tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79394563030632158132023-12-26T13:47:38.974-08:00Manston DCO NewsGod help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-59233576421616913722023-10-18T09:20:00.003-07:002023-10-18T09:20:49.440-07:00Yet another RSP puff piece<p> From Kentonline 18/10/2023</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The ongoing High Court legal battle over the future of
Manston Airport has cost those behind the plans to revive it at least £200,000,
it has been revealed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to the soaring legal bills – and bitter division
on the Isle – plans for the Thanet airfield to reopen as a cargo hub have now
been delayed by four years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the <b>team</b> behind the project say despite feeling moments
of “exasperation and annoyance” at the legal challenges put in their way, they
remain confident it could be cleared for take-off, finally, in just a matter of
weeks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>What team the other directors are foreign nationals?</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They have also reiterated that investors remain ready,
despite the lengthy delays, to plough in the hundreds of millions of pounds
needed to get the site up and running.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If it clears what must surely be its final legal hurdle, work
on the site could finally begin next year – the 10th anniversary of when the
site saw the shutters pulled down and cease operation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“You have to just stay confident in the strength of the
case," reflects Tony Freudmann, director of RiverOak Strategic Partners
(RSP), who has become the public face of the airport’s hoped-for revival.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“And the case is overwhelmingly strong.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>So the last 7 sentences were Fraudmann letting off steam, however any investigative journalist worth their salary would have asked just what the Department of Transport paid them the princely sum of £8.5 MILLION for, allegedly this was for "delays". So £200K seems small beer and has left them plenty left over.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But it is far from that to Jenny Dawes. She is the Ramsgate
resident who has led crowdfunding campaigns to battle the plans.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a saga which has divided the people of Thanet over the
years, she has spearheaded the opposition campaign.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She insists “the re-opening of Manston Airport would result
in irreparable harm to the people, the economy, the natural environment and the
heritage of the towns and villages of east Kent”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RSP says it will bring jobs and economic vitality to the
whole of east Kent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Just like the past then? It has never employed more than 140 people</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The battle lines are well established.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To briefly recap the current legal battle, the airport’s
plans were considered a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP).
As the name suggests, this applies to big infrastructure projects such as major
road schemes, power plants or airports.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In these relatively few cases, rather than planning
permission being handled by the relevant local council, it is instead ruled
upon by Whitehall.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To allow it to proceed it requires a Development Consent
Order (DCO).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Manston, this was originally granted in 2020. Enter
Jenny Dawes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The reworded DCO was issued in September 2022</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She was successful in winning a judicial review into the
DCO. In other words, asking for a High Court judge to review the decision taken
by a government body – in this case, the Department of Transport.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In January 2021, she was successful and the DCO was quashed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>It was successful because the SoS failed to provide proof there was a need. Even today he has ignored the Examination result and the conclusions of their own £150K report from Ove Arup</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dtjOpzrVeHVNHzW1GMHXD-0uXrcsiTWzMIFVZHmzkAEkpjYD3wm7U0mXTvMw_1e-4LI8FWOHU-7KTVK1ROnkHlRKxqNAcuhlqJqUabGTNQa-dkY7Z0Zvo1MXSP5HCWCuj50rs5rGyRNmGblvpiwKBvvZUjG0F35kK1jix-JqcAiIyJvQRLfJvJTc5Jw/s805/Screenshot%202021-10-23%2020.28.59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="543" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dtjOpzrVeHVNHzW1GMHXD-0uXrcsiTWzMIFVZHmzkAEkpjYD3wm7U0mXTvMw_1e-4LI8FWOHU-7KTVK1ROnkHlRKxqNAcuhlqJqUabGTNQa-dkY7Z0Zvo1MXSP5HCWCuj50rs5rGyRNmGblvpiwKBvvZUjG0F35kK1jix-JqcAiIyJvQRLfJvJTc5Jw/w270-h400/Screenshot%202021-10-23%2020.28.59.png" width="270" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Going back to the drawing board, a new DCO application was
submitted and, again, granted. Ms Dawes challenged it again and an application
for a second judicial review to be held was granted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, following a hearing in July, last month it was
confirmed the judicial review bid was being rejected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Now Ms Dawes has just two weeks remaining in which to raise
the funds necessary to challenge that decision (not the DCO itself) in the
Court of Appeal. She has stated she intends to do just that.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If she doesn’t apply then the legal challenge, finally,
grinds to a halt. If she does, the uncertainty will continue for several more
weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While remaining tight-lipped on its hopes, the mood within
RSP is optimistic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jenny Dawes, notoriously media-shy, is doing the same. She
has, throughout her three-year campaign, refused to give any media interviews
(including a request from KentOnline for this article).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b> I doubt KOL understands that Jenny is not required to kiss the arse of the press</b></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On her crowdfunding platform, she wrote of the
“disappointing decision” last month, adding last week: “Despite apparent
setbacks, I remain firmly of the view that the government's decision to proceed
with Manston Airport, in the face of expert evidence to the contrary and in the
context of the worsening climate crisis, is nonsensical, and the procedure
followed by the Secretary of State was deeply flawed.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friends of Ms Dawes have also expressed increasing concern
about the level of vitriol aimed at her online in any debate over the future of
Manston. As the name linked to trying to stop the plans, she has become a
target. Little wonder, perhaps, she keeps such a low profile.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That concern about the personal attacks is a view shared by
RSP’s Tony Freudmann. He said: “It’s just unpleasant. I get some as well. I
mean, these are just keyboard warriors. This is the world we live in,
unfortunately, isn't it? And if you stick your head above the parapet you have
to expect it these days.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>No evidence has been produced as to the personal attacks on Fraudmann however I suspect it is the truth about his personal business acumen and misappropriations he is talking about.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He agreed with the suggestion that those on both sides of
the debate adopt caution about the sometimes incendiary language used.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Incendiary now that is a laugh even the KOL cannot stop it. Plenty more and far worse available.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YSWn9qkaohh5YIgt29W8CGhxdBxZ4rtMey8KwajiAUdXhk8nzWRvIHLg9NC4nYA4xOsbXHteum4DIZqJsGgLpDD0oR9FMBqe4K56mTn7iVsa7-YDvKt8FlmKsUG4ClmxJsJE445Z2P1wd9Jcu2kLedCsPIKF-cPShbbgatRd0XSESXSWlT_Q-pelOaY/s891/Screenshot%202023-10-18%2011.01.56.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="891" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YSWn9qkaohh5YIgt29W8CGhxdBxZ4rtMey8KwajiAUdXhk8nzWRvIHLg9NC4nYA4xOsbXHteum4DIZqJsGgLpDD0oR9FMBqe4K56mTn7iVsa7-YDvKt8FlmKsUG4ClmxJsJE445Z2P1wd9Jcu2kLedCsPIKF-cPShbbgatRd0XSESXSWlT_Q-pelOaY/w400-h240/Screenshot%202023-10-18%2011.01.56.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Another impact is that all the time money is being spent in
the legal system, there remains no movement on the site itself.</p><p class="MsoNormal">No reason why they cannot. They only have to solve the 24 conditions in the DCO</p><p class="MsoNormal">Conditions: please click this <a href="https://manston-dconews.blogspot.com/2022/08/dco-requirements.html" target="_blank">link</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr Freudmann says: “Uncertainty is the worst thing you can
have with a big infrastructure project. There are, and we’ve said this
repeatedly, investors willing to fund this airport project because it's so
obviously wanted.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Not according to over 15 aviation reports written over the last 12 years</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“But while there is uncertainty hanging over it, of course
they hold off. They want to do this and are just waiting on us to let them know
when the last bit of uncertainty is gone and they’ll be there with us.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those investors have always been kept a tightly guarded
secret.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>That's because they don't exist</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If the legal wrangle is resolved imminently, the design and
detailed survey work will begin in the new year and take the whole of 2024.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Construction work would then begin in 2025 and take around
two years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr Freudmann adds: “So that probably means we’ll open in
2027, which is four years later than we’d hoped.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>“Roughly, our costs are now in the region of £200,000 just
for the High Court litigation. I assume the government’s are of the same
order.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The airport’s current investors are picking up that legal
tab.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Currently RSP owe over £31 MILLION to their beneficial owners registered in the secretive country of Panama.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6wXsdmAXK9xWOT7dC8ueIZaI5-E5kudjktCsEcfIQ8L71jCJWVaVX0Zag6nOF5MCI4LFp7GZfid_MdaD3iuJ70TPgQakboWP7eX3C96KzaueT7dbQklvewwB7qtZm70IHb8brrabPiG4rm-NBjPoNtT4Vop1ULcCdMzihKdGb2hMr511pxHEHco1T7k/s1920/6-7-2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6wXsdmAXK9xWOT7dC8ueIZaI5-E5kudjktCsEcfIQ8L71jCJWVaVX0Zag6nOF5MCI4LFp7GZfid_MdaD3iuJ70TPgQakboWP7eX3C96KzaueT7dbQklvewwB7qtZm70IHb8brrabPiG4rm-NBjPoNtT4Vop1ULcCdMzihKdGb2hMr511pxHEHco1T7k/w640-h360/6-7-2022.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The delays also mean that any passenger flights – a
crowd-pleasing carrot dangled by RSP should the cargo hub prove successful
where other commercial endeavours at the airport have failed – are, at best guess,
at least a decade away.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of which begs the question as to why this saga has been
allowed to drag on?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On one hand, as Jenny Dawes fights for, there is a clear
environmental issue in this era of pressing climate change. On the other, a
project which is promising jobs and industry for an area long denied it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony Freudmann says the government’s planning process has a
lot to answer for.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He explains: “The 2008 Planning Act took decisions on
nationally significant infrastructure projects out of the hands of local
authorities and put them in the hands of central government.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“That was designed to avoid the delays that had taken place
10 years earlier in relation to Terminal 5 at Heathrow. There you had a number
of local authorities battling it out with the owners of Heathrow and it went on
for years and years and it was a disaster.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“So the 2008 Planning Act assumed the government, for
nationally significant infrastructure projects, would produce a national policy
statement. A policy statement in planning terms means a detailed statement of
what they want to happen. So that would apply not just to us but renewables,
roads, railways, everything.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Well, in the case of aviation, they haven't done it. There
isn't a national policy statement for aviation. There was one produced in 2018,
which related primarily to Heathrow, and there's been nothing since. So nobody
in the aviation business knows where they stand.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“So if you come up with a proposal and you want to go to the
private market to fund it and the government doesn't want to put public money
in, the first thing that the private sector ask is, ‘OK, where's the national
policy statement? Where can we read that the government supports this?’, and
they can't. There isn't one.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“If there was a national policy statement which said, in our
case, a new runway in the South East of England is needed for dedicated air
freight because the UK isn't performing in that field, that would have made a
huge difference.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>But there is no need for a cargo up. Current cargo airports can deal with a declining market down 18% already this year. East Midlands is at 29% capacity and Stanstead at 67%</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“It would have speeded the process up and is what investors
want to hear. There's loads of private sector investment out there. But they
want certainty.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And certainty is the one thing the Manston Airport site has
not had for nigh-on 10 years. One way or the other, its future should be
