offering. They have a massive advantage being near the centre of the motorway network without the pinch point of the Dartford River crossing. Even Gatwick cannot compete as it is considered too far from the London Hubs.</div>
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The concentration of air freight (at Heathrow) presents a significant barrier to a newcomer trying to start from scratch in a declining market, especially when the major airports already have the cargo infrastructure in place with excess capacity still available.</div>
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More on the viability <a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.com/2018/07/viability-of-manston.html">http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.com/2018/07/viability-of-manston.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.com/2017/08/is-reopening-manston-as-freight-hub.html">http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.com/2017/08/is-reopening-manston-as-freight-hub.html</a></div>
<u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u><br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-79652602202346903322018-07-05T19:45:00.002+01:002018-09-21T16:35:34.300+01:00Viability of ManstonFollowing on from the last post the decision as to which option to choose still remains on whether there is evidence that an airport is viable at Manston up to the end of this Local Plan period which is 2031. The choice that Members at TDC have is option 1<br />
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This is the safer option according to officers but would still mean farmland being given over to land for housing. 1000 at Birchington, 1000 at Westgate and various other sites in Thanet along with 2500 on the brownfield site of the former Kent International Airport. Then there is Option 2<br />
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This option retains Manston as a brownfield site as currently there isn't a DCO in progress as it was <b>withdrawn as failing to meet the requirements for a NSIP</b>, but moves the housing to Birchington 1600, Westgate 2000, WX/Haine Road 1200 more ad other village sites.<br />
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TDC officers believe that there are risks in choosing this option primarily because there is no report on Manston written since 2014 that shows aviation being viable.<br />
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Since 2014 there have been 2 TDC reports about aviation and one TDC report about the finances of Riveroak. There has been a KCC report on viability, and 2 viability reports commissioned by Stone Hill Park the owners of the land. Here is a summary of them<br />
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For those with the perseverance here are the reports summarised in more detail<br />
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The first is the HM Government report into choosing increased capacity in the South of England and in which (despite the previous owners Infratil submitting a report) Manston effectively gets kicked into the long grass. The red is NNF's comments.<br />
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Then comes the Falcon report which said in summary that Manston would not be viable under any circumstance during the period 2014-2031 and during the period of consultation the airport closed with the loss of 144 jobs.<br />
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Next Riveroak tried to convince the administration (under Labour) to let them become a CPO partner and despite much handwringing TDC refused, The MP for North Thanet demanded Price Waterhouse Cooper conduct an examination of the process and despite some criticism of TDC found Riveroak to be unsuitable as a CPO partner<br />
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Kent County Council, who had paid out much tax revenue during the period 1998-2010 final washed their hands of Manston in March 2015 with this summary<br />
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In May of 2015 the local elections were dominated by the support for Manston with various parties saying "vote for me and we will reopen the airport" however many of the electorate being sceptical of politicians promises decided to give Chris Wells and the UKIP party and they duly swept to power.<br />
Once hit by the reality of governing they realised that Riveroak were very poor and proving they were actually viable so Chris took the plunge and started the whole process again including a TDC sponsored report from Avia on the viability of aviation at Manston.<br />
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Because of the sensitive nature of the report from Avia the UKIP administration decided to ask for public responses and when these were received Avia were asked to produce a final assessment which was published in 2017<br />
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Riveroak had by this time decided to forego the CPO route and to use the more demanding DCO route and to argue that reopening Manston would be a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) and had commissioned Dr Sally Dixon to "prove" Manston was viable. This was done in a series of consultation exercises and reports however TDC can only use reports they themselves have commissioned. This means Sally Dixon's work cannot be used and neither can the following reports 2x SHP and one by No Night Flights as posted below.<br />
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<b>Bob Bayford and the Tory party should by rights only be making decisions on Land Use based on evidence however it appears that "But Airport" votes seem to be the deciding factor as on the 2nd July 2018 Cabinet endorsed Option 2. This will probably lead to the Ministry at examination finding the Local plan as unsafe.</b><br />
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<b>And last but not least from the executive summary "No Room for Late Arrivals"</b><br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-39098301713299360162018-06-23T15:52:00.002+01:002018-06-23T16:11:12.783+01:00The new Thanet Local PlanOn the 2nd July 2018 the Tory Cabinet meet to discuss what to do with the delayed Local Plan, The agenda for this meeting has been published <b><u><a href="file:///C:/Users/Finance%20Centre/Dropbox/manston/local%20council/Cabinet%20meeting%202nd%20July%202018.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></u></b> however it is 459 pages so I have attempted to condense this into something a bit more practical.<br />
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Why is this important to the people of Thanet? It is important because it sets the agenda for the development and growth of Thanet until 2031 and has been delayed since 2011 which has led to the loss of farmland to housing simply because without a 5 year supply of building land any developer being refused planning permission will invariably win on appeal.<br />
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On page 7 the 2 options are set out<br />
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<u>Option 1</u> (<b>which is the option the officers recommend</b>)<br />
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It would also vindicate the UKIP administration under Chris Wells which was voted down by 35 members comprising 21 Tories and 14 ex-UKIP defectors.<br />
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<u>Option 2</u><br />
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There are several issues and risks associated with option 2 and to highlight these risks annex 3 has been added and will be mentioned in a minute<br />
Firstly the legal protection EC04, which was included in the last Local plan and selected as a saved policy will be removed. It is removed because Thanet holds NO evidence that Manston could be viable as an airport. This will be replaced with "text that recognises the existing (past) (* author's addition) use of the Airport.<br />
Clearly the planners aren't happy with Policy EC04 as they continue "<b>The statement regarding existing use is NOT a policy statement, it is simply a recognition of the current planning status of the site This also means Policy EC04 (and other airport-related policies) would NOT be continued with equivalent policies in the new Local Plan."</b><br />
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In plain English you cannot have a policy without evidence that the policy is sound and this is reflected in Annex 3 Risks<br />
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<b>In plain English there is a high chance that if option 2 is adopted and the DCO fails then the plans that Stone Hill Park have already published will happen along with the other allocations. In other words the 3700 houses in the plans submitted will happen ON TOP of the Local Plan</b><br />
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Further this acceptance of option 2 would also mean the removal of the 2500 houses from the Manston site and redistribution to alternate sites as referred to is the document on page 8.<br />
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Bearing in mind the difficulty the Planning Department had and the constraints they were working under what does this mean for the residents of Thanet and especially the villages?<br />
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Let me make this clear this means Birchington will have 1600 homes, Westgate 2000 and land to the south of Westwood along the Haine Road an additional 1200 (currently over 3000 have already been given Planning Permission some on allocated sites and some granted on appeal because there is no Local Plan). So what does this mean for these sites?<br />
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<b><u>Westgate</u></b><br />
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<u><b>Birchington</b></u><br />
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<b><u>Westwood/Haine Road</u></b><br />
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So what does this mean for Thanet?<br />
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To stroke the egos of 35 Councillors who are supporting an airport which has never turned a profit in 20 years, has had over 100 £million invested in it and to support a failed airport owner who heads a group based in the tax haven of Belize with their DCO, which incidentally failed at the 1st hurdle of even being accepted as a DCO, the people of Thanet are having their village life disrupted for ever to chase a dream.<br />
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What does this mean for Stone Hill Park who actually own the land?<br />
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In plain English whether the DCO succeeds (doubtful) or not their plans will be shelved until 2031. My opinion is they will not take that lightly and their representation to the Ministry for Housing, Community, and Local Democracy will be "interesting".<br />
<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-64521678557854246342017-12-28T18:59:00.000+00:002017-12-29T18:07:19.971+00:00shelling outI published a blog on the 29th March 2017 (<a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/so-who-owns-riveroak-strategic-partners.html" target="_blank">link here</a>) detailing the facts that the ownership of the company that is applying for a Development Consent Order (DCO) on the former Manston site is rather murky and little has changed since. So to clarify where we are today as the DCO, which was due to be placed before National Planning in the Autumn 2017, has been delayed yet again.<br />
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The Company, Riveroak Strategic Partners Ltd (RSP Ltd), seems on the face of it to be a Special Purpose Enterprise/ Shell Company with the true ownership hidden away in Belize. See diagram below.<br />
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As you can see the ownership is 90% M.I.O. Investments held incognito in the British Territory of Belize. Why you might wonder?<br />
"Said companies are legally mandated to carry out any international
transactions as long as they do it by the book. They have certain
privileges too, and one of them includes being allowed not to pay taxes
within the country of operation. In addition to that, such an
institution is not required to disclose the names and contacts of its
owners or the intricate details of its operations." <a href="http://www.worldoffshorebanks.com/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-a-belize-offshore-company.php" target="_blank">Link here</a><br />
From SHP's solicitors letter dated 13/11/2017<br />
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It is also clear that Stone Hill Park (SHP) is clearly losing patience with the ongoing DCO saga which is interfering with the aims of the owners of SHP, Trevor Cartner and Chris Musgrave, who would like this sorry saga to go away.<br />
From Pinsent Mason's letter to National Planning on 13/11/2017<br />
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It is also clear that RSP is sailing close to the wind with Companies House as their recent declaration concerning who exerts "Significant Control" is somewhat confusing.<br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-59657868934878653132017-12-02T19:02:00.000+00:002017-12-02T19:31:50.842+00:00Finally the light dawnsBriefly, when Ann Gloag shut the airport in 2014 various groups formed to campaign to get the airport reinstated. The main groups were "Supporters of Manston Airport (SuMA)" run by a small group let by Ruth Brackstone-Bailey. The other main supporter group was "Save Manston Airport (SMA)" set up by Keith Churcher and Daniel Light. Over the 3 years since the leadership of SMA changed and then after an internal civil war reverted back to Dan & Keith with the others forming a new group "Save Manston Airport Association (SMAa)" under Beau Webber and John Pritchard.<br />
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Recently it has become apparent that both SuMA and SMA have lost confidence in Riveroak Strategic Partners (RSP), still run by Anthony Freudmann, especially after RSP failed to convince the public at their "consultations" and the mauling Dr. Sally Dixon received over her "proof" a cargo hub was a viable option for Manston. It didn't help that Dr Dixon used two York Aviation reports to reinforce her "proof". This proof was promptly savaged by the original authors who said "Dr Dixon failed to understand the conclusions of our reports and misrepresented the conclusions".<br />
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Stone Hill Park (SHP) have altered their plans for the site to include 1199m of runway as heritage with up to 2000M not to be built beside, which means that those who support aviation get what they want as well as those who do not want a 24/7 cargo Hub not getting a polluting, noisy unprofitable land grab.<br />
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Finally both SuMA and SMA have come to the same conclusion isolating SMAa as a blinkered group supporting Freudmann at the expense of both coastal towns of Ramsgate and Herne Bay.<br />
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Then SuMA posted this<br />
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It does seem that finally it has dawned on some airport supporters that RSP's plans are impossible to believe and with the DCO not being submitted in November as promised due to doubts about their "consultation" process people are beginning to wonder if they will ever submit a DCO.<br />
Stone Hill Park certainly believe their DCO is flawed and RSP know it.<br />
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It is worth mentioning here that some "die hard" supporters are using the word traitor towards both Keith and Ruth but then abusing people is par for the course when you go against the "cult" of Manston.<br />
