Comment
London Southend Airport & Environs Joint Area Action Plan Issues & Options Paper
Representation ID: 1801
Received: 05/08/2008
Respondent: Mr A Batchelor
I have today received the report and submit my hurried comments.
The report seems to me to be a transparent attempt by the present owners to make money. Although these schemes will be avidly agreed by locals who wish for local flights this is a temporary affect and with the inevitable rises in fares will soon revert to the usual apathy,especially after the London Olympics. With the current conditions affecting all airlines and airports any grandiose such schemes are or should be considered pie in the sky.
The schemes are of course wrapped up with promises of better communications, jobs etc. to sugar the pill of permanent disruptions to existing and important transport links, noise, loss of green belt, massive overloading of road links and perhaps a new railway station by the reports own admission more of use to London commuters.
Of personal feelings best summed up I am a wheelchair user now but in the past have been a pax from Southend and have chartered Viscounts to Paris for example. The number 9 bus is a neccessity to attend St Laurence Church and the dentist in Aviation Way and the possibility of closing Eastwoodbury Lane and not serving those two mentioned places, coupled with the detrimental effect by splitting Eastwwod in two is not to be contemplated.
My choice is schemes is for 1 or 2a.
I have today received the report and submit my hurried comments.
The report seems to me to be a transparent attempt by the present owners to make money. Although these schemes will be avidly agreed by locals who wish for local flights this is a temporary affect and with the inevitable rises in fares will soon revert to the usual apathy,especially after the London Olympics. With the current conditions affecting all airlines and airports any grandiose such schemes are or should be considered pie in the sky.
The schemes are of course wrapped up with promises of better communications, jobs etc. to sugar the pill of permanent disruptions to existing and important transport links, noise, loss of green belt, massive overloading of road links and perhaps a new railway station by the reports own admission more of use to London commuters.
Of personal feelings best summed up I am a wheelchair user now but in the past have been a pax from Southend and have chartered Viscounts to Paris for example. The number 9 bus is a neccessity to attend St Laurence Church and the dentist in Aviation Way and the possibility of closing Eastwoodbury Lane and not serving those two mentioned places, coupled with the detrimental effect by splitting Eastwood in two is not to be contemplated.
My choice is schemes is for 1 or 2a.