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London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
Policy ENV6 - Green Buffer East of Railway
Representation ID: 12246
Received: 14/05/2009
Respondent: South East Essex Friends of the Earth
To suggest that maintaining a small strip of grass between the airport and the houses on Southend Road will do anything whatsoever to protect the amenities of the residential properties is to insult the intelligence of the occupants of those properties. Even the suggestion that the airport will expand has caused house prices in the Rochford area to fall by a substantial amount (we have been told of figures of between £25,000 and £30,000). If the expansion were to proceed, these houses would become unsellable.
To suggest that maintaining a small strip of grass between the airport and the houses on Southend Road will do anything whatsoever to protect the amenities of the residential properties is to insult the intelligence of the occupants of those properties. Even the suggestion that the airport will expand has caused house prices in the Rochford area to fall by a substantial amount (we have been told of figures of between £25,000 and £30,000). If the expansion were to proceed, these houses would become unsellable.
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London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
5. Implementation, Delivery and Monitoring
Representation ID: 12482
Received: 14/05/2009
Respondent: South East Essex Friends of the Earth
It is clear to anyone with even an ounce of common sense that the policies and proposals in the plan are *not* realistic or deliverable. The numbers for job creation seem to have been plucked from thin air and bear no relation to the experience at other airport sites. The target number of passengers also appears to have been selected at random with no regard for the dire effect it would have on the surrounding area. It seems very unlikely, given the recession we are entering, that these numbers are even achievable, particularly given the current decline in aviation passengers.
It is clear to anyone with even an ounce of common sense that the policies and proposals in the plan are *not* realistic or deliverable. The numbers for job creation seem to have been plucked from thin air and bear no relation to the experience at other airport sites. The target number of passengers also appears to have been selected at random with no regard for the dire effect it would have on the surrounding area. It seems very unlikely, given the recession we are entering, that these numbers are even achievable, particularly given the current decline in aviation passengers.
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London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
6 Timetable - Your Views
Representation ID: 12485
Received: 14/05/2009
Respondent: South East Essex Friends of the Earth
Given the two extensions to the second-phase consultation deadline, it is clear that the timetable for step 3 onwards must be pushed back and Nigel Holdcroft tells me that the Pre-submission consultation will not happen before September. One expects the statutory consultation to request formal proofs of evidence from people rather than the entirely unsatisfactory method used in the current phase - making people cram their responses into 100 words. It is also vital that contributions to the current consultation are used to shape the submission document in exactly the way the first phase consultation failed to shape the second.
Given the two extensions to the second-phase consultation deadline, it is clear that the timetable for step 3 onwards must be pushed back and Nigel Holdcroft tells me that the Pre-submission consultation will not happen before September. One expects the statutory consultation to request formal proofs of evidence from people rather than the entirely unsatisfactory method used in the current phase - making people cram their responses into 100 words. It is also vital that contributions to the current consultation are used to shape the submission document in exactly the way the first phase consultation failed to shape the second.