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Further developments are that several "investors" are circling around RSP tasting blood in the water. It is doubtful these are anything other than chancers however they have a certain cabal within the UKIP ranks who sense an opportunity in delaying the Local Plan because they believe that a change of use from "Aviation Only" to "Mixed use" would price the land out of the wallets of these other chancers.<br />
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Dale seems to be a middle man however watching him comment on Manston Pickle's Facebook page you might be forgiven for thinking he was a child.<br />
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This gentleman seems to be a non-starter seeing as he has just got out of jail after serving half of a 5 year jail sentence for committing a fraud. Details <a href="http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/220k-con-gang-said-victim-4721629" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>here</b></span></u></a><br />
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It does seem now the blinkered support for Freudmann seems to only remain in the few that reside on the SMAa Facebook page as well as the Tory MP's Gale and Mackinlay along with the Councillors (Tory) who seem to want the Local plan to fail which will mean the Tories will increase the number of houses that have to be supported on the Local Plan, which unfortunately will have to go on Green Field sites.<br />
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It doesn't however stop the abuse from continuing especially within SMAa and also on Paul Joseph Messenger's FB page. Whether he fails to monitor his own timeline or basically doesn't care doesn't matter as an elected official he is supposed to adhere to the Nolan Principles, something he probably has never read.<br />
This is the latest<br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-42187188142735841382017-11-26T18:11:00.000+00:002017-11-26T18:11:26.801+00:00Paul Joseph MessengerIt does seem that politics and campaigning seem to merge into farce at times and the current Ramsgate KCC Councillor, Paul Joseph Messenger, seems to be proving the point. Not content to be getting a regular pasting on We Love Ramsgate Facebook page (his words) he has decided to prove the point by agreeing that Southampton Airport is in a far better geographical position than Manston ever was.<br />
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He posted this on his timeline<br />
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Actually what this author actually said to him was this:<br />
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So I repeat 1. I am not against planes 2. I am against Freudmann. A man who was struck off as a practicing solicitor for misappropriation of his clients monies. A man who has <b>NEVER</b> run a successful airport and a man who has somewhat dubious business practices.<br />
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So all this "support" on your page is somewhat ironic seeing as all it does is give some rather dubious individuals the opportunity to insult this author. Is this really what you want to be remembered for, inciting abusive comments?<br />
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So let us use some facts to compare Manston and Southampton airports.<br />
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<b>Southampton </b><br />
In 1932 Southampton Corporation purchased the site and it became
Southampton Municipal Airport. By 1935, part of the site was being used
by the RAF and was briefly known as RAF Eastleigh before it became <b>RAF Southampton</b> in 1936. It passed back into civilian ownership in April 1946.<br />
During the 1950s a mainstay of business for the airport was the cross-channel car ferry service operated by Silver City Airways.<br />
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Donated to the war effort in 1915 it became an RN station until being transferred to the RAF in 1917. After WW2 it was taken over by the USAAF until circa 1959 when the RAF took it back. In 1959 Silver City Airways had an enclave operating a cross channel car ferry service.<br />
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<b>Southampton</b><br />
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<b>Manston</b><br />
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Unfortunately Manston was bankrupted in 2005 when the money ran out (and who was in charge Anthony Freudmann)<br />
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<b>Southampton</b><br />
The airport lies in Eastleigh at the junction of the M27 and M3 right next to a railhead and Parkway station. The catchment area exceeds 3M people covering Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Basingstoke and numerous small towns on the South Coast. Although there is a rival airport at Bournemouth Hurn there are far more routes at Southampton.<br />
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<b>Manston</b><br />
The airport lies at the end of the Thanet Way 35 miles away from the nearest Motorway. The catchment area comprises the North Kent Coastal Towns of Medway, Whitstable, Herne Bay along with Canterbury and Ashford. At its best there were few routes for passengers and probably the most successful was KLM with its Cityhopper service(which at best was only 50% full in a 78 seat Fokker aircraft. There is no dedicated Rail Service.<br />
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In summary Southampton has been successful simply because it is better located, with better transport links, and a far bigger catchment area.<br />
Manston simply cannot compete with everything Southampton has however despite what Messenger says This author isn't promoting Southampton over Manston because there simply is no comparison.<br />
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For all those that wonder whether airplanes are the problem then think on these taken from the garden.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>To make it 100% clear Freudmann is the issue not Manston however using the position of KCC Councillor to smear someone who simply has a difference of opinion is abuse.</b></span>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-83775004818082036712017-08-17T20:42:00.001+01:002017-08-18T17:42:44.494+01:00Why Manston will not be a cargo hub anytime soonFollowing on from the last blog <a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/is-reopening-manston-as-freight-hub.html" target="_blank"><b>LINK</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is interesting as to how this compares to the report compiled by Dr. Sally Dixon who it seems also has a connection to Cranfield but fails to take this report into account when writing her report on the future of a cargo hub at Manston.</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">"From
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">"I<b>n December 2003, the UK Government’s ‘Future of Air Transport White
Paper’ recognised the national importance of developing passenger and freight
services at EMA and predicted that the airport could be handling over 12
million passengers and 2.5 million metric tonnes of cargo on 60,000 cargo
flights a year by 2030"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Current airfreight at EMA is almost 300,000 metric tonnes(as of 2013) so capacity is still available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Whereas Heathrow and
Gatwick (and, to a lesser extent, Manchester) are relatively capacity and slot
constrained and have strict operating conditions that prevent full 24-hour
flight operations, <b>East Midlands and Stansted currently have spare capacity and
EMA has an unrestricted 24-hour operating licence</b>. This allows EMA to serve
passenger aircraft during the day and freight aircraft at night. Heathrow and
Gatwick on the other hand, owing to the absence of slots and more restricted
hours of operation, see virtually all of their air cargo arrive in the holds of
scheduled passenger services. <b>In addition, East Midlands and Stansted offer
further advantages for cargo operators. Both are located in more rural areas of
the country where land is cheaper and relatively fewer people are affected by
aircraft noise;</b> both are surrounded by greenfield sites which could be made
available for future expansion (subject to planning permission); both are
located near major trunk roads for ease of delivery and onward distribution and
both are now owned and operated by the same company – Manchester Airports Group
(MAG).<b> EMA has the added advantage of being centrally located within the UK
near the intersection of major north-south and east-west trunk roads."</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">So to be clear the East Midlands airport operates an unrestricted 24 hour licence handling passengers during the day and freight during the night. East Midlands and Stanstead offer a significant advantage as they operate in a rural environment (unlike Manston which has towns at both ends of the runway albeit Herne Bay is further away than Ramsgate). Both EMA and Stanstead are located near major trunk roads, EMA also has the advantage of being centrally located near the intersection of Major Trunk Roads.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The history of the East Midlands is eerily similar to Manston but it comes as no surprise to realise that EMA has much more going for it that ever Manston had bearing in mind where Manston is located compared to EMA and for RSP and Sally Dixon to ignore Manston's geographical location is bemusing. It is true however you get what you pay for in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>The origins
of aviation at EMA can be traced back to 1916 when Castle Donington airfield
was established to serve the needs of 38 Squadron in their defence of Midlands’
airspace during World War One. Abandoned after the declaration of the
Armistice, the site was subsequently redeveloped as a military airfield with a
hard-surfaced runway during the Second World War before being closed for a
second time in 1946</b>. In late 1947, the site was acquired by the UK’s Ministry
of Civil Aviation as part of the new National Airport Plan which sought to
concentrate passenger services at a few key airports (see Sealy, 1976). By the
mid-1950s it was apparent that the existing municipal airport serving the East
Midlands at Burnaston near Derby was becoming obsolete as the grass runways
could not support the weight of the new post-war commercial aircraft that were
being introduced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The need for a
replacement facility was first articulated by the Corporation of Nottingham
who, together with a consortium of Local Authorities, formed a Joint Airport
Committee (JAC). After evaluating a number of potential sites, the JAC decided
that the abandoned airfield at Castle Donington should be developed as
Burnaston’s successor (Walker, 2005). It was thought that the site offered
significant development potential <b>as it lay roughly equidistant between the
region’s three major cities of Leicester, Derby and Nottingham</b>, boasted
favourable flying conditions and, <b>most importantly, was adjacent to the
proposed London-Leeds M1 motorway,</b> the first section of which opened in
November 1959. From its inception, the new facility was promoted as a ‘Motorway
Airport’ with the supporting local authorities demonstrating an early
appreciation of the future strategic importance of fast, easy and efficient
road access to the airport’s commercial future (Rowley, 1965). The initial
planning application was submitted in 1960, construction commenced in spring
1964 and the new East Midlands Airport (EMA) opened for commercial civilian
operations on April 1st 1965.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It does seem surprising that someone who gained some qualifications from Cranfield seems to totally ignore the advantages that EMA has compared to the disadvantages that beset Manston.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">What of Stanstead Airport? Well here are the key facts that Stanstead advertise and it is uncanny how many seem to have made it into Sally Dixon's report especially the equine information.</span></div>
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stands can simultaneously accommodate 4 x A380, 3 x B747-8F, 1 x B747-400F
and 1 X B767-300</span></li>
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runway offers full intercontinental capability and provides full CAT IIIb
ILS protection</span></li>
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slots London Stansted is the only major London airport with capacity to
support the immediate growth of the UK’s aviation sector</span></b></li>
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makes it ideal for combi carriers wishing to supplement bellyhold capacity
with maindeck freighter traffic</span></li>
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location allows reduced flying time from Asia, Europe and Africa</span></li>
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excess of £8bn in trade value annually</span></li>
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companies on-site</span></li>
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bloodstock sector with Newmarket just 30 miles away, Stansted is the
primary UK gateway for some of the world’s finest race horses and polo
ponies</span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> So far from cargo slots being restricted it seems that with 120,000 spare slots available it does seem awfully strange that Sally Dixon fails to note this in her extensive report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally it does seem somewhat odd that the Save Manston Airport association publish a "myth Buster" when the only myth's that need busting are those put into the ether by Tony Freudmann. I do wonder why they feel it necessary to defend themselves against the lies put out by RSP but each to their own. The only thing SMAa are good at is abusive comments and acting as some sort of cult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point one</b>: It is irrelevant what SMAa want it is RSP and the Freight Forwarders that will determine night flights. SMAa will not be running an airport if it re-opens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point two</b>: As SMAa has failed to publish accounts since inception who knows where the money comes from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point 3</b>: If it is ever submitted. Promises were made over a year ago and the timetable has slipped ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point 4</b>: No prospective suitor has ever produced verifiable proof they have the money to re-open Manston and that includes any fronted by Tony Freudmann.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point 5</b>: This is funny as they have never supported anyone other than the Tories, in fact they have abused both Labour and UKIP on a regular basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point 6</b>: London City airport isn't a cargo hub. The two main Cargo hubs outside of the big two both handle freight during the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Point 7</b>: RSP have no aviation experience bar Tony Freudmann who failed miserably in 2005 losing many local shareholders vast sums of money.</span></div>
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During the last 15 years every owner of Manston has tried
but failed to make a profit from the freight business and despite money
invested business has failed to take off (pardon the pun). Infertil Limited
purchased Manston from the failed EUjet/Planestation/Wiggins group in 2005 and
over the next 9 years invested £40-£50M and still failed to turn a profit. They
threw in the towel and asked Price Waterhouse Cooper to find a buyer and in 22
months <b>NOT ONE</b> buyer from the aviation world came forward. Eventually they sold
it to Ann Gloag’s Lothian Shelf for a £1 and all the debts.</div>
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What is airfreight and what is carried is a question asked.