confirmed within weeks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bold and pictures are admin's input</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-51332941582536163992023-10-11T09:08:00.018-07:002023-10-11T09:22:57.766-07:00Facts about aircargo in the UK<p> The latest wheeze from the pro-supporters is that Manston needs to become a cargo hub because in 20 years the United Kingdom will need it.</p><p>Unfortunately NO ONE can tell what the UK will need in 20 years and if the cargo hub is going to last it has to be able to repay the money used for Capital Expenditure fairly quickly not in 20 years. Investors who wait that long are called the United Kingdom Government and currently they have no money. For an example of that look at HS2.</p><p>Now let us talk <b>facts</b>, a subject pro-supporters avoid like the plague.</p><p><u>Some basics</u>:</p><p>ATM (a movement of a plane either take off or landing)</p><p>DCO (a Development Consent Order)</p><p>NSIP ( a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project)</p><p>A Cargo hub needs 10000 ATMs to become a NSIP and be granted a DCO after examination.</p><p>Manston has NEVER EVER achieved 10000 ATMs of cargo since commercial aviation started in 1959.</p><p>Now RSP have said it hasn't enough airfreight stands on site and they intend to build 19 of them, however what they ignore is just how many will remain empty as there isn't enough airfreight available in the UK to fill those stands, Commercial business cannot succeed if there isn't a need.</p><p>There is no such thing as build it and they will come.</p><p>From 1990 to closure in 2014 these are the combined passenger and cargo movements:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnu2ez3U-nQZL7Ad5JCgl39HkcxmAEl9Afaop7q68WIlXAhgEO288QVLkwLT0mhC-rOVFOdeJX_FJulN5eXDaKmMvgFpTEA0HzCrta8q4L4sYTeI4dWIXHlg-iYKulEyllfYYf2HTeAJwBvFJM6EFpRe1Bx6LMTW5gLEQZZ9cXcvC7JbkQNlN4z3MU_DU/s960/Manston%20ATM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="960" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnu2ez3U-nQZL7Ad5JCgl39HkcxmAEl9Afaop7q68WIlXAhgEO288QVLkwLT0mhC-rOVFOdeJX_FJulN5eXDaKmMvgFpTEA0HzCrta8q4L4sYTeI4dWIXHlg-iYKulEyllfYYf2HTeAJwBvFJM6EFpRe1Bx6LMTW5gLEQZZ9cXcvC7JbkQNlN4z3MU_DU/w640-h72/Manston%20ATM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>As you can see from the time Manston became Kent International the best cargo years were 2003-2004 and at no time was cargo ever really busy. This has nothing to do with capacity just to do with a need for Manston for cargo when there are better placed cargo airports.</p><p>What about the future asks the pro-supporters especially as they have been spoonfed the lack of room at other airports. This is simply propaganda from Sally Dixon even the report RSP commissioned shows East Midlands is at 29% capacity and Stanstead has 1/3rd of cargo slots free. Between them Heathrow, Stanstead and East Midlands carry 90% of all aircargo currently.</p><p>The DfT forecast 60000 ATMs but because of covid and the lack of bellyhold both Stanstead and East Midlands picked up some slack however aircargo tonnage is still down on 2017 and 18% on 2019. what the table does show is Stanstead and East Midlands (even in covid times) has the capacity to cope.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIgGMNoaPwrI7P9_V2GbprywMnL1nVv7hQt_7kkJTmAZevIdDz2TVI6GW3RMLauNFeMVN_z-_vocCxJ0rgHTXEXlH54-wwfv2tr55LqndHtY2uysbMcZ6hRY3jVwLZWoxSfGFWeTWkp_ivHce6-ikpvyPzGfByO992tidGLRpixZRt5JE6ADJJKbYZC0/s2048/UK%20freighter%20Market.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1402" data-original-width="2048" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIgGMNoaPwrI7P9_V2GbprywMnL1nVv7hQt_7kkJTmAZevIdDz2TVI6GW3RMLauNFeMVN_z-_vocCxJ0rgHTXEXlH54-wwfv2tr55LqndHtY2uysbMcZ6hRY3jVwLZWoxSfGFWeTWkp_ivHce6-ikpvyPzGfByO992tidGLRpixZRt5JE6ADJJKbYZC0/w640-h438/UK%20freighter%20Market.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><b>In fact between 2000 and 2005 Cargo only ATMs halved as Heathrow majored in bellyhold freight</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbeAzo0pVYciTyIkePI5UX-yS5Cq3M6TxTmzRhICOnDOFmPGRnmy9s3QXY2M1aPgdAdSpUuNo9UI4kEf-ga-7rI-kPRsXpxxZd2SdQKy6_4QxELh8NwlDTAzkCLk_u_7w0vBFLnz4sqH4HG8w4BSQHZZTM756ryEJHSSy4z55_x2mfmbwylu3YjFCN9Fw/s878/Screenshot%202023-10-11%2016.44.29.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="878" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbeAzo0pVYciTyIkePI5UX-yS5Cq3M6TxTmzRhICOnDOFmPGRnmy9s3QXY2M1aPgdAdSpUuNo9UI4kEf-ga-7rI-kPRsXpxxZd2SdQKy6_4QxELh8NwlDTAzkCLk_u_7w0vBFLnz4sqH4HG8w4BSQHZZTM756ryEJHSSy4z55_x2mfmbwylu3YjFCN9Fw/w640-h80/Screenshot%202023-10-11%2016.44.29.png" width="640" /></a></div>So how did Sally Dixon manage to write a report giving Manston the ability to take 20% of all cargo movements when the most it has ever done is 1081 ATMs.<div><br /><div>To answer this question we need to understand the business that has used Manston in the past. Most of the cargo was veggies from Africa that arrived in fully loaded cargo planes and those planes mostly took off empty. A fully laden 747 carried 95 tonnes making the average load 47.5 tonnes. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Now using Sally Dixons own figures they will achieve 10000+ Cargo ATMs in Year 6 carrying just over 180 thousand tonnes. Making an average load of just 17 tonnes per ATM</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zOAHmKyKlPmamL8JMNeFOCdeSHRFKuNzAXWXFwJrStHH5II55YOGyxH5e7lPwyQTswPPbt9nBVjZ3KHlQX9cL4h3B1vbpcYEijaYBD32Yd9Pw0fvgQjd4chrMI4IHjcRyGNW7Tu5BXbkhYY166UHBWHz1JFNwU_OqB1K2yTgCSfQdoaA8ls_3XVmUqQ/s564/sally%20dixon%20figures.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="564" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zOAHmKyKlPmamL8JMNeFOCdeSHRFKuNzAXWXFwJrStHH5II55YOGyxH5e7lPwyQTswPPbt9nBVjZ3KHlQX9cL4h3B1vbpcYEijaYBD32Yd9Pw0fvgQjd4chrMI4IHjcRyGNW7Tu5BXbkhYY166UHBWHz1JFNwU_OqB1K2yTgCSfQdoaA8ls_3XVmUqQ/w640-h574/sally%20dixon%20figures.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Had Manston's normal cargo use been carried through then they would have achieved just 3819 ATMs no way near an NSIP,</div><div><br /></div><div><b>As a famous quote states you have statistics, more statistics and damn lies</b><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-45741579644396978872023-09-27T12:39:00.000-07:002023-09-27T12:39:18.706-07:00The Role of Thanet Council planning during the Manston DCO<p><br /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: none; color: #2b3675; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div aria-controls="_QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8_33" aria-expanded="true" class="dnXCYb" data-hveid="CBgQAQ" jsaction="AWEk5c" jsname="tJHJj" role="button" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: flex; max-height: none; outline: 0px; position: relative; width: 652px;" tabindex="0"><div class="JlqpRe" jsname="lN6iy" style="flex: 1 1 0%; margin: 12px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="JCzEY ZwRhJd" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: unset !important; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="CSkcDe" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 24px;">What is a DCO requirement?</span></span></div><div class="aj35ze" jsname="Q8Kwad" style="background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,<svg focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"%2370757a\" d=\"M16.59 8.59L12 13.17 7.41 8.59 6 10l6 6 6-6z\"></path></svg>"); display: inline-block; height: 24px; transform: rotateZ(-180deg); width: 24px;"></div><div class="L3Ezfd" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMgueEw8uBAxVVUUEAHSkWDf4Quk56BAgYEAI" jsname="pcRaIe" style="height: 48px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; visibility: hidden; width: 652px;"></div></div></div><div class="bCOlv" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMgueEw8uBAxVVUUEAHSkWDf4Q7NUEegQIGBAE" id="_QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8_33" jsname="NRdf4c" style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; opacity: inherit; position: absolute; width: 652px;"><div class="IZE3Td" jsslot="" style="position: relative;"><div class="t0bRye r2fjmd" data-hveid="CBgQBQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMgueEw8uBAxVVUUEAHSkWDf4Qu04oAHoECBgQBQ" jsname="oQYOj" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div id="QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8__21"><div class="wDYxhc" data-md="61" style="clear: none;"><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CBUQAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;">A Development Consent Order (DCO) is <span style="background-color: rgba(80, 151, 255, 0.18); color: #040c28;">the means of obtaining permission for developments categorised as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP)</span>. This includes energy, transport, water and waste projects.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></h2><p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: none; color: #2b3675; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div aria-controls="_QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8_33" aria-expanded="true" class="dnXCYb" data-hveid="CBgQAQ" jsaction="AWEk5c" jsname="tJHJj" role="button" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: flex; max-height: none; outline: 0px; position: relative; width: 652px;" tabindex="0"><div class="JlqpRe" jsname="lN6iy" style="flex: 1 1 0%; margin: 12px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="JCzEY ZwRhJd" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: unset !important; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="bCOlv" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMgueEw8uBAxVVUUEAHSkWDf4Q7NUEegQIGBAE" id="_QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8_33" jsname="NRdf4c" style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; opacity: inherit; position: absolute; width: 652px;"><div class="IZE3Td" jsslot="" style="position: relative;"><div class="t0bRye r2fjmd" data-hveid="CBgQBQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMgueEw8uBAxVVUUEAHSkWDf4Qu04oAHoECBgQBQ" jsname="oQYOj" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div id="QoIUZczZGNWihbIPqay08A8__21"><div class="wDYxhc" data-md="61" style="clear: none;"><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CBUQAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CBUQAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CBUQAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CBUQAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: none; color: #2b3675; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction</h2><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: none; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a name="1." style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2b3675; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></a>1. A Local Authority’s Role</h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.1 Host and neighbouring local authorities have an important role in the PA 2008 process. Participation is not obligatory but is strongly advised. Whilst it is appreciated that local authority resources are limited, relevant authorities are strongly encouraged to discuss and work through the issues raised by NSIP proposals. A local authority will provide an important local perspective at the pre-application stage, in addition to the views expressed directly to the developer by local residents, groups and businesses.<b> Local authorities are likely to become responsible for discharging many of the requirements (akin to planning conditions) associated with an NSIP in their area if development consent is granted. Local authorities are also likely to have a role in monitoring and enforcing many of the Development Consent Order (DCO) provisions and requirements.</b></p><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: none; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30. Roles and responsibilities</h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30.1 A local authority’s role does not usually end once a decision is made by the SoS to grant development consent. As with any planning permission a local authority will have responsibilities to discharge requirements (as discussed earlier) and also to enforce the terms of a DCO. Sections 160 to 173 of the PA2008 set out local authorities’ powers to enforce a breach of the terms of an order granting development consent.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/legislation-and-advice/advice-notes/advice-note-two-the-role-of-local-authorities-in-the-development-consent-process/#:~:text=30.-,Roles%20and%20responsibilities,the%20terms%20of%20a%20DCO." target="_blank">here</a> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Manrope, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.15px;">The DCO contains a Schedule of Requirements , which are in effect the conditions which govern how the project is to be delivered. In terms of approach and content they are broadly similar to conditions found on a planning consent, and seek to govern phasing , design and operation of the project. They also consider practical matters such as landscaping, drainage and lighting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Manrope, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.15px;">In the case of Manston these are written into the DCO document which is discussed in an earlier post. You can read it <a href="https://manston-dconews.blogspot.com/2022/08/dco-requirements.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Assuming the DCO is made and implemented, the local authority will have an ongoing responsibility for monitoring, discharge and enforcement of any requirements. The local authority can also expect to be notified of, and involved in, any applications by the developer to change the DCO.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. The enforcement regime for DCOs is set out in Pt 8 of the Planning Act 2008 and is undertaken by the Relevant Local Planning Authority. The Relevant Local Planning Authority is the planning authority for the area within which the project is situated. In areas where there is both a district and a county planning authority, enforcement of the DCO will still rest with the district authority, except when there is a hazardous waste facility involved where the enforcement of requirements will rest with the County Planning Authority. The enforcement regime has jurisdiction over the development authorised by a DCO and regulated by the schedule of requirements, as well as the ability to take enforcement action against a person who carries out development requiring a DCO without one ("Unauthorised Development").</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Nature of the Enforcement Regime</span>: The regime is broken down into three broad phases:</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investigation and evidence gathering</span>: The monitoring of compliance with the DCO conditions may be delegated to a particular officer within the Council, or as is more likely in the current climate will be a reactive response to a complaint from an aggrieved person. In order to consider whether there has been a breach, the officer of the Council has two principal ways to collect evidence.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. In terms of collecting documentary evidence the officer has the power to serve an Information Notice.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. The notice can be served if it appears to the Local Authority that an offence may have been committed, either in failing to comply with a condition or requirement imposed by a DCO or in respect of Unauthorised Development.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. It is a notice served on the owner or occupier of the land or any person who is carrying out operations on the land or using it for any purpose.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. The notice will request details of the following:<br />a. Details of owners and occupiers<br />b. Details of mortgagees<br />c. Information relating to the operations/activities/uses being carried out in, on, or under the land<br />d. Information relation to any DCO authorising the operation/activities/uses on the land</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. The notice gives a period of 21 days from the date of service for a response to be returned to the Council. A failure to respond is a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. A person who returns a notice with a response that he knows to be false or misleading in a material respect is also guilty of a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. The Investigating Officer, has a right to enter land without a warrant whilst investigating whether there has been a breach of a DCO requirement , or Unauthorised Development. The officer needs prior written authorisation from the Local Authority and if he is to enter a dwelling house there is a requirement for 24 hours prior notice on the occupier. If entry onto the land had been refused and the case is one of urgency a warrant can be applied for at the local magistrates court.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Once the evidence has been collated it will be for the case officer often with legal support to ascertain whether an offence has been committed and whether it is in the public interest to proceed with a prosecution. In reality there is often a period where if there are breaches that require action there may be a period of abeyance whilst the owner/occupier of the land takes the required action to an agreed timetable. In the absence of such a period of abeyance the breach may proceed to prosecution</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prosecution / Injunctive Relief</span>: In the event that evidence is collected and a decision to issue proceedings is made by the local authority this will take the form of a summons issued initially in the local magistrates court. In terms of the summons issued in the Magistrates court, the offences relate to carrying out Unauthorised Development or carrying out development in breach of the terms of a DCO, or failing to comply with the terms of a DCO. The offences are triable either in the Magistrates Court or the Crown Court depending on the seriousness of the offence. On conviction the maximum fine in the Magistrates Court is £50,000 per offence, in the Crown Court the fine is unlimited.