One thing that marks out the difference between the Riveroak Campaign and the real owners of the former Kent International airport is the willingness of Mssrs Cartner & Musgrave to engage with the public.
Today and tomorrow are consultation periods put aside for talking with the people in the area. Even then some of the pro supporters turned up to have their say. Today the 3rd December was the turn of the Pegwell Bay hotel and 8 people turned up to protest. Yes that's right a whole 8 people.
Postem
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We've
passed the 200 mark (for the two days) with 2.5 hours still to go on
this, the second of this week's public consultation events"
Despite the success of the 2 days the propaganda machine by the unemployed mummy's boy Dan Light jumps into motion and he has to try and spin the success. Nonetheless he has been wasting his time as the majority of the people at the consultations were neutrals who came to see what the plans were all about.
Seems Dan will say anything to bolster their nasty campaign, still only one group will consider 8 people outside protesting when they have 9000+ members a success.
I'm sure they made a huge difference. Now down to business:
To summarise:
This looks like much more effort has gone into the protection of the natural chalk aquifer than when it was an airport as much of the area will be open access parkland with improved road access.
As the observant will notice the airport is only partly built over the main aquifer, In fact part of Nethercourt estate has actually been built on top of the aquifer and in fact Manston Green has been planned on top of the aquifer so housing development hardly seems to be an issue for the Environment Agency despite what the pro supporters might believe.
