Object
London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 5764
Received: 26/03/2009
Respondent: Mrs Angela Snelling
The impact that these plans will have on the local environment will be terrible. 30 night flights, 2 million passengers per annum, extra freight both on the road and by rail.
The next generation will be damaged, both by the air pollution, disruption to their sleep patterns caused by night flights, and disruption to concentration during lessons caused by the day flights. All this for a few hundred jobs being created, as the rest are merely being relocated. IS IT WORTH IT?
Will the future generations of Southend thank us for this proposal getting the go ahead?
I strongly object to the fast growth rate plan proposal.
The polution that this will cause, both by aircraft and added road traffic will have a huge effect on local residents. With the proposed 2 million passengers per annum the artery that is the A127 will resemble a car park.
I used to live in Hayes, near Heathrow, and although we were not directly in the flightpath, any washing hung out to dry smelled of kerosene.
My 9 month old son developed asthma, and we moved to Southend. Now plans will bring the airport fumes back to us. As parents to the next generation, we are teaching them the relevance of walking - indeed, we run a walking bus to school, we teach them to recycle, to turn off lights and appliances to save the environment. Why? The emissions that this development will make will negate all the small things that local families do in the longrun. The noise from the planes during the day will have a detrimental effect on the children's concentration at school, and disrupt sleep during the night. This will have a long term impact on the education of the next generation, the schools results league in this area will be affected in a very short space of time. Does a few extra new jobs, not relocated ones, really balance this out?