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. There is also provision to enable the Local Authority to apply for an injunction against a person or organisation where it considers it expedient or necessary for any activity that may be taken or is about to be taken should be restrained by the court . Such enforcement powers would be used sparingly and are only normally exercised when there is a real prospect of an installation of perhaps a nuclear power station not being constructed in accordance with the DCO consent.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13. The proceedings must be issued within strict time limits. In respect of Unauthorised Development or a breach of the terms of the DCO, within 4 years of substantial completion of the development, or if an Information Notice is served, or an injunction is issued four years from the date of service of the information notice or date of issue of the application for an injunction as is appropriate.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notice of Unauthorised Development and Works in Default</span>: In the event that the Local Authority secures a conviction against a person who has committed an offence pursuant toss.160 or 161 of the Act, the Local Authority has the ability to serve a Notice of Unauthorised Development on the convicted person. The notice can set out a number of steps and activities that are required to be carried out and can involve the removal of any unauthorised developments, the restoration of the land to its previous condition. The notice also has to set out the steps required to remedy the breach or failure. It must also set out the time period within which the various steps must be undertaken, and different periods of time can be specified for different steps in the notice.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. In the event that the steps specified in the Notice of Unauthorised Development are not completed by the end of the period stated in the notice, the Local Authority has a discretion to take action in default. The Local Authority has the ability to enter onto the land and take the required steps and then seek to recover from the person who is convicted any expenses reasonably incurred. This will normally involve the local authority to seek three quotations for the work to evidence the reasonableness of the costs that may be incurred, carrying out the works and then seeking recovery of the sums incurred.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16. In addition, if a Notice of Unauthorised Development has been served and the owner of the land has incurred expenditure in seeking to comply with the notice, and or has met the costs of the Local Authority acting in default, those costs are deemed to be incurred for the use and at the request of the person who is convicted of an offence. At present those sums can be recovered from the convicted party, the means of securing the repayment of costs has not been precisely defined , although normal remedies of seeking charging orders on land based assets and other debt recovery process are anticipated.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17. The practical issues that I can foresee arising, are concerned around the nature and scale of works in default that may have to be undertaken by a district council. In the current financial climate many smaller authorities will have ever decreasing reserves and a shrinking budget. It would not be difficult to foresee a situation where a significant percentage of the revenue budget of the authority could be targeted to carry out works in default on a nationally significant project. If this is financed by borrowing or some other method and recovery is not straight forward and immediate, this could have budgetary consequences for the authority in the next fiscal year. The position could lead to a reluctance on the part of the authority to carry on works in default. It does not seem appropriate to burden the smaller authorities with the enforcement of such large scale national projects.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other complementary enforcement regimes involved in a Development Consent Order</span>: As set out above there is an element of the consent process that has safeguards built in to protect those agencies and bodies that have jurisdiction over statutory regimes. These consents can if agreed be deemed to be granted as part of the DCO process, there are other categories of consent that are not deemed as part of the DCO process, and require consent to be obtained as the project develops, and there is provision for the necessary consents to be obtained out with the DCO process. If there are conditions imposed in respect of a consent which are breached or works take place in the absence of a consent, then enforcement of those breaches will not fall to the relevant local authority, but will be enforced by the relevant agency.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19. The enforcement of any breaches are likely to be as a response to a complaint, or as a result of a parallel investigation by the relevant local authority in response to breaches of the requirements of the DCO.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can read the original <a href="https://www.ashfords.co.uk/insights/articles/development-consent-orders-enforcement" target="_blank">here</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Manrope, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-28807174130083894132023-04-30T14:15:00.025-07:002023-05-01T11:54:59.972-07:00Timeline 2005-2015<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">A History
of Manston Airport from July 2005 to 2015</span></b></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2005</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mr. Tony
Freudmann had overseen Manston’s transfer from an RAF base to a commercial
operation. He was Senior Vice President of Wiggins Group between 1994 and 2005.
He was ‘let go’ by Wiggins in February 2005. He is now the spokesman for the
RiverOak consortium*1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">*1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“KCC-Position-Statement-on-Manston-Airport”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2006</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The airport
was sold to Infratil for a sum reputed to be around £17M and separately Kent
International Business Park (70 acres hived off to raise £4M for investing in
further airports) was sold to Kent County Council (KCC) for £5.35M *1. <b>During
Wiggin’s tenure the area of Manston reduced from 1100 acres to 720 acres.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anthony
Freudmann (who resigned from Wiggins/Planestation in Feb 2005) approaches KCC with
a view to building a Manston to Virginia US holiday route using his “experience”.
His initial report costing £50K was followed by further invoices totaling £176K
then in early 2007 KCC invested a further £289K in the venture. There were no
ticket sales and the project was abandoned by KCC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2007-2009</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Infratil
invests heavily in Manston</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Infratil
Limited is a successful company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange with
the primary purpose of investing in electricity distribution, public transport
and ports. The company was established in 1994 with NZ$50m of capital. At the
time it acquired Manston and Prestwick airports it controlled assets worldwide
in excess of NZ$ 4.4 billion. Following Wiggins’ demise, Infratil Limited
bought Manston Airport from the Administrator for £17 million in August 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition
to Manston, Infratil also owned Prestwick, Flughafen Lubeck, Wellington and
Auckland Airports. Its master plan for Manston (published in November 2009)
envisaged building a new passenger terminal to accommodate up to 3 million passengers
per annum. It also envisaged building a parallel taxi way to the runway and an
increase in the freight and passenger aprons. At the time of publishing its
plan the airport was handling 32,000 tonnes of freight per annum. The master
plan envisaged freight growth of between 4% and 6% per annum to equate to
approximately 167,000 tonnes of freight per annum by 2018. It also planned on
developing corporate jet facilities with an executive terminal.” *1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>In 2009 the
airport was handling fewer than 50,000 passengers per annum, the airport
employed approximately 100 people, some full time and some part time and cargo
was just 30038 tonnes.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2010 -2011</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Infratil
approached Thanet District Council (TDC) with a view to altering the current
flying agreement (S106) to allow cargo flights between 11pm and 7am. At the
time of requesting this approximately 50% of cargo flights (20% overall) were arriving during
the night anyway. A series of reports were commissioned to support this request.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2010-10-BAP-report-Night-Noise-Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2011-08-Economic-IMPACT-of-Night-Flying-Policy-York-Aviation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2011-10-BAP-Noise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TDC’s response
was to debate the request in chambers and then to ask MORI to run a poll in
Ramsgate to determine the response from the electorate. This Poll was
overwhelmingly against Infratil’s request. TDC then told them NO. In response Infratil put the airport
up for sale with Price Waterhouse Cooper. It was to remain unsold for nearly two years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>Anthony
Freudmann 2006-2011</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On leaving
Planestation, Anthony Freudmann became involved in the travel industry. His
parents had established a travel business in the 1960's and his brother,
Steven, took the helm of the family firm, Majestic Travel and rose to the top
of the industry. He was a director of ABTA for 18 years and it’s President during
1997-2000. The complexities of Anthony Freudmann’s relatively brief involvement
in the travel industry precludes a detailed analysis. There were a number of
acquisitions. Some of these acquisitions would seem to have been direct whilst
others were made through Alpha Consolidations Ltd and Alpha Prospects PLC,
companies founded with his brother Steven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anthony's
travel companies included Carefree Travel acquired on 22/3/07, Radiant Travel
22/3/07 Travel Club of Upminster, (founded in 1936), Upminster Travel, Austria
Travel all acquired on the 19/1/09. Majestic Travel, the old family firm was
purchased from his brother Steven on 6/2/09. Seligo Holidays 23/2/2009 A useful
summary from Travel Trade Gazette of the state of play on 19th March 2009 goes
some way to unravel the complexities. “Steven Freudmann is a director of Alpha Prospects,
a plc listed on the Junior Plus stock market and set up in 2008 to invest in
travel companies. His brother Tony Freudmann was a director of Unpackaged
Holidays Ltd of which Seligo was a trading name. Tony Freudmann is also a
director of The Travel Club, the company which bought the assets of Unpackaged Holidays.
Tony Freudmann is also a director of Unpackaged’s parent company, UHN Ltd, of
which Alpha Prospects has an option to acquire. Tony Freudmann is also a
director of Seligo Holidays Ltd, which was set up in February and could now
become the trade arm of The Travel Club. Alpha Prospects also has an option to
acquire Alpha Consolidations Ltd, which owns The Travel Club Ltd.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was not
very long before all of these companies, with the exception of Anthony and
Steven's Alpha Prospects, bit the dust. Steven resigned his Directorship of ABTA
after calls to do so from creditors of Seligo / Unpackaged and at a time when
he was due to face questions from the board regarding the collapse of and
involvement in, the Unpackaged Group run by Tony and Alpha Prospects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2011-2013</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During this
time when Manston was being touted for sale by PWC attention was also focused on
Lahr in the German Black Forest by Tony where Messrs. Joshi and Soards were being
fronted by Anthony Freudmann in the acquisition of that airport using a company
called INTEGERAL LIMITED (06602485) which was ordered to be wound up on the
28/2/2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“In June
2012 Anthony Freudmann returned to Lahr. Equipped with a business plan that
might sound very familiar. The focus would be on freight, aircraft stripdown and
recycling, a new West African Airway would establish a base, there would be
aviation related industry and parking and leasing of aircraft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In fact,
nothing happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In October 2012 an
article in Stadtanzieger commented on the workers at the airport not having
been paid but stated that the Mayor had been reassured by Mr. Freudmann that
the payments had been initiated. Two weeks later on the 14th November when the
wages were still not paid, the same paper quoted Mr. Freudmann as saying that
he had no comment to make as it was a “private matter”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By January
30th 2013 there was considerable speculation as to what was going on and the
local press stated that the editorial team had not seen Anthony Freudmann at
Lahr since the 5th October 2012. However the 30th January 2013 was a
significant day for Integeral Investments for reasons other than the
speculation at Lahr, for they were in the High Court in London for the final
hearing of a contested winding up petition and a counter application for the
company to be placed into administration. Whilst Mr. Freudmann was representing
Integeral on the ground at Lahr, a winding up petition in respect of the
company had been presented to the High Court on the 25th July 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However,
what is perhaps more striking is that the court heard evidence to the effect
that in fact, Integeral was insolvent “from (at least) late 2011". The
significance of this of course is that it would seem that Integeral was
insolvent before they even got involved in the Black Forest Airport. Now of
course it could be that Anthony Freudmann was completely oblivious to this
state of affairs in which case one would have to question the absence of his
making his own enquiries as to the status of the company he was representing. The
judgement does however have a mention in passing in that is with regard to this
project that Integeral owed a Mr. Douglas John Maggs the sum of £460,000, thus
revealing Maggs (through a company) as an investor in the Lahr project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DJM lived at 11 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K
3QA, an address that becomes important later in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Back to Manston <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A number of
previously unpublicised facts emerged from the evidence presented to the Select
Committee, ‘Small Airports’ inquiry, among which, was that it was Anthony
Freudmann that introduced Anne Gloag to Prestwick and Manston Airports as
potential business ventures. Both airports being owned at that time by New
Zealand company Infratil. Anne Gloag’s company purchased the latter only, with
an announcement to that effect being made on the 29th November 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We now know
that just two months after the deal that he brokered goes through, Mr.