Airfreight is exceptionally expensive (unless subsidised by being carried in
the belly of passenger planes) compared to road freight and cargo ships. So it
is reserved for expensive “just in time” goods such as electronics and
pharmaceuticals, and low value flowers and vegetables from 3<sup>rd</sup> world
countries where “time is of the essence”. </div>
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During those years airfreight at Manston has only managed
1%-2% of the total UK airfreight business. </div>
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To put this
into context total freight in the UK is around 500 Million tonnes and
airfreight is a miniscule 2.3Million tonnes (1/2 of 1%) and Manston achieved at
its busiest 32240 Tonnes (1.38% of airfreight, .006% of Total freight)</div>
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Manston has tried and failed to attract the dedicated
freighters which are handled more efficiently at freight Hubs such as East
Midlands, Stanstead, Luton and latterly at Southend all of which have spare
capacity both now and into the future. “...The London Airports together
currently have 40-50% spare capacity available”. In 2016 Heathrow brought in
65% of all airfreight (95% in the belly of passenger planes) leaving just 835000
tonnes for every other airport in the UK to share out. RSP propose to take
500-600 thousand tonnes (That is 72% of the available freighter market) and
that from a standing start.<br />
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The question then becomes why are those airports much more
successful in attracting the freight business and why hasn’t Manston managed in
the last 15 years? The answer is geography. Any freighter bringing in cargo has
a choice. Land at Manston 60 miles away from the M25 and negotiate the Dartford
river crossing or add 10 minutes flying to Stanstead or Luton or 15 minutes to
East Midlands where there are major motorway links, Road links and central
distribution hubs to complement the airports. I have ignored Heathrow as has
RSP as the cost of transhipping freight is subsidised by passengers which is
why 65% of all airfreight goes to Heathrow.</div>
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When Manston was operational they handled about 2 freighters
a week sometimes less, mainly African produce and it is hard to see how they
would be able to attract business unless they cut the landing costs again which
seems to be the only way they could attract business. Listening to those that
worked there it becomes apparent that most freighters left empty and without refueling because there were airports with export freight and cheaper fuel.</div>
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There is a series of reports by Dr. Sally Dixon which paint
a far more upbeat prospect for Manston however this is based on World Wide
expansion of freight which doesn’t relate at all to the UK which at the time of
writing has achieved 2.3 Million tonnes of freight consistently for every year
from 2007 to 2017. Dr Sally Dixon believes that much export freight is loaded
into Lorries and goes out of the country to the near continent to be loaded
onto aircraft. The report explains this by saying there is a lack of freight
capacity in the UK which is complete nonsense. (See above). Since 1999 there
have been many promotional forecasts, the only consistency is that they all
failed to achieve what they promised. </div>
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In 2010
Freighter Air Transport movements (ATM’s) totaled 51000 and by 2015 this had
increased to 55000 movements and increase of 1.5% per year. The Department of
Transport forecast this to grow to 60000 movements by 2050 which equates to
just ¼% per year. In other words it will be flatlined for 35 years and this may
even be optimistic if more cargo is shipped in the belly of passenger planes.<br />
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"The UK demand for all air freight remained flat from 2003 to 2013, furthermore, the UK totals for 2015 (2,299,000 tonnes) and 2016 (2,385,000 tonnes) confirm that pattern has been maintained over at least the last 13 years. The contribution by Manston showed no growth and hovered between 1.2% and 1.5% of all airfreight. It was a<b> minor player</b> in the freight market throughout its operation.<br />
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CAA statistics show the split between the quantity by weight of incoming (known as ‘set-down’) and outgoing (‘pick-up’) cargo. It shows there was a highly skewed imbalance in favour of import over export tonnage.<br />
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99% of freight was carried by non-UK operators.<br />
92% of freight was set-down<br />
7% was pick-up<br />
This imbalance would have severely affected the efficiency and profitability of carriers. This picture suggests that there was a lack of UK market demand to ‘export’ freight by air from Manston or that other operational factors were having an impact.<br />
In 2013 the airfreight handled at Manston was 29,306 tonnes. Analysis of CAA statistics shows this was carried via 511 dedicated freight aircraft ATMs. On average therefore each ATM accounted for<br />
57.4 tonnes of cargo. On the assumption that there are equal numbers of inbound and outbound ATMs it is possible to derive the average payload of each given the recorded set-down and pick-up tonnages. On this basis the average ‘set-down’ payload was 106.4 tonnes; and the average pick-up payload was a mere 8.5 tonnes. In other words set-down aircraft were arriving heavily laden but, in many cases, departing empty." * report by The Ramsgate Society<br />
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What about the planes used to carry Freight<br />
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"The freight ‘workhorse’ Boeing 747-400F requires a take-off field length ranging from 9,250 feet to 10,950 feet (depending on range, payload and overall weight). This poses a serious problem for the future of Manston with its runway at 9029 feet in length. While it may be sufficient to land fully laden aircraft it is not capable of handling this market leading freight aircraft at maximum take-off weight. This puts Manston at a considerable commercial disadvantage compared to its competitor airports in the UK. Manston ranks only 11th in terms of the length of runway in the UK, and behind leading<br />
dedicated freighter traffic rivals East Midlands and Stansted. It makes it unattractive to air freight operators. The relatively short runway explains why, historically, there has been very little pick-up tonnage over previous years of operation undermining efficiency and contributing to a lack of any profitability."</div>
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So understand this we need to understand that most flights to Manston were full and most flights out were empty. In 2013 this for reference, there were 511 air freight ATMs at Manston, accounting for 29,306 tonnes of freight. The 747-400F can carry 105 tonnes so assuming most were full 300 flights either landed or took off with an average load of 95 tonnes.<br />
<b>The total annual UK weight of cargo carried by dedicated air freighters 715,000 tonnes (at 2016 levels source CAA);</b></div>
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Therefore assuming by year 6 RSP (Sally Dixon's figures) 10000 ATM's will be reached and assuming every flight landed full and left empty then by 2016 Manston would achieve a total tonnage of 475000 tonnes which is 2/3rds of the total tonnage of dedicated freighters. Absolute rubbish.<br />
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The Ramsgate Society has done extensive research into Manston and its problems however what seems to come out of this is someone is embellishing the true position. If you look at Sally Dixon's figures below they envisage a freighter carrying an average of 18 tonnes of cargo whereas a 747-400F can carry 106 Tonnes an absolutely massive difference.<br />
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The last point which will put the final nail into this
coffin is the cost of reinstating the airport. Various figures have been
bandied about but according to Dr. Beau Webber this is around £300M. As an
accountant and Financial Adviser for more than 25 years this business model
will make the airport noncompetitive and inflexible because this amount will
incur repayments of both Capital and Interest costs which landing fees and
ancillary business will have to cover before running costs. As an example check
out the Channel Tunnel which had similar issues and escaped from its financial dead
weight by going bankrupt.<br />
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God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-86066816439952547852017-03-31T18:35:00.000+01:002017-03-31T18:35:05.080+01:00RSP open and transparent NOTWell Riveroak Strategic Partners Ltd have provided a press release concerning their owners M.I.O Investments Limited and typically the ego stroking continues on SMAa however in the real world jaws have dropped and thoughts have turned to the scoring of their own goal. The press release is as follows:<br />
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<b>"We share your determination! The creation of RiverOak Strategic
Partners meets our long held commitment to have a UK operating company.
