Object
London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 5288
Received: 18/03/2009
Respondent: MR CHRISTOPHER BAILEY
To maximise employment potential, and give the area a much needed amenity, the Airport should be closed and re-developed as a regional shopping centre. This could create thousands of jobs suitable to the South Essex skils base as well as reversing the flow of shoppers to Lakeside and Bluewater. There is a lot of potential retail spending power in Southend which goes elsewhere because of the poor quality of the High Street.
Having said that, of course I have no onjection to an industial park too. But let's not pretend it will be any more high tech than, say, Basildon.
To maximise employment potential, and give the area a much needed amenity, the Airport should be closed and re-developed as a regional shopping centre. This could create thousands of jobs suitable to the South Essex skils base as well as reversing the flow of shoppers to Lakeside and Bluewater. There is a lot of potential retail spending power in Southend which goes elsewhere because of the poor quality of the High Street.
Having said that, of course I have no onjection to an industial park too. But let's not pretend it will be any more high tech than, say, Basildon.