Freudmann decided that he wished to purchase the airport himself. This first
came to light in an interview Anne Gloag gave to the Kent Messenger on the 8th
August 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In relation to a question
asked about enquiries being made as to the potential of house building on a
part of the airport lands known locally as the Northern Grass, she had this to
say. "<b>This representation was initiated, promoted and paid for by Tony
Freudmann and Annax Aviation who had indicated they wanted to purchase the
airport at that time and were keen for consideration to be given to alternative
uses for the Northern Grass to be included in the Local Development Plan</b>. The
representation was not made by us. We did attend one meeting with the council,
Mr. Freudmann and his planning advisor, when we were made aware it was
happening, as we had concerns and felt, as the landowner, we should be
represented"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGgQ88JPu350DBIsiw6cmhldAunBCgYeo0xsurZ_WDaU2yxf1qT20ao2Kr3jcXNhDc-hd3r9GjYAtTTjfTeQjzUIOnJzVIzuDQJVkjOj7QL2RjknTFvNc5qCJMmuKoGuZi79ybhvcQDj2bV5dTpA71X__Ocls4ThRftf15rskAw7eSNb2te9aBnfI/s960/ANNAX.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="539" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGgQ88JPu350DBIsiw6cmhldAunBCgYeo0xsurZ_WDaU2yxf1qT20ao2Kr3jcXNhDc-hd3r9GjYAtTTjfTeQjzUIOnJzVIzuDQJVkjOj7QL2RjknTFvNc5qCJMmuKoGuZi79ybhvcQDj2bV5dTpA71X__Ocls4ThRftf15rskAw7eSNb2te9aBnfI/w225-h400/ANNAX.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US"><div><span lang="EN-US"><b>Check the address where Annax was registered.</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>Anthony had
approached a businessman with a view to buying Manston for £8M with £2M of
working capital. Annax Aviation Ltd (</span><span face=""GDS Transport", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">08576648</span><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: "GDS Transport", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">)</span>, now dissolved, was incorporated on 20 Jun 2013 and
Freudmann had been in the process of approaching Thanet Planning department
with a proposal to build 1000 houses on the Northern grass. When that collapsed
through failure to acquire the funding, Freudmann approached Ann Gloag. Her
evidence to the select committee on airports said:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcViB_6fgOC5i9qb07Wh2ny4le3inSBlcw00qwduAeGXlIFKKAyPS93SeHpaT_QmqSXC2MlbIeHZO9IPI1SenBHnXjn3Q3Saihm01-nZFgfdVBH9R4m6V_namUFQ8uo2ZITLeiXAeWAkbRrIlDqw91lRbPhk5InV85amh9kIuijns2KNme_kGJY_DH/s960/Paul%20Fay%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcViB_6fgOC5i9qb07Wh2ny4le3inSBlcw00qwduAeGXlIFKKAyPS93SeHpaT_QmqSXC2MlbIeHZO9IPI1SenBHnXjn3Q3Saihm01-nZFgfdVBH9R4m6V_namUFQ8uo2ZITLeiXAeWAkbRrIlDqw91lRbPhk5InV85amh9kIuijns2KNme_kGJY_DH/w480-h640/Paul%20Fay%202.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2DQuz4myDPf4jKk-AOiuBSSCR5uA0e4qrX7tuzHc77wkboJn5Juxe7WBYL3at6AAKNUST0d8J8B8THUOv297gaoiX9j27LXXXxoykI3pK5BzovCHj35eTxHVeDb-HCDQUO3-zegnVi4qbO7xumm8PiNpqU1RNMw266BJDBdRT-2X0gTcFTJ0RWQ5/s618/Northern%20Grass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="618" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2DQuz4myDPf4jKk-AOiuBSSCR5uA0e4qrX7tuzHc77wkboJn5Juxe7WBYL3at6AAKNUST0d8J8B8THUOv297gaoiX9j27LXXXxoykI3pK5BzovCHj35eTxHVeDb-HCDQUO3-zegnVi4qbO7xumm8PiNpqU1RNMw266BJDBdRT-2X0gTcFTJ0RWQ5/w640-h430/Northern%20Grass.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">“This
submission is provided on behalf of Manston Skyport Limited, following a
written invitation from Mr. Nick Beech on November 6th 2014 to submit written
evidence to assist the Select Committee in its review of the viability of
regional airports in the UK.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The
opportunity to acquire Manston Airport was introduced to us by a consortium
including a former executive of the airport prior to its insolvency in 2005 (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anthony Freudmann, Douglas Maggs et al</b>).
At that time it was part of a larger transaction involving Prestwick Airport,
in Scotland.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The sale
consisted of two businesses, Infratil Kent Airport ltd and Infratil Kent
facilities Ltd (being the operating company and the property owning company
which made up the airport business).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In fact by
November 2013 Ann Gloag had purchased the airport and debts and then set out to
see if it could be viable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><u>2014-2015</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Gloag’s
words to the select committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Two key
executives were brought in to the business to conduct a thorough review of the
business and to report to shareholders on options for the future. One of these
executives was a highly regarded Chartered Accountant who had worked on
numerous turnaround strategies on behalf of funders and investors; the other
was an industry professional with extensive aviation experience, and who
crucially had led a team that had successfully turned around a UK Regional
Airport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The remit
given to the turnaround team was to put in place strong cash management
procedures as this had been a key concern of our advisors during the due
diligence period; and secondly to consider how income generation at the airport
could be enhanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the time
of purchase, a number of possible upsides had been identified. The key three
ones were:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3.2.1. <b>That the Davies Commission would
support making best use of existing runway capacity and not support a further
runway in the SE.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3.2.2. <b>The British Airways cargo operations at
Stansted could be migrated to Manston.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3.2.3. <b>That Ryanair would set up a major new
base at Manston.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whilst all
of these options had been considered and assessed, by Christmas 2013 it became
clear that Ryanair, after two profits warnings was undertaking a major
strategic review and announced it was moving from a policy of remote airports
to more central ones. The Davies commission had published its options
assessment, which did not favour Manston, but further capacity at either
Heathrow or Gatwick (or, at that stage, possibly the Thames Estuary). In
addition, shortly thereafter, British Airways announced they were terminating
their cargo operations at Stansted- and not migrating them elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same
time it became clear that the airport’s finances were in a worse state than had
been understood during purchase negotiations, with losses significantly higher
than expected including a large number of outstanding commitments that had been
omitted from the sale information. For example, a radar, which had been
installed some years ago, had outstanding payments due within a year of
purchase of around £420,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In
addition, during the review of the business, the consortium (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Freudmann, Maggs et al</b>) who had
originally introduced the opportunity to Manston Skyport continued to negotiate
with the new owners to purchase the airport. However despite many deadlines
coming and going, this consortium consistently failed to demonstrate proof of
funds and failed to complete on any of the dates they had promised. (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Where have we heard that before?</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
business review concluded that losses would continue into the future and that
cash of over £10m would be required to maintain airport operations over the
following three years. Even if all of the possible changes were delivered and
if no existing business departed, resulting cash requirements over the
three-year period would be over £7m. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Critically,
at the end of the three-year horizon, there was no prospect of the business
becoming profitable</b>. The Directors of Manston Skyport very carefully
considered the situation. They were not in a position to continue to fund the
business’ losses indefinitely and with no credible buyer available, they
resolved to inform the Directors of the airport that, as shareholders, they
could not continue to fund the business, in the absence of a realistic
expectation of future returns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Around 25
staff had chosen voluntary redundancy prior to the date of closure and a
further 15 were retained to support the closure activities. Around 100 staff
were made redundant on the date of closure, 15 May 2014.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After it
became clear the Anne Gloag had taken the decision to close the airport and it
would seem that Tony Freudmann then went in search of financial backers to
purchase the airport. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A
businessman, resident in the Columbian city of Bogota, expressed an interest in
investing in the airport to Sir Roger Gale who immediately referred him to Tony
Freudmann. Doubts grow as to whether the ING bearer bonds that he presented as
evidence of capital were in fact genuine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">RiverOak
Investment Corps of Connecticut are then named as the new investors. It was
said that Tony was at a conference in Canary Wharf where he met the MD Steve
DeNardo and the rest as we know is history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">RiverOak<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<span style="color: #0070c0;">Following the failure of negotiations between Anne Gloag
and RiverOak the suggestion was made that the Airport should be made the
subject of a Compulsory Purchase Order and whilst it is not entirely clear from
whom this idea emanated, it was taken up with gusto by the Member of Parliament
for North Thanet with the orchestrated backing of the various groups wishing to
see Manston returned to its former usage. That the use of such a draconian
measure to deprive one set of people of their land in favour of another group,
one might suppose would sit quite uncomfortably with a Conservative politician.
Apparently not, as despite the bullish approach of the US Company, with their
schoolboy gibes of “my lawyers better than your lawyer” he has not only
continued his support for a Compulsory Purchase Order, he has accused Anne
Gloag (under the protection of Parliamentary Privilege) of being a liar. What
is surprising is that when it became apparent that, in whatever capacity, the
two former directors of Integeral were involved with Riveroak, that anyone
seriously considered that Thanet District Council would even entertain further
dealings with the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the
Council’s troubles in the past with outside companies it might be hoped, that
they would have by now developed an ultra-cautious approach to such
dealings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any event, despite various
extensions TDC determined that RiverOak had not met its criteria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That should perhaps have been the end of the
story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However Sir Roger has continued in his quest to have the airport lands
delivered to the US Corporation and has raised questions as to whether the
purchase of 80% of the controlling company by the developers of Wynyard and
Discovery Parks was indeed a ‘real’ sale back in September. Supporters of the
airport have become obsessed with the ‘real’ ownership of the land and spent
hours trying to prove that in fact, Anne Gloag was the ‘real’ owner. Sir Roger
even managed to divert the Transport Select Committee from its brief of looking
at the role of smaller airports into an inquisition into who owns land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When RiverOak made Anthony Freudmann a Partner and Managing Director of
RiverOak, it was clear that he was to represent their’ hands on experience of
aviation and airports’. Given what might be considered by some, a less than
impressive track record in keeping companies afloat and given that none has
seemingly thrived under his management, why would anyone think that he was the
right man for the job of getting Manston flying again. The suspicion must
remain that Douglas Maggs has involvement with the Manston project Has he and
Messrs. Soards and Joshi be hiding in the wings? Some, including the writer
believed so and to get an answer one way or the other, wrote to Mr. DeNardo
asking this question on the 12th December 2014 but still await a reply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same question was put to Sir Roger Gale
by e-mail on 3rd February 2015, he was good enough to respond very quickly but
did not answer the two questions posed, i.e. why he had such confidence that
Anthony Freudmann was the right man to turn the airport around and as to
whether Joshi, Soards or Maggs had any involvement in any capacity in Riveroak’s’
Manston ‘venture’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a second e-mail
the writer elaborated on Tony Freudmann’s career and gave further information
regarding the ‘Lahr’ project, again, asking the question as to whether the
three men were involved. The reply, suggested that the information (all
garnered from the public domain) might be libelous to Tony Freudmann. Again the
question remained unanswered. This might suggest that not only are these three
men involved but that Sir Roger Gale is fully aware of their involvement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It would have course been very easy for Sir Roger to simply state “to
the best of my knowledge and belief none of the named parties are involved in
any capacity in the RiverOak Manston project” that he did not, might perhaps
suggest that they are and that he was unwilling to confirm this fact.