Our investors are represented on the RSP board by Nick Rothwell, Rico
Sykes and Gerard Heusler. M.I.O Investments Limited has been established
by our investors as a specific funding vehicle for their financial
interests in the Manston project, which is standard practice. M.I.O
Investments Limited is a company registered in the Commonwealth
territory of Belize.<br /> We have provided all required details of our
company ownership structure to Companies House and also informed the
Planning Inspectorate of the creation of RSP. Additional, comprehensive
details of our funding partners and investment arrangements will be
provided to PINS as part of the DCO application, providing solid
evidence of our ability to meet all of the financial obligations
associated with the acquisition, reopening and operation of the airport"</b><br />
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So why Belize?<br />
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To repeat:<br />
<b>Belize offers a high degree of privacy. Belize will not disclose its banking or fiscal information to any foreign party.</b><br />
<b>No tax at all</b><br />
<b>No reporting requirements.</b><br />
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<b>Well, Well, Well who owns MIO?</b> Who knows.<br />
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What do governments say about Belize as a tax haven?<br />
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<a href="http://www.knowyourcountry.com/belize1111.html" target="_blank">Link</a><br />
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What do TDC say about this? Well Chris Wells replied to an email by Andy McCulloch as follows:<br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span>On 30 Mar 2017, at 19:02, Andrew McCulloch wrote:</span><br /><span>In view of the attached are you still willing to go along with the fiction that the DCO is unfunded and that RSP have no money?</span></span><span><span><br /><br /><span>Andrew McCulloch</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span>Dear Andrew</span><br /><br /><span>I
understand Belize is one of 14 Caribbean nations named by the US as
“major money laundering” countries in the 2016 International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report (INCSR) released by the US State Department.</span></span><span><span><br /><br /><br /><span>According
to the report, a major money laundering country is defined as one
“whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving
significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics
trafficking”.</span><br /><span>The report notes that Belize is not a
major regional financial center but has a substantial offshore financial
sector. It also notes that Belize is a transshipment point for
marijuana and cocaine, and states that human trafficking is also a
concern for the country.”</span><br /><br /><span>What else would you like us to note?</span><br /><br /><span>Regards</span><br /><br /><span>Chris Wells</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span><span> Further from the press release</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br /><b>comprehensive
details of our funding partners and investment arrangements will be
provided to PINS as part of the DCO application</b><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span><span> Logically this is difficult to understand because shrouding the ownership of RSP Ltd in Belize secrecy doesn't make sense if at the same time you are providing "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b>comprehensive
details of our funding partners" </b>to the Planning Authorities.<br />
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<b> </b>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-45234021083704273102017-03-29T18:15:00.000+01:002017-03-30T18:56:49.596+01:00So who owns Riveroak Strategic PartnersStrangely it seems 90% of Riveroak Strategic Partners is owned by M.I.O Investments Limited which oddly isn't a real Limited Company (well one registered in England and Wales anyway). So who is in charge? It seems from a filing at Companies House on the 27th March 2017no one has significant control.<br />
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So at the recent Save Manston Association chin wag where Tony Freudmann , that bastion of honesty, spoke for 7 minutes on the recent departure of the American Riveroak Investments LLC, attempting to reassure the faithful that all was above board and that was all part of the big plan he failed to mention how the 10000 shares in Company <b>10269461 </b>RIVEROAK STRATEGIC PARTNERS LIMITED were to be allocated and so on the 23rd March 2017 they were duly allocated.<br />
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1000 shares have been allocated to Riveroak Manston Limited (so that Ltd company own 10% of the company and there are 3 directors and 4 shares yet to be allocated.<br />
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Now we have been here before with Pleasurama with the use of a company name selected to mimic a normal Ltd company registered in England and Wales, however there is no company of that name registered at Companies House. So Why?<br />
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It would seem that there is attempt to hide the 90% ownership of Riveroak Strategic Partners as the Partners seem to want to hide behind a smokescreen of offshore shell companies.<br />
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Why is the most pertinent question but I have no idea as they haven't actually decided on a plan for Manston (well if they have they aren't setting out their plan for scrutiny) neither have they explained where the money is coming from. I suspect MIO Investments Limited is a shell to hide the source of the funding.<br />
So what has their tame MP said about this obfuscation of ownership? well nothing really, I produce his latest statement below:<br />
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"Mr Paul Francis, who writes for this newspaper, is a competent
journalist bedevilled by a headline writer with an eye for
sensationalism rather than fact!<br />
A couple of weeks ago we were
treated to the front page suggestion that ' Development Plans Kill Off
Airport Hope'. <b> Last week we were told that ' RiverOak has pulled out of
Manston'.</b> Neither, as anyone who actually attended the recent Planning
Inspectorate hearings in Thanet Council Offices will know, is true.<br />
Thanet's Draft Local Plan is deeply flawed both in content and in
process and will be subjected to rigorous public scrutiny and, I
suspect, condemnation when it is considered by a planning inspector. The
proposals put forward by Ms Gloag's Lothian Shelf company are, as was
exposed by the planning inquiry, lightweight and lacking in substance.<br />
<b>It is correct that two of RiverOak's senior main Board Directors, Niall
Lawlor and George Yerrall, have left the RiverOak Corporation of
America. They have bought out that company's interests (at a million
bucks or so</b> not bad for a company that Mr Wells would like us to believe
has no money!) to establish RiverOak UK as a British enterprise with a
Head Office in London and to devote their entire energies to the re-
opening of Manston Airport. Hardly " pulling out of Manston"!<br />
While this paper's headline was landing on your doormats RiverOak was
hosting a breakfast briefing at the House of Commons, in the presence of
those who intend to finance the acquisition and rebuilding of the
airport via a Development Consent Order (DCO), for the Chairman and
members of the Transport Select Committee and other MPs. This event
detailed in terms the Company's intentions and the timelines for the
process that will lead to literal and economic take- off.<br />
Contrast that approach, if you will, with TDC's commissioning of a
report to get the Council out of the election pledge made by Cllr Wells
and the subsequent further 'study' allegedly being carried out by The
Disruptive Finance company (with whom Craig Mackinlay and I spoke about a
year ago) upon which Mr. Wells is now staking his County Council
election hopes.<br />
As I told the Planning Inspector recently we
shall, post- Brexit, need every inch of airport capacity in the South
East if we are to develop new markets in Asia and the Far East and to
build the economic success that we seek as a nation. Trying to re-
furnish an operational airport would have been a nightmare. With
adequate funding, which is now readily available to RiverOak UK, we
instead have the exciting prospect of creating, practically from
scratch, a brand new, world class, state-of- the-art freight hub and
subsequent passenger airport to serve the needs of UK Ltd. and to bring
business lost to mainland Europe back to Britain. That surely, is a
project that ought to have the full support of Government at every
level.<br />
One final comment. I am asked, occasionally, " what's in
it for you"? Apart from the satisfaction of securing the future of a
national asset for my Country I have, indeed, made one - and only one-
request of RiverOak. I have asked that the first aircraft to land again
at Manston, alongside a plane representing Sue Girdler's TG Aviation (in
memory of the founder of the firm, her Father, Ted) shall be a
Spitfire. This is a Battle of Britain that we have to win."<br />
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So what is the truth? Well who knows is the answer. Gale provides no truth of $1M or so paid to Riveroak Investments LLC just words. Well Lawlor and Yerrall have nothing to do with any USA companies therefore Riveroak Investments LLC aren't the mystery Investors and so far neither Freudmann or Gale have enlightened anyone. Smoke and Mirrors spring to mind.<br />
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I am not alone in wondering what is going on:<br />
"Either Sir Roger is very easy to bamboozle, or he thinks that we
are. <b>He's nattily conflated in his recent piece in the Thanet Extra the
company he calls ""RiverOak Corporation of America" with RiverOak, the
company set up by Mr Freudmann. He claims that "RiverOak" is<span class="text_exposed_show"> "hardly pulling out of Manston".</span></b><br />
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Well, he's wrong.<br />
We'll repeat it again.<br />
As Mr Yerrall, once of RiverOak Investment Corporation LLC (registered
in Delaware) said at the Planning Inquiry recently, he has left the US
company. Mr Lawlor has also left the US company. There is no link
between the US company and the new UK company, RiverOak Strategic
Partners. It's as plain as the nose on yer face - <b>Stephen DeNardo and
RiverOak Investment Corporation LLC have pulled out of the Manston
project. They're gorn. They have nothing to do with a future DCO
appliction for Manston. Yerrall and Lawlor and Freudmann are going it
alone.</b><br />
Interestingly, since the news broke that RSP was a company
owned by Mr Freudmann, things have changed rather rapidly. There's a
new ownership structure in town. RSP is now owned 10% by RiverOak
Manston Ltd. Who's the person who controls RiverOak Manston Ltd? Er, Mr
Freudmann.<br />
So what of the other 90% of RSP? Well, that's listed
as being controlled by MIO Investments Ltd. And who are they? You may
well ask. There's a company of that name that was dissolved in Feb 2012,
but otherwise, there's not a trace.<br />
Hardly transparent, is it?
Looks as if we're in for another dose of murk and mystery figures and
fantasy investors while our Tone and the boys have a bit of a whip round
for the dosh to get the DCO on the road.<br />
Hilariously, the great
business brains over on SMAa are busy telling the plane faithful to fret
not, this is quite normal behaviour, and it's the sad old "antis" who
don't understand. We don't know what country you're used to doing
private equity deals in, guys and gals, but it's not one we recognise.
