Paragraph 1.2 Policy Evidence Base
In formulating a document concerning the development of an Airport it would seem to me that the report "What are Airport's Impacts Planning Guide Part 2" by C. Weston would be an obvious choice to include in the Evidence Base. This interesting and informative document is conspicuous by its absence. Furthermore it is easily downloaded via the Internet at no cost. The information it contains on the sources of pollution produced on airports is especially relevant with housing so close to London Southend Airport.
The information on bird strikes again is very relevant. I understand also from the Webb that a company called Safeskys has been engaged to monitor and administer the 26 kilometre diameter Bird Control Zone around the Airport. This stretches out a far as Wallasea Island where an EU directed conservation area to compensate for the loss of habitat for migratory wading birds, caused by DP World Port, is being established at considerable cost. I have been told that a number of dead herons have been found and this is very disturbing.
It is hard to imagine how a document such as this Submission Draft can have been written without consideration of the points that I have raised. The absence of the Planning Guide quoted indicates strongly that they have not been. This makes it unbalance and unbalanced. The Submission Draft is required by statute to be balanced, lack of balance makes it unlawful.