Confirmation of Mr. Maggs involvement has been provided in the form of
correspondence submitted into the evidence of the Select Committee on 23rd
February 2015.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>“Re: Letter dated 2lst November 2014. On a more
general note you (Roger Gale) continue to champion the cause of Riveroak who we
have tried to contact and who seem reluctant to talk to us (Mssrs Cartner &
Musgrave). We have recently been approached, via a third party, by Mr. Maggs,
who claims to be working with them (Riveroak) and who asked for our contact
details, which we gave. He has an interesting history (he was made bankrupt in
2016) of failed property ventures and controversial housing scheme proposals
attached to his name and we weren’t aware until recently of his involvement.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<span style="color: #0070c0;">This correspondence dated 25th November 2014 was submitted
in rebuttal of Sir Roger Gale’s evidence to the committee that Messrs Musgrave
and Cartner had not responded to his enquiries in respect of the ownership of
the Manston site. This letter suggests that Mr. Maggs represented himself as
“working with RiverOak” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Local reporter Tom Barnes approached DeNardo in respect of Maggs
involvement and he (unlike me) was given the courtesy of a response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The response however raises more questions
than it answers. “RiverOak has never worked with, employed or indeed had any
formal involvement with Douglas Maggs. Mr. Maggs at one time offered to
approach a Discovery Park investor to see if a meeting between RiverOak and the
owners of Discovery Park could be arranged. It went no further than that”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Douglas Maggs according to Company Check has been the former director of
37 Companies. As alluded to in the correspondence cited, he is a property
investor with a certain reputation. According to Company Check, in addition to
his previous Directorships, he currently holds 28 Directorships, these
companies having an asset value of £69 million. Under another registration
number he is the director of Rosslyn Film Partnerships, with assets of just
under £8 million. In addition he is reputed to have considerable offshore
interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So this very busy multi-millionaire just strolled along to RiverOak, a
company he has no connection with and offered to pay a visit to another
company, where he was not known, just to do RiverOak a favour. Such altruism
may damage his reputation. RiverOak and indeed Sir Roger Gale have consistently
relied on what they perceive to be the gullibility of local people and the
unwillingness of the press to look closely at who these people really are. It
is perhaps notable that the ‘denial’ of Maggs involvement does not preclude him
being a ‘potential investor’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What perhaps is remarkable is that the situation ever got to the stage
whereby anyone would seriously entertain doing business with RiverOak. The
involvement of Anthony Freudmann with a string of business failures, including
of the course at the very same airport, should have been sufficient to raise
the alarm. One might have hoped that the sniff of the rest of the Integeral
team’s involvement would have been sufficient for the drawbridge to be hoisted
up back in May 2014. Even when it was revealed that RiverOak had chosen to
incorporate a new company in Delaware to be the indemnity vehicle, the process
continued. (Delaware, whilst hosting legitimate businesses, is also the
favoured state of ‘less legitimate entities’ who appreciate the anonymity given
to investors)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It would seem likely that the momentum for this folly has come from a
very intelligent orchestration of the supporters groups, perhaps manipulation
would be a more suitable term, in a process given an air of respectability and
credibility, by the vehement endorsement of Sir Roger Gale. Like the people of
Lahr, Thanet residents are also being kept in the dark as to the true cost of
this fated enterprise, although it has been remarked by one councillor that the
officers of the council have spent almost all of their time on this project, no
‘formal’ record has been kept according to Freedom of Information
requests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many questions remain unanswered although of course we could all
speculate. Why is RiverOak, a real estate investment company, so keen to obtain
an airport that has never been commercially successful?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they think that Anthony Freudmann’s
revived Wiggins / Planestation and Integeral business plan will succeed for
them, when it has failed for others or do they in fact have their eyes on the
future potential of 720 acres of land for other purposes, after all it was
their Tony who went to the trouble of obtaining the services of planning
professionals back in January 2014? Why in the summer did Anthony Freudmann
incorporate Aviation companies in Ireland?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I suspect that we may never get the whole story. Anyone who has had an
even cursory perusal of the law relating to Compulsory Purchase will be
confident that an opposed CPO would be bound to fail. Even if a new council
were comprised of sufficiently irrational beings as to ignore officer advice,
the CPO will not happen. Whilst I am keen that this matter is now disposed of
with all due expedition, it is my hope that whichever organisation is given the
task of reviewing TDC’s decision making process, that they spare a few minutes
to take a closer look at the persons and entities backed so keenly by Sir Roger
Gale and if appropriate, refer the whole sorry saga to any appropriate
authorities.” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">*2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">*2
submitted to the NSIP DCO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the end
the CPO failed due to Riveroak being unable to complete “Due Diligence”. In
other words they could not provide proof they had sufficient monies to
indemnify Thanet Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-44044241581480284582023-02-21T10:34:00.042-08:002023-10-13T13:56:25.301-07:00aircargo and the consequences for Manston<p> Aircargo is the transportation of goods to and from the United Kingdom and is measured by tonnage transported and the number of air transport movements (ATMs) to carry said goods. Because of the cost of air transport compared to ships or HGVs it is normally reserved for valuable or time constrained goods. It can be 4-8X the cost of HGV or cargo ship transportation.</p><p>Also because of the much higher cost aircargo has been normally limited to a 1/2 of 1% of all other goods tonnage (figures from the Department of Transport DfT)</p><p>Between 2015 and 2018 the tonnage carried had been steadily increasing however most of of this increase was being carried in the hold of passenger planes and being landed at Heathrow which incidentally carries 2/3rds of all airfreight in the UK.</p><p><b>Year<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b><span><b> Passenger plane<span> </span><span> </span></b><span><b> Freighter<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b><span><b> Total<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> % of 2018</span></b></span></span></span></p><p><span><span>2015<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1611432<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 687511<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2299343</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>2016<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1676594<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 707813<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2384407</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p>2017<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1861759<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 760737<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2622496</span></span></span></p><p>2018<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1859178<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 772005<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2631183</span></span></span></p><p>2019<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1763776<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 771646<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2535422 <span style="color: red;">-3.64%</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span></span></span>2020<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 766149<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1236037<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2002186 <span style="color: red;">-23.91%</span></span></span></span></p><p>2021<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 820041<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1447771<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2297812 <span style="color: red;">-12.67%</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span></span></span>2022<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1230059<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 939408<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2169467 <span style="color: red;">-17.55%</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="color: red;">2023 projected<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2108293<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> -19.87%</span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span></span></span>2019 the overall tonnage dropped, which was possibly caused by the Brexit affect, however a far bigger collapse occurred in 2020 and 2021 with covid lockdowns reducing passenger air transport and the massive reduction in bellyhold carriage and the slack being taken up by an increase in pure freighter ATMs. These pure freighter increases benefitted both East Midlands and Stanstead who both still have spare capacity for freighters. The issue however was overall aircargo reduces by 21% on 2019 figures but even more compared to 2018. (23.91%)</p><p>The other way to measure is ATMs and in comparison with the DfT forecasting currently up to 2019 Cargo ATMs were on target (60000 atms by 2030) and then came Covid and a massive drop in Bellyhold cargo with an increase in cargo freighters however far less tonnage was carried overall as seen above.</p><p><b>Table 06 Air Transport Movements</b></p><p>2015<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 56550</span></p><p><span>2016<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 51863</span></span></p><p><span><span>2017<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 52330</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>2018<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 54061</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>2019<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 57561</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>2020<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 83225</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>2021<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 92997</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>2022<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 66027</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>2023 projected<span> 56757</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>As the figures show at the end of 2022 the pure freighter ATMs had started to revert back to 2019 levels however still not yet back on the path the DfT forecast back in 2017.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><u><b>DfT forecast</b></u></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKygRouORmtdGMQVF5v1wqtfAKUgT_nqLA4pG7mlTtHZNTEPBoY9jrC2LW3OW1M0zf1oHAMmVORb8JlMk-K8bwZwB_iPoW0Rh-uhH5uEG6Moj8WeuliJ5DtdZjKCYauW9RUkdpUdkC0YpCjabtFaXpnzM-ORMA858RcnIG2dP7mo-9hilyODeUpTZC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="896" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKygRouORmtdGMQVF5v1wqtfAKUgT_nqLA4pG7mlTtHZNTEPBoY9jrC2LW3OW1M0zf1oHAMmVORb8JlMk-K8bwZwB_iPoW0Rh-uhH5uEG6Moj8WeuliJ5DtdZjKCYauW9RUkdpUdkC0YpCjabtFaXpnzM-ORMA858RcnIG2dP7mo-9hilyODeUpTZC=w640-h440" width="640" /></a></div><br />Riveroak Strategic Partners have based their forecasting on Cargo only freighters which the DfT have forecasted to achieve around 60000 ATMs by 2030 currently the last "normal" year was 2019 which is slowly reverting back to the DfT forecast however, as can be seen by the tonnage figures is a declining method of transporting goods to and from the UK.<span> </span><p></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>It is extremely unlikely that either UK freighter airport, Stanstead and East Midlands, will run out of capacity and currently Heathrow is still the largest cargo airport still with capacity it is difficult to see Manston taking much of the market share especially as all the other 3 have infrastructure to cope with cargo which Manston doesn't have. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>This is Dr. Dixon's forecast from her original report</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1IQYjOf2EPKc8q8kAZ05dhMAD7KAfMRVu9zKy6jGmi5wzKeFWleaEq6ROwRCWZyi19i8iDlFQ_qJ4sjYwfeNKJitKbad5u3RMSFY3JvK_ansKzMC2nCickOHptON1DB6EWOBKo06WwjsD6x8nYqPii6HD5vfR6mLta0ZFUAfQ4lvRqwrdiMGlpMYf/s796/Screenshot%202023-02-21%2019.18.30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="796" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1IQYjOf2EPKc8q8kAZ05dhMAD7KAfMRVu9zKy6jGmi5wzKeFWleaEq6ROwRCWZyi19i8iDlFQ_qJ4sjYwfeNKJitKbad5u3RMSFY3JvK_ansKzMC2nCickOHptON1DB6EWOBKo06WwjsD6x8nYqPii6HD5vfR6mLta0ZFUAfQ4lvRqwrdiMGlpMYf/w640-h624/Screenshot%202023-02-21%2019.18.30.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div><span><span><span><br /> Clearly after just 7 years Dr. Dixon has forecast nearly 11000 ATMs that is 20% of the whole UK Cargo ATMs from a standing start without any current infrastructure in place. Most normal people might believe this is somewhat farfetched </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><p></p><p><br /><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-67248489185579339622023-01-24T13:20:00.002-08:002023-01-24T13:20:35.658-08:00 Riveroak statement after Appeal was refused<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">RSP's statement is in black</p><p class="MsoNormal">Editor's comments in red</p><p class="MsoNormal">Steer report "Steer Assessment-of-the-value-of-air-freight-services-to-the-UK-economy-Final-Report-v22-Oct-2018-b-STEER can be downloaded from <a href="https://airlinesuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Assessment-of-the-value-of-air-freight-services-to-the-UK-economy-Final-Report-v22-Oct-2018-b-SENT.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Manston: an airfreight hub for London & the Southeast<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manston Airport is a unique and important transport
infrastructure asset. An illustrious history as a Battle of Britain airfield
and an exciting future as a vibrant hub for international airfreight,
delivering economic prosperity and employment across Kent and protecting a
strategic aviation resource for the nation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RSP’s proposals for the redevelopment of Manston Airport as
a dedicated airfreight hub have now been approved by the UK Government as a
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once reopened, Manston will help the UK trade across the
globe, importing vital and time-sensitive goods, including fresh fruit and
medical supplies, providing air freight operators with a realistic alternative
to the overcrowded London airports, easing the considerable road congestion
caused by lorries carrying freight through the channel tunnel to European
airports and improving resilience and boost economic growth and jobs in Kent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Ignoring the very real increase in
HGV movements along the Thanet Way onto an already overcrowded A2/M2 corridor
and the QE2 Bridge across the Thames. As Manston isn’t connected to the fuel
pipeline Aviation fuel will have to be trucked from the refinery at Canvey yet
again adding to the congestion at the Dartford river crossing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manston Airport is also unique in that it is deliverable; it
will be ready to open its initial phase in less than three years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Not a spadeful can be turned until
the DCO conditions are complied with including the moving of the HRDF. There
are a number of conditions that need meeting before development starts. Please
read the DCO document pages 35-44. In all 24 conditions MUST be met.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon opening it will:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Immediately absorb the increased demand for air cargo post
COVID and Brexit and relieving capacity pressure on key London airports as they
focus on passenger markets.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Provide an operating base for UK traffic currently lost to
EU airports and create future capacity to meet global freight growth, adapting
to changing market requirements using the latest technology.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When fully built, Manston will be able to handle in excess
of a million tonnes of freight a year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Very careful wording here, “will be
able to handle” is light years away from “will achieve” in fact the Total
tonnage of airfreight in the UK in 2019 (before Brexit and Covid) was 2535422
tonnes and 2020 and 2021 were 21% and 9.38% below that level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Development Consent Order – granted August 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Government has granted the Development Consent Order
because our plans for Manston are consistent with all relevant Government
policies, including the Airports National Policy Statement, the Aviation Policy
Framework, General Aviation strategy and Transport Decarbonisation Plan, and
recognising the contribution Manston will make to resilience in UK’s
under-pressure freight transport sector.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, Manston will make a significant contribution to
the decarbonisation of aviation and so is aligned with the Government’s 2022
Jet Zero consultation outcomes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Government-approved Development Consent Order provides
consent for:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">19 widebody parking stands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4 narrow body passenger stands 65,000m2 (750,000ft2) of
cargo terminal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">100 ha of non-aircraft pavement (247 acres)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">57 ha (140 acres) of aircraft pavement 105,000m2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(1.1m ft2) of landside development<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8 business aviation hangers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3 recycling hangars and aprons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Securing flight procedures for Manston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before Manston can reopen, new air routes must be approved
through an airspace change process set out in the Civil Aviation Publication
(CAP) 1616. The process consists of seven stages and the Manston Airport
proposal has already reached Stage 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">But only after 3 years of work.