Mind you, we're relying on our own experience of deals rather than on
what Mr Freudmann tells us. Perhaps that's the difference?"<br />
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Answer<br />
<b> "We share your determination! The creation of RiverOak Strategic Partners meets our long held commitment to have a UK operating company. Our investors are represented on the RSP board by Nick Rothwell, Rico Sykes and Gerard Heusler. M.I.O Investments Limited has been established by our investors as a specific funding vehicle for their financial interests in the Manston project, which is standard practice. M.I.O Investments Limited is a company registered in the Commonwealth territory of Belize.<br /> We have provided all required details of our company ownership structure to Companies House and also informed the Planning Inspectorate of the creation of RSP. Additional, comprehensive details of our funding partners and investment arrangements will be provided to PINS as part of the DCO application, providing solid evidence of our ability to meet all of the financial obligations associated with the acquisition, reopening and operation of the airport"</b><br />
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More later<b> </b></div>
God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-38408020561846272542017-03-17T18:44:00.002+00:002018-09-21T17:07:27.418+01:00Why choose Manston for freightWith the setting up of a dedicated UK team "Riveroak Strategic Partners" Freudmann has finally cut all links with his US funders Riveroak Investments LLC based in Connecticut. Where the funding is to come from to supply the stated £300M is unknown at present but like everything Freudmann does these are "commercially sensitive" or to put another way "I ain't telling you".<br />
<a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10269461" target="_blank"><b>Riveroak (sic) Strategic Partners</b></a><br />
To date no business plan has been disclosed but it is sure to be the most Bigly Business plan ever seen and it needs to be absolutely stupendous as the economics are against most normal business plans.<br />
Taken from observer's that attended the Public Enquiry is this little snippet<br />
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The following information comes in small digestible facts easily acquired if you scan the Department for Transport reports, The Airports Commission and the CAA website. None of the figures are made up and there is no reinterpretation (spin) just facts pure and simple.<br />
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Firstly total Airfreight at a stagnant 2,300,000 tonnes is a paltry 0.5% of the total freight shipped into the UK, the rest 99.5% is shipped via lorry or Shipping. It has been stagnant for more than a decade with little prospect of increasing for the foreseeable future. However within this figure 70% is shipped in the belly of passenger planes and as the demand for passenger flights is increasing that % is likely to increase.<br />
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The target freight that Freudmann has indicated he wants to take on is in the dedicated cargo plane market of the remaining tonnage which based on CAA figures are carried on 52000 air traffic movements (avg 13 tonnes per movement).<br />
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To be a Nationally Significant Project justifying taking the land from Stone Hill Park Freudmann will have to prove at least 10000 air freight movements which would need to haul 130,000 tonnes at the above average significantly less than their boast of between 500000 - 600000 tonnes, however that is still taking 20% of the dedicated freight market from the two biggest airports outside of Heathrow. (East Midlands and Stanstead who between them have a quarter of the total freight market and have significant capacity to take more).<br />
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A simple comparison of East Midlands and Stanstead show that Manston is at a distinct disadvantage and I list them below<br />
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<b>Does Manston have a 24 hour operation like EMA?</b> NO because they say they don't need Night Flights.<br />
<b>Does Manston have a central UK location with fast motorway access to all parts of the UK?</b> Er No it's stuck in NE Kent with an hour to get to the M25.<br />
<b>Does it have frequent flights to other UK airfields to avoid the road network?</b> Well no and it has never been suggested.<br />
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<b>Can it build an extensive network of Freight forwarding companies?</b> Doubtful<br />
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In fact most cargo travels in the belly of passenger planes and would prefer their planes not returning empty something that didn't happen at Manston.<br />
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Freudmann has already said they will be putting in £300M to build the infrastructure however he has yet to say where this money is coming from and how it will be repaid.<br />
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Let's take a look at that situation. No bank will lend him the money as it would be too risky so he will have to look at the Investment Market such as the Riveroak Investments LLC would have been however they have walked away (He has some new directors which may be his bankers). Investment banks take a view they want a return that matches the risk. In today's climate that is likely to be in the region of 9-10% and even then they will want to secure this against the land.<br />
£300M at 10% would mean a return of £30M a year or an eye watering £2.5 Million a month something that would put them at a major disadvantage in the cut throat world of Airfreight. (and that's without repaying the capital borrowed which over 25 years would be £1M per month).<br />
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<i><b>To summarise Manston is and will continue to be at a considerable disadvantage in the Airfreight market so unless Freudmann is completely stupid why is he chasing this non starter maybe that is more to do with the 800 acres of building land which he is fully aware of since his 1st approach to TDC in December 2013 when as MD of Annax Aviation he asked TDC whether he could build 1000 houses on the grass runway to the north. </b></i><b>(my take on the reasons)</b><br />
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Further there seems to be some doubt in former supporters minds as to the intentions of Freudmann<br />
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<b> </b>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-84336293559633142972017-01-20T21:53:00.000+00:002017-01-20T21:53:46.908+00:00irony and xenophobiaDuring the last 3 years it has become apparent that some of the people supporting the Manston Airport campaign are being played for fools by Riveroak and that they (RO) are using every propaganda tool in their toolbox to drum up continued support.<br />
Some of the slogans have roots in UKIP's election campaign in 2015 and in Trump's presidential campaign in 2016. From megaphone man's entreaty that 10000 homes will be built and filled with slum tenants from London overspill to Gloag developing Gloagsville garden town the campaign has been filled with xenophobic comments and the post truth (lies) has been utilised by Riveroak and Roger Gale to ensure continued support for planes flying again.<br />
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So it did surprise me that Carol's comment didn't generate some criticism or at least some recognition that the remark was somewhat wide of the mark. <b>"Bloody newbies" .... " they think they know what Thanet needs"</b>. It did generate some likes from people who it seems go along with these remarks.<br />
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I suspect the irony was missed completely, so I will spell it out.<br />
The Campaign on behalf of a <b>US Real Estate Company</b> is led by Beau Webber or to give him his full name John Beausire Wyatt Webber. Was he born Thanet? However he is telling you what to do and funnily enough his sidekick Pritchard isn't Thanet born either.<br />
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Still they aren't alone Roger Gale wasn't born in Thanet and neither is Craig Mackinlay.<br />
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Still what is clear is the support is single minded about their heroes Riveroak who it seems have £400M to invest in Manston which comes as a surprise when you consider the group only had <b>$11M</b> when they discussed this with TDC in late 2014 ( oh and a credit line of $400K unused) No wonder they wanted everything kept confidential.<br />
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What is also unusual is this credit line is from a rather small NY bank which was acquired by another bank (Sterling National Bank) in 2015. So if RO are such a huge company why do they bank with such a tiny entity?<br />
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So what of their knight in shining armour Anthony Freudmann was he perhaps born in Thanet? Well no.<br />
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This is his CV from the RO website which rather glosses over his business career and the fact that he was a practising solicitor until he was struck off for 23 counts of "misappropriation of clients funds" and he chose to resign from Shropshire CC because these offenses would have caused the Council to be sack him for bringing the council into disrespect. This CV is much more accurate.<br />
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It seems that much of the angst stems from xenophobia and several conversations I have had with people hinge on their belief that Manston was lost because people from outside the border of Thanet are interfering in Thanet matters except that it is people from outside of Thanet that are leading the campaign as well so it is somewhat hypocritical to use that as a reason when no referendum in Thanet has ever taken place.<br />
Still this campaign has been dogged by lies and propaganda from the start. Lies like Riveroak own Canary Wharf and Center Parc and that TDC are governed by who pays the most in "Brown Envelopes" none of which are true but if it influences the supporters then why not.<br />
Still there have been light hearted moments like a TDC Councillor (Ex-UKIP until he founded DIGgers) who fooled everybody into believing he was a decorated war hero<br />
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and the stringer for the BBC, who thinks he is a real reporter, who turned into a complete prat when he got hoisted by the Walter Mitty Hunters<br />
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Oh and Smee is it time yet to discuss your letter to Mr.Weirdy Beardy who lives in Kingsgate?<br />
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So to summarise You can only decide on what happens in Thanet if you are Thanet born. You can only live in Thanet if you are born in Thanet and when TDC build that wall round the island I suspect you might have to pay a toll to get on the Island. Unless that is you are Riveroak and our two MP's.<br />
<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-6709381106914152952016-12-21T18:57:00.000+00:002016-12-21T19:09:42.617+00:00access allowedTo date Riveroak have been trying to get to the starting gate so that they can take control of the former Kent International Airport. As they say talk is cheap. The list of conditions to get to the starting line is growing however one hurdle has been negotiated all be it it has taken 6 months which has put their timetable well behind.<br />
How many remember Sir Rog announcing "planes will be flying from Manston by the end of 2016" but then he is wasted as a MP he should be a comedian.<br />
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Here is the list of outstanding requirements<br />
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<b><u>1. a rebuttal to the Avia report</u></b><br />
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In October 2016 the report by AVIA, commissioned at a cost of £50K by TDC, was published. Immediately Riveroak said they would provide a full rebuttal, since then Riveroak has been strangely silent and now the AVIA report has been used to feed into the proposed Local plan which has changed the former airport to a mixed use site.<br />
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<b><u>2. A public consultation</u></b><br />
We have had a mickey mouse consultation led by airport supporters which managed to lose any feedback forms from people who think a cargo hub is wrong. But until 7 and 3 are completed there is no chance of a proper consultation.<br />
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<u><b>3. An environment report</b></u><br />
A fundamental prerequisite of a Public Consultation is a full Environmental report which should look at the affect on the people living under the flight path of a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project with at least 10000 aircraft movements a year.<br />
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<b><u>4. a DCO application</u></b><span class="text_exposed_show"></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Needless to say this will be the final hurdle however we are a very long way from getting the application submitted.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <u><b>5. A S53 application to access the land</b></u></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">On the 19th of December after taking 6 months the Planning Inspectorate have granted access to the site. Needless to say the pro airport supporters are ecstatic however in their normal hectoring style Riveroak decided to apply for 24/7/365 access. In other words they wanted unfettered access to the airport for a year. Now I wonder what would be reasonable access to land you don't own, have no rights to access, and ultimately you want to legally steal from the owners?</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">SHP made this statement:</span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">
