Comments for Stop the Estuary Airport

Comment on Sign the petition by Peter Clements

Peter Clements — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:19:18 +0000

This area is completely unsuitable for an airport. For a start it is always foggy, how will they keep the birds away, it is right on top of many tonnes of old explosives, I could go on and on.
Money would be better spent running the high speed rail and road service to Manston.

Comment on Help us ground this scheme by Catharina

Catharina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:29:05 +0000

Please do not build this stupid idea of an air port. It will cost billions of pounds for something we do not actually need. Flight company’s are having to reduce prices to get people to fly so why create more airports for even more of a struggle to persuade people to fly. You also have the wildlife that would be killed and the amazing history of grain lost forever. We will not be the only ones effected what about everyone in the surrounding areas that would have plains flying over head all day every day. Why not open another run way in the existing airports and allow them to expand when they want to instead of putting a whole new lot of people out of jobs and homes here.

Comment on Email Boris by John Jarvis

John Jarvis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:28:40 +0000

Hardly a decade has elapsed since the last proposal for a Thames Estuary airport was rejected as financially unjustifiable due to the enormous construction and infrastructure costs involved. The local job-creation argument was exposed as disingenuous, since skilled workers for large-scale projects are often recruited elsewhere, as demonstrated by current activities on the Isle of Grain. I recall that only one international airline was then prepared to operate east of London; that airline later filed for insolvency. Every other airline insisted on a more centrally located airport such as Heathrow. The current proposals will, undoubtedly, again meet with overwhelming opposition from the voters of north Kent and south Essex, who, understandably, refuse to tolerate the blight upon their lives throughout the 10-15 year building phase and the subsequent environmental nuisance of jet engine noise and associated pollution over a conurbation of some 500,000 people. I would ask what has changed to cause a project deemed unjustifiable and unaffordable, at £14bn, by every serious financial and scientific consultant advising the UK Government in 2003, to be moved a few miles and suddenly become affordable at £70bn today. Finally may I say how regrettable it is, that you have chosen to waste your considerable talent on this unattainable idea, while many parts of our capital city, under your stewardship, remain crime-ridden, litter-infested, graffiti-polluted slums, served by an inadequate, outdated transport system and failing schools turning out a disturbing number of illiterate, innumerate, disaffected young people with little to contribute to the future of their community but social unrest.

Comment on Sign the petition by caroline baylis

caroline baylis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:09:56 +0000

I agree

Comment on Sign the petition by David Abbotts

David Abbotts — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:05:13 +0000

Other than the destruction of habitate and wildlife my concerns are around sea erosion caused by diverting the Thames etc from its normal path and flow with a massive man made structure in the way. Wheer does the water go if you raise the land?

Comment on Sign the petition by Terry Bell

Terry Bell — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:42:40 +0000

A new airport should have ready access to the whole of the country. What about Birmingham to link up with the new high speed rail line. What about Manchester. BBC employees could then fly back and forth(At licence payers expense.!) PS get a hair cut Boris

Comment on Medway welcomes Virgin Atlantic’s comments on Thames Estuary airport by Evelyn Elford-Knox

Evelyn Elford-Knox — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:30:44 +0000

Boris must be stopped.

Comment on Sign the petition by Evelyn Elford-Knox

Evelyn Elford-Knox — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:29:18 +0000

I aghree. Boris’s idea is crazy.

Comment on Sign the petition by Evelyn Elford-Knox

Evelyn Elford-Knox — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:26:08 +0000

I agree that Medway does not want your airport plan to go ahead. would be a disaster for Medway and the wider Thames Estuary.

Comment on Sign the petition by Katie Machin-miles

Katie Machin-miles — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:12:43 +0000

I agree