Doesn’t bode well for the next 4 stages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RSP has developed a number of options for the flight
procedures that will be required when the airport re-opens. These options will
be subject to a full public consultation, which is currently programmed for
early 2023.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Following this consultation, we will be able to submit our
proposal to the CAA for consideration, with a decision expected during the
course of 2024.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why Manston?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. The global air cargo market is growing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ecommerce giants are transforming the air freight market,
with their share of total sales reaching 25% very soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is inspiring the growth of specialist freighter hubs.
By way of an example, Amazon now has 85 aircraft with a further five on order
and are expected to have 200 by 2028. In Europe alone, Amazon is making 38
daily flights serving eight cities. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">But have recently withdrawn their
aircraft from their hub at Southend and have stated they will truck goods in
instead as cheaper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. The UK is reliant on air cargo for economic growth and
resilience<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">No it isn’t airfreight only accounts
for ½ of 1% of all shipped tonnage with less than 1% annual growth over the
last 20 years. In fact pure freighters atms have dropped by 50% in the last 20
years with the growth of bellyhold mainly at Heathrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maximising international import/export, post-Brexit and
post-COVID, is critical to the UK economy and the UK economy is increasingly
reliant on airfreight to achieve this. Air cargo provides the immediacy that
the UK relies upon for perishables, medicines and other time-sensitive goods<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dedicated freighters carry over 50% of the world’s air
cargo. Airframe manufacturer Boeing forecasts global freighter fleet to grow
more than 60% to 3,260 over the next two decades.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Boeing certainly do but their
forecast for the UK market is less rosy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prior to COVID, more than £2 billion was lost to the London
and Southeast England economy each year due to air freight diverted to Europe
due to lack of capacity. Dedicated freighters could not find suitable slots
anywhere in London and the Southeast – leading to 70% of freight flying belly
hold in passenger aircraft.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">This statement shows a complete lack
of understanding how aircargo is managed. Also it should be apparent that
during operations Manston would have been a closer airport than Liege (European
aircargo hub) but nothing came to Manston despite its inactivity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">COVID has reinforced the cargo sector – and created a
cultural shift that underpins the Manston strategy. One key observation from
the COVID-19 crisis has been the importance of main deck freighters in airplane
fleets and the global air transportation system. Freight use of passenger slots
is unsustainable and inefficient, and many passenger airports lack air freight
facilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Again a lie. Heathrow was the
Premier airfreight hub (2/3rds of aircargo came through Heathrow in the belly
of PAX) however with lockdown and the grounding of PAX much freight was
directed on to pure freighters. Total aircargo dropped by 21% in 2020 due to
this lack of capacity. However 2021 showed a partial recovery (only down 9.38%
on 2019 levels) as PAX resumed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In terms of the security of the UK economy, it is clear that
cargo hubs can increase our resilience as an island nation: COVID-19 showed
increasing critical importance of dedicated air cargo in protecting supply
chain dependability.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Manston has capacity for growth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manston has a strategically useful location by road, rail
freight, air – and water. It has a full length, existing runway 2,748m (9,016
feet), capable of handling all widebody freighters and with a phased
construction plan already developed it can be ready to open in under three
years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Manston has had these advantages
ever since the War Department built the concrete runway 1945/46. I wonder why
no hard headed business people have taken advantage?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, it benefits from proximity to (but remains just
outside of) London and Southeast airspace.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">So is Southend where Amazon has just
walked away from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The airspace over London and the Southeast is among the
busiest and most congested in Europe – with the exception of the airspace over
Manston. The London Terminal Manoeuvring Area (LTMA), west of Manston, handles
aircraft using Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Southend and London City
airports – plus Biggin Hill and Farnborough airfields.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">And Manston will add to if it ever
they get granted a licence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The airspace above Manston is much less congested, with
aircraft at a much higher altitude. It also has capacity for significant future
growth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Airfreight – unable to access slots within the LTMA – is
regularly trucked through the Channel Tunnel or via ferry to airports in
mainland Europe to fly long-haul.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">All 3 main airports for freight are
well able to give slots to freight aircargo. That is Heathrow (Bellyhold is
nearly back to pre-pandemic levels), East Midlands and Stanstead have space
available</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The challenges of
Brexit have motivated UK importers and exporters look for alternatives to the
practice of trucking through the Channel crossings to and from airports in
Northern Europe. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Airfreight is still depressed, 2020
was down 20% on 2019 levels and 2021 down 9.29% on 2019. Trucking is still 4-5X
cheaper than airfreight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From 2025 they will instead be able to direct their business
to Manston as the only airport offering substantial numbers of slots and
capacity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">See above. This statement is wishful
thinking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Other London and Southeast airports cannot handle the
increased demand for dedicated freighters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Both EMA and Stanstead have stated
they have capacity both now and into the future<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boeing categorises congestion in London airports as serious.
The existing London airport runways will soon be back at capacity, and they are
prioritising passenger traffic over freight movements.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heathrow’s third runway was first proposed in 2006 but will
take at least another decade to deliver<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stansted Airport has been granted consent to reduce cargo
movements in favour of increased pax movements<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Again this is a deliberate misuse of
Stanstead’s reduction in aircargo ATMs. What they asked for is permission to
change cargo for PAX as aircargo had failed to grow at the forecasted rate and
had never reached 2/3rds of the allocated ATMs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Passenger traffic growth will absorb almost all UK runway
capacity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Again this is a lie as 4 airports
are currently unviable. That is Cardiff, Southend, Doncaster/Sheffield and
Prestwick and have struggled to find new owners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Current closest alternative cargo airport with realistic
capacity is three hours’ drive from the London M25 orbital motorway<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Which is irrelevant as the main
central warehousing for freight is centred on the “Golden Triangle” in the
Midlands. Manston is 3 further hours away from this “Golden Triangle”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, there are extreme difficulties in obtaining
planning consents for new airports in the UK. So the solution to the capacity
crisis can only realistically come from an airport adjacent to, but outside of
the London Airport system that is already built and can be ready to go quickly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Like Southend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Manston will be built to be Carbon Net Zero<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aviation, and in particular the cargo sector, is not a
luxury that the UK economy can live without and so it is incumbent on airlines,
airport operators and governments to work together to protect its vital role in
the economy, whilst simultaneously striving towards sustainability.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Government has made it clear that it requires ‘high
innovation’ of aviation to meet carbon reduction targets – something which we
have willingly committed to delivering within the terms of the DCO, based upon
the significant levels of investment, innovation and testing on alternative
aviation fuels and technologies underway in the global aviation community.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The facilities at Manston will be built to make an active
contribution to Government carbon reduction targets, with the aim that airport
operations are Carbon Net Zero operation by 2035 through the use of smart and
energy efficient buildings, the use of electric apron vehicles and autonomous
vehicle technology to drive efficiency, the lack of airspace congestion above
Manston and much more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, we are also exploring how we can best utilise
the airport’s river connections into central London, the use of bio/synthetic
fuel, hydrogen and charging for electric aircraft and whether we would be able
to provide any renewable energy surplus to the local community.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Building a strong economic future for Kent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manston will deliver sustainable economic growth and
opportunity in a UK gateway region, supporting regional regeneration, inward
investment and employment targets. By Year 5 we forecast 2,150 jobs on the
airport site and 13,100 indirect/catalytic jobs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RSP is meeting with a wide range of other potential partners
and stakeholders across Thanet and East Kent to explore opportunities and
develop partnerships that will bring additional benefits to local people from
our commitment to reopening the airport.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The airport will provide focused training and career
development for students and adult learners through progressive education and
business partnerships, building on the work established by the Manston Skills
and Employment Board (MSE-B) to ensure people from East Kent have the right
skills to take the wide range of jobs that will be created by the reopening of
Manston.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The MSE-Board considers the future employment and skills
needs of the airport following DCO approval, from planning and construction
through to operation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The aim of the MSE-B is to ensure that Manston and
associated businesses will have access to well-trained and experienced
potential employees across a diverse range of skillsets. The MSE-B will do this
by ensuring a comprehensive range of services are available to young people,
job seekers and employers in the area around the airport.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to RSP, the MSE-B membership currently includes
representatives from:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dover District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canterbury City Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kent County Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EKC Group<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canterbury Christ Church University/EDGE Hub<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kent and Medway Skills Commission<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Education People<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jobcentre Plus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discovery Park<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanet and East Kent Chamber of Commerce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Board representation is available to unrepresented local
councils and business sectors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Manston is the right solution, in the right location, at the
right time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Appendix 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steer report 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Market Analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bellyhold cargo at Heathrow
accounted for over 60% of total UK air freight volume in 2017, with forwarders
and shippers utilising its extensive intercontinental passenger network. Over 30%
of total air freight was shipped on US routes and most of the remainder on
Asian routes. Freighter and integrator cargo is concentrated at East Midlands
and Stansted, which, in 2017, together accounted for over 20% of all UK freight
and the majority of freighter (60%) and integrator (79%) activity. Integrators
accounted for over 90% of freight at East Midlands. At Stansted, integrators
FedEx and UPS were the largest cargo airlines, although intercontinental freighters
such as Qatar Airways, Cargolux and China Southern also accounted for a large
share of volume.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the last 15 years, aside from the
decline in 2009 due to the fallout from the financial crisis, total volumes
have remained relatively flat, growing with a compound average growth rate (CAGR)
of +1.2% over the 15-year period with volumes only surpassing the pre-crisis
peak in 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">North America was the largest
destination market (accounting for 32% of volume), followed by Europe (25%, 18%
of which was to the EU) and, South and East Asia (19%). Heathrow, and to a lesser
extent Gatwick, handled predominately North American and Asian freight,
benefitting from extensive passenger networks. The large European share of
volume at East Midlands reflects the airport’s role within its integrators’
networks. Similarly, at Stansted, much of the freight volume is on European and