<i>“The DCO process requires various surveys to be carried out on the
land. As part of that process, Stone Hill Park were approached about
allowing access, but were concerned at the scope of the entry to our
land that RiverOak sought in pu</i><i>rsuing this.<br /><br />
“We felt RiverOak’s effective request for entry to our land 365 days
a year, 24 hours a day, went beyond the realm of reasonable requests
and sought to ensure that if access was granted, it was under strict
conditions.<br /><br />“We are pleased with the conditions the
Planning Inspectorate has placed on this access and as a result we will
accept the decision rather than appeal.<br /><br />“We are
satisfied the Planning Inspectorate has performed the process with
integrity and to a very high standard and now intend to assist RiverOak
in accessing our site to carry out these environmental tests.<br /><br />
“Regardless of this decision, our view remains that an airport on
this site is unviable and attempts to obtain the land by way of a
Development Consent Order will fail – just as attempts to obtain it
through a Compulsory Purchase Order failed.”</i></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">When asked what the conditions imposed were they said:</span></span><br />
<i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">"</span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Hi
Barry, they predominantly deal with the times and dates that RO can
access the site and what tasks can be carried out. The conditions have
been shared with RO and SHP. Hopefully they will also be published on
the PI website in due course."</span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Chris Wells responded as follows</span></span></span></span><br />
"<i>I
have been told that section 53 access to the Manston Airport site has
been granted by the Secretary of State, although as yet no formal
confirmation has appeared.</i><div class="copy-paste-block">
<i>"I am not surprised by this news, as
the early stages of any pre application DCO process concentrate on the
potential capacity of the site, to understand if what is being
considered is 'a distinct project of real substance genuinely requiring
entry onto the land'.</i><br />
<i>"<b>The capacity of the potential applicant to
undertake the proposed project, and its value to be assessed as a
nationally significant infrastructure project, comes later. And even
with the best of Christmas spirit in mind, it is within the basics of
proving finance and business planning that Riveroak have, to date, been
found wanting</b>.</i><br />
<i>We shall all see how things now develop in the New Year</i>."<br />
<span><br />Read
more at
http://www.kentlive.news/stone-hill-park-responds-to-government-order-to-allow-riveroak-access-to-manston-airport/story-30001784-detail/story.html#oICuKPBPYZSzbWm4.99</span></div>
<i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span></span></span></i><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span> </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <u><b>6. A answer to the screenshot question from Robo King.</b></u></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Bar the fact that the comment is very threatening it is also completely ridiculous. The decision made was to withdraw TDC planning's objections to the "change of use" for 4 buildings on the former airfield. This is hardly surprising as the AVIA report stated quite clearly there is no chance of a viable airport before 2031. Still there will be another opportunity to discuss the applications on the 24th January 2017 with a Public Enquiry.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <u><b>7. No work with TDC on a "Statement of Community Consultation"</b></u></span><br />
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<![endif]-->God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-45201397768111844912016-12-15T19:31:00.000+00:002016-12-15T19:31:15.773+00:00predeterminationLast night, 14th December 2016, TDC planning reversed a decision made to refuse "change of use" for 4 buildings on the Manston site.<br />
<u><b>A brief synopsis</b></u><br />
The following planning applications were received on 23 May 2015:<br />- F/TH/15/0458 for the change of use from airport use to general industrial use for<br />Building 4, Manston Airport, Spitfire Way, Manston.<br />- F/TH/15/0459 for the change of use from airport use to storage and distribution<br />use for the Manston Airport Cargo Centre & Responding Vehicle Point, Spitfire<br />Way, Manston.<br />- F/TH/15/0460 for change of use from airport use to general industrial for a<br />temporary period of 3years for Building South of Terminal (Hanger 1), Manston<br />Airport, Manston.<br />
- F/TH/15/0457 for the change of use of Building 870, Spitfire Way, Manston Airport<br />from airport use to general industrial use together with four storey extension and<br />insertion of windows<br />
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Members considered the planning application for the change of use of Building 870,<br />Spitfire Way, Manston Airport from airport use to general industrial use together with<br />four storey extension and insertion of windows, under reference F/TH/15/0457, and<br />refused the application for the following reason:<br />- <i>The proposed development, by virtue of the loss of a building for aviation use,<br />would create the potential need for additional buildings within the countryside and<br />would not constitute essential airside development, contrary to Thanet Local Plan<br />Policies CC1 and EC4 of the Thanet Local Plan, and paragraphs 14 and 17 and<br />guidance within the National Planning Policy Framework.</i><br />
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The applicant then appealed and this appeal is due to be heard by virtue of a full public enquiry on the 24th January 2017.<br />
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Since then the Council has requested a full report on the viability of an airport being fully up and running in the foreseeable future as any policy set out in a Local Plan must be evidence based. <b>(You know those strange things called facts not wishes, not opinions but those hard solid facts much despised by a section of the population)</b><br />
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So last night the Planning Committee met again in the light of the Avia Report, the recent resignation of the Planning Chair and the realisation that the position is now untenable.<br />
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<b>In recommending the withdrawal of the opposition to the appeals, it is considered that<br />the Council would be acting reasonably in response to the available evidence in<br />forming its position on the appeals before the Planning Inspectorate.</b><br />
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What would be the consequences to TDC if they failed to be reasonable?<br />
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<b>The advice outlines is that if officers’ professional or technical advice is not<br />followed, authorities will need to show reasonable planning grounds for<br />taking a contrary decision and produce relevant evidence on appeal to<br />support the decision in all respects. If they fail to do so, costs may be<br />awarded against the authority. In this case, officers and counsel consider<br />that the Council cannot substantiate the reason for refusal for the change<br />of use of these specific buildings, given the new evidence before the<br />Council and the direction of Council policy for the site within the draft local<br />plan. For this reason if the reason for refusal on each appeal is not<br />withdrawn officers consider there is a substantial risk of significant costs<br />being awarded against the Council by the Planning Inspectorate.<br />There are no funds allocated for any potential fines meaning that that any<br />decision other than that recommended will result in spend that is outside<br />of the budgetary framework.</b><br />
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To put the other side would there be any financial consequences to SMAa if they bullied TDC planning into carrying on the refusal to grant "change of use"?<br />
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<b>NO</b><br />
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<b><u>Was this predetermination</u></b><br />
To listen to the ostriches in the Save Manston Airport Association (SMAa) it is all a conspiracy and a stitch up by Chris Wells.<br />
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This is a sample of how wild and wacky their collective minds work and I do hope that UKIP councillors have their bodyguards well paid. However a brief look at the facts will show there is no conspiracy and no attempt to subvert the will of the electorate. In fact the one constant since 2014 is the repeated failure of Riveroak to adhere to their side of the pact with SMAa.<br />
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Where have Riveroak failed<br />
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2014 Just prior to the final closure of the site Freudmann (along with Riveroak in tow) approached Ann Gloag and offered (allegedly £7M) the "full asking price" however Ann Gloag refused mainly because Freudmann wnated the £2M in the Manston Skyport bank account. (there may be other reasons but I couldn't possible comment on someone else's business acumen.<br />
Riveroak then failed to convince TDC (under Labour control) they had the money to support TDC in a CPO.<br />
2015 we have a change of leadership at TDC and UKIP allowed RO to try again however once again RO fail to deliver. (No proof of money and no viable plan)<br />
No other viable business comes forward to partner TDC in returning Manston to an airport and RO decide to see if they can blag the National Planning Inspectorate in allowing a Development Consent Order. Yet even here, now into 2016, they fail as they are advised not to start formal consultations until they have applied yet they set up unofficial ones manned by SMAa personnel where people opposed to a freight hub are intimidated and questionnaires mysteriously disappear.<br />
Now late in 2016 they are asking the landowners for permission to access the land to conduct assessments which have been rebuffed. Turning to the PI to order access they have failed to even answer basic questions on their application.<br />
We have a report, requested by TDC for policy SP05 (use of land at Manston), The Avia Report which determined that even if all their ducks line up in a row Manston cannot be viable before 2031. This report was released on the 4th October 2016 and immediately Riveroak issued a stern letter to TDC saying the report was flawed and they would issue a formal rebuttal. Again they fail as it is now the 15th December, the report has been used to overturn the denied planning permissions and has changed the new Local Plan.<br />
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<b>So SMAa instead of vilifying UKIP turn your anger onto the fools at Riveroak who have yet to prove they are worth anymore than $1.6M with a credit line of $400K.</b><br />
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Of course this has been predetermined, it is call geography, as no commercial aviation business has turned a profit since the RAF left Manston. In fact how can it when the pool of customers is so small and the cost of running an aviation is so expensive. Wake up and smell the coffee<br />
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Having spoken with a few UKIP Councillors it is clear they do want Manston as a viable airport, despite what you fools think, yet wishes and dreams cannot survive in the cold, hard relity of a commercial venture. Riveroak are chancers and Freudmann is a "snake oil salesman" who are playing with your dreams.<br />
<b>The current rumour doing the rounds is that Riveroak has approached the owners asking how much the owners would pay RO to go away.</b><br />
I also hear that they have told the PI they now do not need to access the land to do their Environmental Assessments, as they have enough information to complete that side of their application.<br />
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So to those fools leading the vile and nasty campaign to bully the rest of Thanet into accepting the failed organisation called Riveroak keep going but your time is growing short oh and keep buying that tinfoil you really need it<br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-72463003334599312742016-12-06T18:42:00.001+00:002016-12-06T18:42:34.412+00:00Down the pubYet again the propaganda war rears its ugly head. When will people learn to do their own research. The latest from a "discussion" down the pub.<br />
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<u><b>Riveroak own Canary Wharf</b></u><br />
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This old chestnut keeps coming up yet despite it being proven wrong it keeps coming back.<br />
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"Riveroak's CEO is Stephen DeNardo is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_director" target="_blank">an independent director</a>
of Brookfield Property Partners based in the West Indies who with a
Quatari consortium forced a buyout of Canary Wharf. He isn't the Chief
Financial Officer but is the Chair of the Audit Committee and as
Brookfield is listed on the New York Stock Exchange they have to abide
by their rules."<br />
* <a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/truth-lies-and-politics.html">http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/truth-lies-and-politics.html</a><br />