North American routes.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Trucked freight</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.24 Alongside the business models
described above, a significant amount of air freight is transported in
customs-bonded trucks between the UK and continental Europe and is classified as
air freight with an assigned flight number. Freight is often flown to
continental Europe, particularly from Asia, as there is often more available
air freight capacity than to UK airports, partly due to lack of available slots
for freighter aircraft at Heathrow. The freight is trucked as bonded freight to
avoid having to undergo local customs procedures so that importers only need to
deal with the UK customs authorities rather than investing in systems to deal
with multiple customs authorities. This represents an inefficiency from the
perspective of the UK economy as whole. See also the Case Study on consumer
electronics imports at the end of this chapter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.25 In contrast to goods from Asia,
Heathrow stated that goods destined for North America are also often trucked to
the UK, in particular Heathrow, from continental Europe in order to take advantage
of cheaper rates from the UK on North American routes. As Heathrow is the primary
European hub for North American passenger connections, there is a significant
level of bellyhold capacity available, which means air freight rates are
cheaper compared to other European airports.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.27 One notable feature of the UK
air freight market is the huge importance of Heathrow and its surrounding
freight facilities, with most forwarders having major consolidation centres in
the vicinity of the airport, as noted in paragraph 2.19 above. Very significant
volumes of air freight are trucked to such facilities near Heathrow, processed
and then trucked to another airport, either in the UK or in continental Europe,
without ever flying in or out of Heathrow itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.28 Another common model is freight
arriving from long haul origins (such as China or the US) flown into Heathrow
and then being trucked to other airports (e.g. East Midlands) to be flown to
continental airports overnight, leading to a symbiotic relationship between the
different airports.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.29 Both of these models mean that
the resilience of the road network to and from airports is an important factor
in reliability of service. To a large extent, they reflect the constraints on
the UK air freight industry"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-65812044666380459422022-09-11T12:54:00.007-07:002022-09-12T09:28:45.608-07:00Conflict of Interest<p> <u><b>A brief history of the South Thanet MP, Craig Mackinlay</b></u></p><p>Craig was born in North Kent on the 7th of October 1966 and stood for Parliament 1st in 1992 as an Independent and failed. He then joined the United Kingdon Independent Party (UKIP) and stood as Parliamentary candidate in 1997, 2001 and 2005 losing each time.</p><p>He then defected to the Tories in 2007 finally standing and winning in a hard-fought battle with Nigel Farage (then leader of UKIP) in 2015. He has kept the seat twice since in 2017 and 2019.</p><p>So why do we have a conflict of Interest.</p><p><u><b>To summarise: -</b></u></p><p>The rules on the registration of shareholdings require Members to register a shareholding if the Member's shares exceed 15% of the total shares issued or have a value of more than £70,000. Although the company had never traded and the shares were of only nominal value, the Member held in excess of 15% of the total and he was therefore required to include this interest in the Register of Members' Interests within one month of his election in 2015.</p><p><b><u>Why we have this rule in Parliament</u></b></p><p>“To provide information of any pecuniary interest or other material benefit which a Member receives which might reasonably be thought by others to influence his or her action, speeches or votes in Parliament, or actions taken in his or her capacity as a Member of Parliament”.</p><p><b><u>His excuse was: -</u></b></p><p>I am conversant with the rules for the registration of interests. I note under Threshold for Registration, paragraph 51(i) and (ii), clarified under paragraph 54 that these are not (i) and (ii) requirements, but are (i) or (ii) requirements. On the face of it, my shareholding - amount to 2 shares of 1 penny, being the entire issued share capital of the company would suggest a requirement to register under 51(i), however this would be a construction of the absurd in this instance. The company was formed on 4 April 2001 when I was pursuing, with outer, the potential for a low-cost airline operation. <b>The idea progressed to a moderately advanced stage but literally fell apart, never to be resurrected again following the events of 9/11 in 2001, whereby for obvious reasons, interest in a new airline literally ceased in its tracks.</b></p><p>In the event Craig apologised for inadvertently misleading the house on 3 separate occasions. The 1st during his maiden speech to Parliament on the 28/5/2015 when he said</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg510aMFKshaG58yov6xIMEcgircuC_Mlb_WMalVNkfbmPJnTNIQuXBsv8Z7d7gaJUlklls2op_ZXEUpegdxqAFhHdfvlB0d2GSDGn_GkbO0Q_YgmGmtsYkHiWcMtvQDjg9YCoJfOxae991gNFmnkNqCmMt9VHCPh1U9A0f8fhQWYeVZgTgIyQ07UeQ/s724/28-5-2015%20manston.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="724" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg510aMFKshaG58yov6xIMEcgircuC_Mlb_WMalVNkfbmPJnTNIQuXBsv8Z7d7gaJUlklls2op_ZXEUpegdxqAFhHdfvlB0d2GSDGn_GkbO0Q_YgmGmtsYkHiWcMtvQDjg9YCoJfOxae991gNFmnkNqCmMt9VHCPh1U9A0f8fhQWYeVZgTgIyQ07UeQ/w640-h140/28-5-2015%20manston.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The 2nd was on 11/6/2015 when he responded as follows</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbiOhRPtMrEDB1N-DI0xcux-8o6SORO8zcCjud6wRgtDBespgse2yFIrVn6tAHAMv69eNqjRl2dLg4fpKC7AwZ4FKJy-s8FXkPK4ix-CVfXHeiDPdILfAd7q9szSdHUv1ipOfLZ3ekACqjniBD_9v73FNfyc995htE3KrkPGKfnLUaSz8lLFDUvH5H/s950/11-6-2015.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="950" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbiOhRPtMrEDB1N-DI0xcux-8o6SORO8zcCjud6wRgtDBespgse2yFIrVn6tAHAMv69eNqjRl2dLg4fpKC7AwZ4FKJy-s8FXkPK4ix-CVfXHeiDPdILfAd7q9szSdHUv1ipOfLZ3ekACqjniBD_9v73FNfyc995htE3KrkPGKfnLUaSz8lLFDUvH5H/w640-h298/11-6-2015.png" width="640" /></a></div>That meeting then went ahead with the North Thanet MP Roger Gale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOL5nYCRgrG88FU0kdlgQ-yRTjLnyyXeJJQupQ3J06LyqJyXGmdRkRGeChoEnOIwS18KSKZVhk_uXZVYed3B8v7SUd42A9x9JUYhSOLaaGHZo6y7EWRui9cjCNc39YpEKh1R_Nt1cuzktUimGaQbHFQ-ZRJ5eEJTAsVwblGPGOo3T75CCXOS_Woj84/s830/discussing%20PwC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="830" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOL5nYCRgrG88FU0kdlgQ-yRTjLnyyXeJJQupQ3J06LyqJyXGmdRkRGeChoEnOIwS18KSKZVhk_uXZVYed3B8v7SUd42A9x9JUYhSOLaaGHZo6y7EWRui9cjCNc39YpEKh1R_Nt1cuzktUimGaQbHFQ-ZRJ5eEJTAsVwblGPGOo3T75CCXOS_Woj84/w400-h260/discussing%20PwC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The 3rd took place on the 7/2/2018 as follows: -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhROCa-iiroIOaVLRHhS-upeCaZrn6HNM6HUvf05rAflKykuBNzE5lqVzjlNHYPWES8QwNQ0wEorjJNl1ivbEacHfC4Jv3SqS7plu_ZkyVOL0fbIRuS9SxpDRYKnIyC9f0Rf88SJ6uPwvd6Qik7WTE7FHvNK-Q7k-4IxrLE9ie-vsxUr2G1WeBY82ZU/s954/7-2-2018%20Hansard.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="954" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhROCa-iiroIOaVLRHhS-upeCaZrn6HNM6HUvf05rAflKykuBNzE5lqVzjlNHYPWES8QwNQ0wEorjJNl1ivbEacHfC4Jv3SqS7plu_ZkyVOL0fbIRuS9SxpDRYKnIyC9f0Rf88SJ6uPwvd6Qik7WTE7FHvNK-Q7k-4IxrLE9ie-vsxUr2G1WeBY82ZU/w400-h339/7-2-2018%20Hansard.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>As an aside to this support of Manston which takes the form of lobbying for Riveroak Strategic Partners (RSP), ostensibly on behalf of the people living in South Thanet, it does seem from a statement made during a fundraising BBQ for the Save Manston Airport Association (SMAa)</div><div><br /></div><div><i>"We all remember that the DCO would have trumped whatever happened on that local plan, <b>but the fear would have been that it had been re-designated away from aviation, it would have instantly inflated the value possibly to unacceptable standards in the future</b>. That was my great worry, and we're out of that, so as Tony said, the EC4 designation of the airport (the old designation), while we have no local plan, still stays the same and is very powerful."</i></div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, as the land at that stage was owned by Stone Hill Park, should RSP be in a position at a later stage to buy the 720 acres it may have cost RSP far more to purchase had it been designated mixed use.</div><div><br /></div>The apology to the house took this form on the 20/6/2018<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxku6wYCIPcgbuVmL2XASjcr_3VTIdYojCXZuwggoI1BmEDBy-ZO6j2_W2Vx5p1Y3w_z9anmCNE-SVDSAVEggSyIQx6-sh1QwJZi80rlLieWdnI8Q3EEIrweHagauBxYsyudYqLcJMECm73iHUfhIOTDX525t5EoiL-R8O5MitoKHk-WNPcKU4ZBc/s939/20-6-2018.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="939" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxku6wYCIPcgbuVmL2XASjcr_3VTIdYojCXZuwggoI1BmEDBy-ZO6j2_W2Vx5p1Y3w_z9anmCNE-SVDSAVEggSyIQx6-sh1QwJZi80rlLieWdnI8Q3EEIrweHagauBxYsyudYqLcJMECm73iHUfhIOTDX525t5EoiL-R8O5MitoKHk-WNPcKU4ZBc/w640-h640/20-6-2018.png" width="640" /></a></div>Craig's apology statement to his colleagues includes the words "<b>It was an idea of its day (incorporated April 2001) and, following the tragedy of 9/11, it never came to anything, and plans ceased</b>"<div><br /></div><div>On the face of it one might wonder why a qualified accountant would keep a dormant company (4193829) on the books of Companies House for 17 years (now 21 years) with all the associated costs involved.</div><div>The company was set up in April 2001 with the following designations</div><div><div>51101: Scheduled air passenger transport</div><div>51102: Non-scheduled air passenger transport</div><div>51210: Freight air transport</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, mimicking the, at that time, the business plans of Wiggins, the owners of Manston under the control of Anthony Freudmann CEO.</div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine my surprise when an archive Google search brought up the following link</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpv0XxElrRfbymAfPp0xXpx-JK2DuP1uSdX8RSIwIAhdqnT9tmTKcWWXFhxF6bhFy2EQcHn8QLKOBi5GN_PEiB4hsH0NBwnf2Id4kgIal0QNkB-ar3vL1d8nN3vnSh9ogzGI8_3jw1el2jsu_4ZC7X4qZrGQ7ZGK5wi-8i6q5qdyzSed0-Ur4dSqn/s1920/Screenshot%202022-09-11%2016.54.15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1920" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpv0XxElrRfbymAfPp0xXpx-JK2DuP1uSdX8RSIwIAhdqnT9tmTKcWWXFhxF6bhFy2EQcHn8QLKOBi5GN_PEiB4hsH0NBwnf2Id4kgIal0QNkB-ar3vL1d8nN3vnSh9ogzGI8_3jw1el2jsu_4ZC7X4qZrGQ7ZGK5wi-8i6q5qdyzSed0-Ur4dSqn/w640-h296/Screenshot%202022-09-11%2016.54.15.png" width="640" /></a></div>This clearly indicates that far from <b>"plans ceased"</b> after September 2001 flights to Malaga were still being discussed. Further this comment includes a link to a website advertising MAMA Airlines which no longer exists however using "wayback" it shows the website still being active <b>until December 2002</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03PYzPyEa1I06S5p9XN4bOaQfmNI_3qO8A5PeUibDjQmlqx-ETdn8dn-CE_hlSL3VotudBqF1Ba6lUh29IJp_Kk80Fj8wtmaiqcRgFbSIqGjJ7AfqpuToqXJ07wzs6ZLDYZSuijItpzTW0Mn4Q6wrPVzE8wXqk4WavKz2MyBV7xr-CsAZjtxhA-Dw/s1920/Screenshot%202022-09-11%2017.02.20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1920" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03PYzPyEa1I06S5p9XN4bOaQfmNI_3qO8A5PeUibDjQmlqx-ETdn8dn-CE_hlSL3VotudBqF1Ba6lUh29IJp_Kk80Fj8wtmaiqcRgFbSIqGjJ7AfqpuToqXJ07wzs6ZLDYZSuijItpzTW0Mn4Q6wrPVzE8wXqk4WavKz2MyBV7xr-CsAZjtxhA-Dw/w640-h318/Screenshot%202022-09-11%2017.02.20.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Clearly it states the following "London's newest airline will put the quality back into air travel with flights from the Southeast to Europe <b>starting Spring 2003</b>"</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe Craig just forgot however there could be an alternate reason. Manston as has been pointed out was run by Antony Freudmann on behalf of Wiggins. His CV is <a href="http://manston-dconews.blogspot.com/2018/10/guest-post-and-freudmann-cv.html" target="_blank">here</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>He states that "<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px;">Tony Freudmann also had the following to say regarding personal accusations thrown at him “I was responsible for Manston’s conversion to a civilian airport, building it up as a cargo airport and then being ‘let go’ when I protested that the EUJet plan made no economic sense.”</span></i></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></i></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">He ran Kent International from 1999-2005 during the time Craig intended to run MAMA Airlines Ltd so it isn't beyond the wit of man to think they worked together and of course despite the terrorist attack on the 11th of September 2001 Kent International didn't stop running flights.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is clear is that there is a longstanding business link between Freudmann and Mackinlay dating back to at least 2001 and this Craig confirms during another fundraiser for SMAa on the 21st of July 2019 when during a speech he made the following statement,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">"</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Well
I’m sorry this is going to be the start of the regeneration and the renaissance
of East Kent, particularly Thanet and that is why I’m so excited. </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">I’ve been working with Tony (Freudmann) for
many years, known him ……We go back quite a long way, even before this odyssey</b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">
and I’m really pleased that this has come to pass, so we can turn the page, reassure
the community that is going to work together for Thanet."</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">So,</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"> it is a legitimate question the electorate can ask: -</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"><b>"Does Craig Mackinlay the MP for South Thanet have an ulterior motive in promoting RSP (Antony Freudmann)?"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">This week (7th September 2022) the South Thanet MP has been promoting a petition as follows; -</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>"We note the previous spending of £10,000 of local Council taxpayer precept by Ramsgate
Town Council to attach themselves to a prior judicial review action to prevent aviation
activities at the Manston site.</b>
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport has granted the Manston site
development consent (a DCO) so that a new cargo hub and associated businesses can be
advanced. The project is promoted by RiverOak Strategic Partners Limited and has long
enjoyed the support of both Thanet MPs.