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So in plain English Steve DeNardo is there because without an auditor Brookfield Property Partner's wouldn't be able to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He has NO say in the running of Brookfield. He doesn't make investment decisions and therefore doesn't own Canary Wharf.<br />
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<u><b>They have 300 million quid available now</b></u><br />
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I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read this. Why oh why are some people so gullible.<br />
Let's look at some facts.<br />
They rent a couple of rooms in this building<br />
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They must be very frugal if they have £300M available right now and bearing in mind their business model (They are a real estate investment company) which is to buy "distressed assets", add value and sell on. To do this they advertise for investors, collect in the money, Buy and then improve. Whilst improving the asset they pay good interest rates which reflect the risk for the investors. In 2014 when they provided figures to TDC their net asset value was $1.6M, with a credit line of $400K.<br />
read here <a href="http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/propaganda-war-part-two.html">http://promote-ramsgate.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/propaganda-war-part-two.html</a><br />
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<u><b>There are 27 Freight Operators ready to fly here</b></u><br />
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If they offered free landing fees and special inducements possibly but then if they borrow £300M to finance the airport they will have to pay their investors around £30M a year in interest which quite frankly is ludicrous to believe both are possible at the same time.<br />
Quite frankly no one is queuing up to fly into Manston but a desperate campaign needs some straws to grab onto.<br />
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Ryanair, Aer Lingus and KLM are wanting to fly from Manston<br />
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With the right inducements I'm sure they will come but some facts.<br />
1. Planestation failed dismally taking a lot of money with it and who set up Planestation yes you guessed it Tony Freudmann.<br />
<b>"<i>Planestation has been one of the most woeful ventures ever to
grace the London Stock Exchange. Over the past ten years the group,
previously known as Wiggins, has raised more money, north of around £115
million than its actual market valuation. With this cash it built up an
international chain of seven (hitherto largely dormant) airports and an
assortment of property interests and assets in the UK. Apart from
property disposals, it has generated little in the way of revenues,
milked its investor base for all they were worth and produced gargantuan
annual losses". </i></b><br />
2. KCC lost money in Planestation and they lost money when they tried to underwrite a service to Virginia <b>(<i>2006 – KCC invests £289,000 in Freudmann’s Manston to Virginia plan. Not a single plane takes off.)</i></b><br />
3. KLM were paid an inducement to provide a service from Manston to Schipol by KCC (said to be £680K). During their operating period they achieved a 50% occupancy rate. So without the inducement it is doubtful they would have made a profit and how long the service would have lasted is anyone's guess but what is clear is every passenger service from Manston has failed dismally.<br />
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Is it any surprise that Manston doesn't succeed when you look at what other airports offer. Geographically Manston cannot succeed as it is surrounded on 3 sides by sea.<br />
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So if passengers cannot work why should freight succeed when dedicated freight services can fly an extra 10 minutes to land in the Geographical centre of the UK surrounded by motorways where most destinations in the UK are only 4 hours away.<br />
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<u><b>Postscript</b></u><br />
After the split of SMA "Save Manston Airport" Campaign and Beau Webber and his merry men set up their own group SMAa they have gained 2000+ members however looking through the membership it is surprising how many Countries take an "interest" in this tiny corner of Kent. So can anyone from the group explain just why 10 Japanese nationals are members, why there are Chinese, Americans and various other nationalities are member. Suspicious people might be forgiven for thinking membership is somewhat padded out, just like the number of people turning up at rally's.<br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-66864508595233588532016-11-22T20:33:00.001+00:002016-11-23T18:35:17.965+00:00Herd mentalityI really believe that Riveroak may be losing their way bogged down in a process they neither understood nor planned for.<br />
A DCO (Development Consent Order) is a six stage process underwritten by a proscribed series of events. The problem for Riveroak is they assumed it dance to their tune bulldozing all opposition and be over in less than 6 months. They also believed they could bamboozle the National planning team and not have to play by their rules. Despite it being a government department the PI know what they are doing and it seems Riveroak aren't listening to their own advisers. *1<br />
Cracks are starting to appear in their support as people in the campaign to get planes flying again are beginning to realise that Riveroak are out of their depth.<br />
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The same questions were asked by supporters when the Avia report was published and despite the spin from the pro-supporters Avia did actually ask Riveroak for details of their plan for Manston and didn't take at face value their boast they were prepared to put £300M into Manston. <br />
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They did however take exception to the spin from pro supporters that their report wasn't fact based especially as they are respected within the aviation sector. After 7 weeks a fact based repudiation from Riveroak is still awaited. Riveroak's Legal team did question the validity of the Avia report especially concerning the report ed plans from Riveroak however Thanet Council responded to these concerns which showed that Avia gave Riveroak the correct weight in their report.<br />
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Now many of the pro-supporters will not accept that Chris Wells and Madelaine Homer are acting in the best interest of Thanet residents despite much proof that they are and it would seem strange that normally sensible people will accept the words of an American Real Estate Investment Limited Liability Company and not the sensible words of the Chief Executive of Thanet Council.<br />
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There needs to be an investigation as to why large numbers of normally sensible people are acting in such a strange way.<br />
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Firstly there is an aspect of their behaviour which has meant that much of what TDC do today is undermined by previous actions in the past. The two main incidents are Sandy Ezekiel's fall from grace when he was convicted (Sandy was leader of the Conservative Council from 2003 until he resigned) and secondly the audit report in 2013/14 which stated the Council was toxic and led to the lay members of Standards resigning "en masse" after being verbally abused after they presented their report to council.<br />
Secondly there is a "herd mentality" in operation where the actions of a few are orchestrating the actions of the many. This is mainly seen in the various Facebook pages such as SMA and SMAa where the admins censor anything they don't want the members to see and where topics are manipulated so that a consistently biased message takes centre stage. These pages encourage behaviour where the main enemies are Ann Gloag, Paul Carter, Chris Wells, Cartner & Musgrave and Pauline Bradley are dehumanised and vilified without mercy. Where twisted truth is applauded and where no one questions the words of Tony Freudmann and Riveroak.<br />
thirdly and linked to the second point is groupthink (of which I have posted before) where the collective mind believes without question their own insular viewpoint and where minders ensure that any deviation from their norm is censored aggressively.<br />
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Some might say that their campaign has many of the hallmarks of a religious cult however there is no evidence that they pray for deliverance as yet.<br />
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Finally I believe many current Councillors believe it would be political suicide to change the airport to a mixed use and housing format because of the potential loss of votes as the change would ensure no airport use would be possible in the future. This is based on the support for the airport consistently stated by the pro groups. Councillors sitting on tiny majorities may mistakenly believe that in 2020 they would no longer be Councillors should they be blamed for losing Manston. In my opinion the fault for this belief lies with the propaganda put out by the pro supporters and their support for a freight hub is not as large as they would have you believe. There maybe support for planes landing at Manston but that is based on the number of planes that used to use the airfield. Very few people want a freight hub of the size of East Midlands (78000 movements in 2015) with the associated night flights (currently 30% of flights land overnight). What Councillors also need to understand is the level of support for Riveroak is falling as the post above shows the longer they fail to provide any details of their plans. In 2014 when they were a contender for a partner in a CPO their financial worth was supplied to Thanet Council. Their net worth was $1.6M and a credit line of $400K, they have produced nothing to show they are worth anymore than that and their talk of investing £300M into Manston is just that, talk.<br />
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Stop press<br />
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The context for this letter from the Govt planners was a letter from whiny Gale asking why RO have yet to be given access to Manston Airport.<br />
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I will draw your attention to this paragraph<br />
<i><b>"<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Previous s53
authorisations have been the subject of judicial review. The Inspectorate will
always ensure that decisions are underpinned by a robust and proportionate consideration.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i><b>In this
case the Inspectorate has had to make several requests for further information
to the Applicant in order to be able to process the application. I can assure
you that the Inspectorate is dealing with this authorisation request as
expediently as possible and a decision can be made as soon as all necessary
information has been received. </b></i>" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It seems that professional expertise is either not as expert as Riveroak believe or more likely Riveroak are totally out of their depth. </span></div>
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<![endif]-->God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-5597812484300984662016-11-14T21:38:00.001+00:002016-11-14T21:38:46.117+00:00Tony FreudmannAll the many amateur detectives putting in their Voluntary hours to try and dissect the many faceted business portfolio of Ann Gloag really ought to take a look at the Bona Fides of the man fronting Riveroaks bid for Manston. Next time he is in town ask him a few questions.<br />
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Besides being struck off as a Solicitor for 23 counts of "misappropriation" of client funds and having to resign as leader of Shropshire Council he has led a challenging life as an assett-stripper by leveraging going concerns, making people redundant and selling the assets. An extremely immoral but legal business practice. Here is his recent CV.<br />
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<i>"Tony Freudmann, Director of RiverOak and their front man here in the UK
for the Manston caper, has spent an awful lot of energy over the last
twenty years acquiring; trying to acquire; and failing to develop old
military airports. This glorious run of complete failure is topped and
tailed by Manston. Here's a very brief summary:<br /><br />1994 – Freudmann
joins Wiggins, a property development company. He gives Wiggins the idea
of buying up old military airports for development and is made
responsible for airport acquisition. Wiggins' focus is on buying:
“former military bases with ample availability of surrounding land which
can be developed using the real estate experience of Wiggins.” Sound
familiar?</i> <i><br />1999 – Wiggins buys Manston Airport.<br /><br />2000 –
Freudmann and Wiggins go on a buying spree. Wiggins acquires Odense
airport in Denmark in a joint venture (JV) with the local authority. As
part of the deal Wiggins will get “exclusive development rights over 400
acres of land.” Potentially very lucrative, no? The JV is later ended
by the local authority because the rent hadn’t been paid by Wiggins. A
chunky financial settlement is agreed against Wiggins in 2005. <br /><br />2000
– Wiggins acquires a 25 year lease for Smyrna Airport, Tennessee, USA.
The plan is to develop the airport and have it as Wiggins’ corporate HQ.
Wiggins said at the time that 14 more airports would be acquired in
2000. Yes, 14. In 2003 Wiggins surrenders the lease for Smyrna. <br /><br />2001
– Wiggins takes a lease from the Czech MoD for Pilsen airport. A deal
is made with BAE to redevelop the airport. Nothing much happens. When
Wiggins (by then called Planestation) goes belly up in 2005, Pilsen is
sold. <br /><br />2001 – Wiggins acquires 80% of Lahr airport, Germany.
During Wiggins’ ownership, redevelopment plans come to nothing. Lahr is
sold to Babcock & Brown in 2005 when Planestation goes under. <br /><br />2001
– Wiggins acquires Schwerin Parchim airport in Northern Germany
alongside a nice EU grant to develop it. There are issues (again) with
non-payment of rent. The agreement is terminated in 2005 and Wiggins
settles for 3m Euro.<br /><br />2001 – Wiggins takes a 43% stake in
Cuneo-Levaldigi airport, Italy. Wiggins withdraws in 2004 having made
heavy losses despite serious investment by the Italian Government.<br /><br />2001
– Wiggins agrees a deal to build and operate an international airport
in Ajman, UAE. An $800m plan to redevelop the airport comes to nothing
and is abandoned in 2003.<br /><br />2001 – The Financial Reporting Review
Panel criticises Wiggins for five years of over-positive reporting of
its financial results. When the accounts are redrawn, it’s clear that
Wiggins is operating at a significant loss. This is a long time before
EUJet is even dreamed of. It's a popular myth that EUJet broke
Planestation. EUJet didn't help, that's true, but Wiggins/Planestation
was mired in debt well before EUJet came along. And Freudmann had a big
part to play in the Planestation demise because he was out snapping up
unsuccessful airports.<br /><br />2003 – Trading in Wiggins shares is suspended to give the company a chance to sort itself out.<br /><br />2004
– Wiggins takes a lease to operate the international side of Melbourne
Airport, USA. It says that Melbourne will replace Smyrna airport in the
Wiggins portfolio. The project is just starting when Planestation goes
under in 2005.<br /><br />2004 – Wiggins takes on Borgond Airport, Hungary,
in a JV withthe local authority. Work had not begun when Planestation
went under in 2005. <br /><br />2004 – Wiggins becomes Planestation. <br /><br />2004 (May) – Wiggins buys 30% of EUJet.<br /><br />2004 – Turnaround expert brought in to rescue Planestation. He says: <br /><br />"When
I first came here we were spending money to no particular end. Last
year we spent £11 million maintaining dormant airports. The previous
year £13.5 million.” <br /><br />He says that Planestation will no longer be "an acquirer of assets and a stealer of ideas". <br /><br />Others
say: "… Planestation has been one of the most woeful ventures ever to
grace the London Stock Exchange. Over the past ten years the group,
previously known as Wiggins, has raised more money, north of around £115
million than its actual market valuation. With this cash it built up an
international chain of seven (hitherto largely dormant) airports and an
assortment of property interests and assets in the UK. Apart from
property disposals, it has generated little in the way of revenues,
milked its investor base for all they were worth and produced gargantuan
annual losses". <br /><br />Take a bow for your part in this "woeful" adventure, Mr Freudmann.<br /><br />2004 (Dec) – Planestation buys the rest of EUJet.<br /><br />2005
(Feb) – Tony Freudmann is “let go” from Planestation and goes into the
travel industry, following the lead of his parents and his brother. <br /><br />2005 (July) – Planestation goes into administration. Infratil buys Manston airport from the administrator.<br /><br />2005
to 2009 – Tony Freudmann bills Kent County Council for almost £176,000
in consultancy fees, including a £50,000 feasibility report into
starting up flights from Manston to Virginia. <br /><br />2006 – KCC invests £289,000 in Freudmann’s Manston to Virginia plan. Not a single plane takes off.<br /><br />2011
– Local authority in Germany puts the running of Lahr Airport out to
tender again following Babcock & Brown’s failure to develop it
successfully.<br /><br />2012 – Infratil puts Manston on the global market.<br /><br />2012
– Tony Freudmann takes over Lahr Airport for Integeral Investments Ltd.
Integeral was established in May 2008 by Sanjeev Joshi and Daryn
Soards. Douglas Maggs is also involved. <br /><br />2012 – Local Press at
Lahr comment that the airport's workers are not being paid. Tony
Freudmann says he has no comment to make as it is a “private matter”. <br /><br />2012
– High Court hearing for Integeral to be placed into administration or
wound up. Court hears evidence that Integeral was insolvent from late
2011, i.e. before Freudmann used Integeral to bid to run Lahr Airport.
Integeral is then wound up. Oddly, Tony Freudmann doesn’t mention this
in conversation with the Lahr Press when he is interviewed a couple of
days later.<br /><br />2013 – The local authority puts the running of Lahr
back out to tender again. Tony Freudmann tries to get hold of it a third
time, using his brand-new company, Annax Aviation. PWC (running the
bidding process for the Lahr contract) does not think that any of the
three bidders, including Annax, is suitable.<br /><br />2013 – TF introduces Ann Gloag to the Prestwick and Manston sale opportunities.<br /><br />2013 – Ann Gloag buys Manston for £1 plus the airport’s running costs until the deal closes.<br /><br />2014
(Jan) – Tony Freudmann fronts a bid to buy the airport from Ann Gloag.
At the same time he goes to TDC to ask about the possibility of putting
1,000 houses on the Northern Grass. Never doubt, airport lovers, that
this is the main game here for Freudmann and for RiverOak. Take a look
at that HUGE industrial estate in the RiverOak drawing (not really a
plan) released for the non-statutory consultations. We bet you any money
you like that the real "plan" is to develop that land, the Northern
Grass, for a quick return and then to run the airport on a shoestring
until it fails yet again. <br /><br />2014 – Consortium including Tony Freudmann makes Ann Gloag an offer for Manston and is rejected.<br /><br />2014 – Tony Freudmann pals up with RiverOak to try yet again to get hold of Manston. <br /><br />Now,
can you honestly read that catalogue of disasters and believe for one
second that Tony Freudmann and RiverOak could ever run a successful
airport at Manston? Seriously? In fact, does anyone really believe that
Tony Freudmann wants the land this time around so that he can run an
airport when he has spent twenty years trying to acquire former military
airports because they have lots of development land attached to them"</i><br />
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It isn't surprising that people have been taken in however where Riveroak comes into this mess is anyone's guess. Now wait it isn't that surprising seeing as they are a Real Estate Investment company just like Wiggins.God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-14330585775652946862016-11-12T22:34:00.000+00:002016-11-12T22:34:36.574+00:00SP05 Manston Airport siteBecause we have a local plan in consultation stage the former brownfield site at Manston has caused some discussion in TDC's planning department. The current draft plan has had to be amended as no viable plan has come forward to enshrine the brownfield site for aviation use. The current draft plan has this to say about Manston.<br />
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This has changed for 2 reasons firstly No credible offer has come forward since the airport closed and secondly because TDC has spent £50K of ratepayers money to get an evidenced based report into the viability of a functioning airfield.<br />
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Needless to say the many airport supporters are incensed with Chris Wells coming in for the normal hate speech which the admins of the various groups are failing to deal with, however the worst of the vitriol is aimed at the prospective new owners of the housing with xenophobia and racism top of the list.<br />
So what started with a letter in the Gazette has been blown up out of all proportion with the final nail in the coffin of the former airport site. See previous blogpost<br />
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God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161305991548017429.post-74479911872814475512016-11-11T18:47:00.000+00:002016-11-11T18:47:14.349+00:00Put up or just shut upToday the 11th of November 2016, Armistice Day, the Thanet Gazette has printed a letter from our esteemed leader, Chris Wells.<br />
I reproduce it on here and I hope that what he writes is actually understood by the pro-Manston supporters. I'm not holding my breathe.<br />
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To Beau Webber you talk of Riveroak preparing to spend £300M to £400M however talk is cheap. When they last prepared a business plan with costings their credit line available was $1.6M and a letter from a midwest bank of $400K.<br />
<b>So Beau why are you still believing their lies? Have you never heard of gilding the lily or the word "The Mark".</b> Just because you are desperate to succeed should not blind you to the fact that you are being taken in by a confidence trickster.<br />
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Ruth you are asked why you do not accept the Avia report? (paid for by TDC at a cost of £50K from public funds) It was requested because the Local plan (currently being written) has to have evidence to support Manston as a viable business. The Falcon report (£10K) said it would take £100M and 20 years to make it a viable going concern. The Avia report has said it will unlikely to ever be a going concern yet you and your fellow protesters will not accept it despite your having zero aviation experience.<br />
So what did Riveroak (to remind you no other suitor has come forward) do about a report which says it will never be a success. Well to remind you again, they said:<br />
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So Avia deliver their report to TDC on October 4th 2016, 9 days later Riveroak make a statement but a whole month later Riveroak are continuing to develop their "plan" but no rebuttal as yet.<br />
I will remind you airport supporters we have been here before in 2014 Riveroak were asked for a business plan and they failed, 2016 has come and gone nearly and Riveroak have failed yet again.<br />
It isn't surprising though as they have zero experience with running an airport and Freudmann, their lead, only has experience in failure in running Manston.<br />
On the 2nd November the anti Riveroak supporters said:<br />
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<b><i>"It criticises Avia for not reporting
on the RiverOak business plan. This’ll be the business plan that we have
all been waiting for since early 2014, we presume – you know, the
business plan that is soooooo confidential that it can’t be released
until RiverOak swagger in to the Planning Inspectorate with its DCO
application sometime in 2017. Hilarious. Here’s a tip, RiverOak – if you
want any of us to take your business plan seriously, you had better
show it to us. As a fantasy that exists only in your own hive mind, it’s
having no impact in the real world whatsoever. </i></b><br />
<b><i> The lawyers’
letter criticises Avia for relying on anonymous interviews. It seems to
have escaped RiverOak’s attention completely that RiverOak is relying
entirely on anonymous investors to pony up the dosh for its Manston
caper and has steadfastly refused to share so much as a name. </i></b><br />
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The letter criticises Avia for producing a report that is “without
evidence”. Now that is a piece of comic genius. How many times have we
asked RiverOak where their 10,000 cargo flights are going to come from
in a completely flat air freight market? Or their 20,000 cargo flights?
Or their 500,000 to 600,000 tonnes of freight? Or their cargo customers
who won’t want a single night flight ever, no siree? We have never seen a
jot of evidence to support these wild fantasies of a successful daytime
cargo airport in Thanet that will knock spots off rival East Midlands
Airport. Without evidence? That's RiverOak's favourite way of operating.
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<b><i> The letter criticises Avia for ignoring “six respected studies”
that apparently support the RiverOak claim that there is loads and
loads of air freight out there just swishing around looking for a UK
airport to use. Bizarrely, the letter doesn’t go so far as to name any
of these studies, not even one. Nope, not so much as a hint. We would
say this was entirely “without evidence”, wouldn’t you?</i></b><br />
<b><i> Anyway,
we can hardly wait to see this “detailed rebuttal” from RiverOak as and
when the team can get around to writing it. Don't rush 'em - their crack
team has only had four weeks so far in which to do this. Let’s hope
that when it finally does reach daylight, this rebuttal is stuffed full
of evidence; data; sources and names… unlike anything that RiverOak have
produced to date."</i></b></div>
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BTW you do know Freudmann earnt £170K as a consultant to KCC in 2005 and KCC lost £100K when Planestation folded. A great track record.<br />
So to the last group "Why Not Manston" I make no apology in posting the words of the TDC Leader (a man that you vilify at every opportunity)<br />
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<i><b>"If you are dissatisfied with the rigor of the Avia report, then I trust you will apply the same standards to Riveroak's failure to supply any business plan that can be evidenced. After three years work, the charge of scandalous complacency sits with you (and all pro-Manston supporters My words not Chris's) as much as anyone else"</b></i><br />
He further says:<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>"I say to you all and through you to Riveroak - Show me the Business case and the money"</b></u></span><br />
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Time and time again Riveroak has only one consistency and that is failure, failure to produce a viable business plan, failure to produce evidence of enough money, failure to do anything to further their case except words and more words. It is past time to produce a plan or sod off back to the US of A. And while you are at it take Freudmann with you.<br />
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So I will say the words that Chris felt he couldn't bring himself to say.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Riveroak put up or shut up</b></i></span>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com3