Thanet perpetually has unemployment rates and average salaries behind South-East norms. A
re-opened airport is expected to bring huge investment of hundreds of millions of pounds.
This means new opportunities and a huge number of new jobs.
The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges Ramsgate Town Council
to accept the decision of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, work
constructively with the Government, RSP, Thanet’s MPs and other local authorities and
elected representatives towards the re-opening of the airport, and to refrain from spending
more public money on further legal challenges"</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clearly the statement in bold is politically motivated as Craig is a Conservative MP and the Ramsgate Town Council is a majority Labour Town Council however the statement is factually incorrect as the truth is there was a motion in Council which was debated, and a vote taken to give the judicial Review by Jenny Dawes £10000 towards appealing the decision of the SoS of the Department of Transport to grant a <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Development Consent Order</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> (</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">DCO</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">) for the rebuilding of Manston for the following reason "</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">I see Mackinlay doesn't explain the reason why the government did not defend the case & conceded. It was because they knew they would lose because the SoS acted unlawfully ..................The Defendant accepts that his decision letter dated 9 July</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> </span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;" tabindex="-1"></a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">2020 (the “Decision Letter”) did not give adequate and intelligible reasons to enable the reader to understand why he disagreed with the Examining Authority Report on the issue of need for the development of Manston Airport.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The lack of adequate reasons in the Decision Letter rendered the Secretary of State’s decision dated 9 July 2020 to make the Manston Airport Development Consent Order 2020 (the “Manston DCO”) unlawful.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, it is perfectly legal for Local Councils to utilise their funds in protecting the electorate as an example several councils put their money together to appeal the decision on Heathrow's third runway. This use of funds comes under <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/137" target="_blank">Section 137 of theLocal Authorities Act 1972</a> applied and that the payments had been declared in
the annual return and signed off without question by the relevant authority.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3Q4efs2Xx7gPvhH3Pym-qMY_jeVUEgXvoA59gXedHH6VDl_ZsKW9c_sp0z9U4KVVKkUToIQ0M5orcZX25PNsS17w_Fz7RN4qefVoFYG4I1vLjwkTrRsci2lxaSHNIkDf-CVeNY0t9N309Y4BrFRIDjx-woEUmI95oqAbSO12j77Y3Vc4lOavX1TJ/s960/Macca%20SMAa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3Q4efs2Xx7gPvhH3Pym-qMY_jeVUEgXvoA59gXedHH6VDl_ZsKW9c_sp0z9U4KVVKkUToIQ0M5orcZX25PNsS17w_Fz7RN4qefVoFYG4I1vLjwkTrRsci2lxaSHNIkDf-CVeNY0t9N309Y4BrFRIDjx-woEUmI95oqAbSO12j77Y3Vc4lOavX1TJ/w640-h426/Macca%20SMAa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-88903763030517608682022-08-21T06:18:00.013-07:002022-08-21T06:25:15.216-07:00DCO Requirements<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAxDzHxSwB3ptn_ijhgcQ9_5mudnI_k1_KKlYiOOBqFT9NtpZJDTh9Emh-yie2ZVZTglWr-3a96RZsR5RsuI3Og-itfZHaDMI2u4K_m6E7khTMa7e04ukypY2NSMGdSYg_L-9FDOlz9dYPlia4GggEmKsZE0wZKoIGqCSfby4qejhvDjLzOXUs-EuW/s630/overhead.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="630" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAxDzHxSwB3ptn_ijhgcQ9_5mudnI_k1_KKlYiOOBqFT9NtpZJDTh9Emh-yie2ZVZTglWr-3a96RZsR5RsuI3Og-itfZHaDMI2u4K_m6E7khTMa7e04ukypY2NSMGdSYg_L-9FDOlz9dYPlia4GggEmKsZE0wZKoIGqCSfby4qejhvDjLzOXUs-EuW/w400-h266/overhead.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What follows is an extract from the following DCO granted
(for the second time, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the 1<sup>st</sup>
being quashed in February 2022 by the High Court as deemed no NEED for the
development</b>) on the 18<sup>th</sup> of August 2022.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite the 1<sup>st</sup> order being quashed and the
Independent Aviation Experts opinion that there is no NEED it seems the Tory
Government has been determined to ramrod this planning permission through.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notwithstanding that objectors to the development still have
6 weeks to appeal it seems the Transport Secretary has failed to deal with the
question of NEED as he did when he granted the DCO the 1<sup>st</sup> time
around<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>The<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Manston Airport Development Consent Order 2022<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Made - - - - 18th August 2022<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Coming into force - - 8th September 2022<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Time limits<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The authorised development must commence no later than the
expiration of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">five years</b> beginning
with the date that this Order comes into force <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Development
masterplans<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to be commenced</b> until there has been submitted to
and approved by the relevant planning authority in consultation with Kent
County Council and Historic England—<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(a) Where the authorised development is to be constructed in
a single part, a masterplan in respect of the entire authorised development; or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(b) Where the authorised development is to be constructed in
two or more parts, a masterplan for the relevant part of the authorised
development.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before a masterplan is submitted under sub-paragraph (1) the
undertaker must—<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(a) Commission further assessment of the historic character
of the airfield, historic buildings survey, and archaeological investigation,
and assess the heritage significance of heritage assets and their settings;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(b) Consider that the conservation of heritage assets of
national importance and their settings should be given great weight, and
conflict between their conservation and the proposal avoided or minimise and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(c) Consult the relevant planning authority, Kent County
Council and Historic England before submitting the masterplan for approval and
report on the consultees’ recommendations in the submission.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to commence</b> until details of the siting, design,
external appearance, lighting, site access (including emergency access) and
dimensions of any element of Work Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
or 20 contained in that part, which must accord with sub-paragraphs (2) and
(3), have been submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority in
consultation with Kent County Council where relevant to its functions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Construction
environmental management plan<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to commence</b> until a construction environmental
management plan for that part, which must be substantially in accordance with
the outline construction environmental management plan, has been submitted to,
and approved in writing by, the relevant planning authority, following
consultation with the relevant highway authority, the Environment Agency,
Southern Water, Historic England, the Civil Aviation Authority and Natural
England to the extent that it relates to matters relevant to their function.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Operation
environmental management plan<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to begin</b> operation until an operation
environmental management plan for that part has been submitted to, and approved
in writing by, the relevant planning authority, following consultation with the
relevant highway authority, the Environment Agency, Southern Water, Historic
England, the Civil Aviation Authority and Natural England to the extent that it
relates to matters relevant to their function<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Ecological
mitigation<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development may be commenced</b> until written details of the proposed
on-site and off-site ecological mitigation for that part, the timetable for its
implementation, its monitoring and management have been submitted to and
approved by the local planning authority, in consultation with Natural England<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Noise mitigation<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9.—(1) the undertaker must <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fully implement</b> the noise mitigation plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(2) The authorised development must be operated in
accordance with the noise mitigation plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(3) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to commence</b> until the measures set out in sections
2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 of the noise mitigation plan have been implemented.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Landscaping<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b>, nor may powers under article 34
(felling or lopping of trees and removal of hedgerows) be exercised, until a
landscaping scheme for that part, which sets out details of all proposed hard
and soft landscaping works, has been submitted to and approved in writing by
the local planning authority<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Relevant planning
authority” means in any given provision of this Order, the planning authority
for the area to which the provision relates; In this case Thanet District
Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Protected species<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until for that part final
pre-construction survey work has been carried out to establish whether European
or nationally protected species are present on any of the land affected or
likely to be affected by any part of the relevant works, or in any of the trees
and shrubs to be lopped or felled as part of the relevant works.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Surface and foul
water drainage<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until for that part written
details of the surface and foul water drainage plan, containing all relevant
mitigation measures set out in the register of environmental actions and
commitments including means of pollution control and monitoring and drainage
operation, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant
planning authority following consultation with the Environment Agency, Kent
County Council, Natural England and Southern Water on matters related to their
function<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Traffic management<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until a construction traffic
management plan for that part has been submitted to and approved in writing by
the relevant planning authority, following consultation with the Royal Mail<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant highway authority” means, in any given provision
of this Order, the highway authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Kent County Council Highways<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Piling and other
intrusive works<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No operations
consisting of piling or other intrusive works (including drilling) are to
commence </b>until a risk assessment and a method statement have been submitted
to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority following
consultation with the Environment Agency and Southern Water.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision
of this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision
relates; in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Archaeological
remains<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">16.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until for that part a written
scheme for the investigation of areas of archaeological interest, containing
all relevant mitigation measures set out in the register of environmental
actions and commitments, has been submitted to and approved in writing by the
relevant planning authority, following consultation with Historic England and
Kent County Council on matters related to their function<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Relevant planning authority” means in any given provision of
this Order, the planning authority for the area to which the provision relates;
in this case Thanet District Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b><u>Community
consultative committee</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Consultative committee guidance” means the Guidelines for
Airport Consultative Committees published by the Department for Transport in
April 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">18.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until the undertaker has
established a community consultative committee pursuant to section 35(a)
(facilities for consultation at certain aerodromes) of the 1982 Act.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Education, employment
and skills plan<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">20.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development is to commence</b> until an employment and skills
plan has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the relevant planning
authority, following consultation with the relevant local education authority
to the extent that it relates to matters relevant to their function<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this case Kent County Council Education Authority<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Monitoring<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">23. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is to begin operation</b> until a monitoring, auditing
and reporting plan for the register of environmental actions and commitments
has been submitted to, and approved in writing by, the relevant planning
authority, following consultation with the highway authority, the Environment
Agency, Historic England, the Civil Aviation Authority and Natural England to
the extent that it relates to matters relevant to their function.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>High Resolution
Direction Finder<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">24.—(1) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of
the authorised development must commence</b> unless and until a detailed
mitigation scheme to provide an alternate High Resolution Direction Finder,
prepared by the undertaker and agreed in writing by the Ministry of Defence,
has been submitted to the relevant planning authority. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The detailed mitigation scheme must include siting location(s) for the
alternate High Resolution Direction Finder, full specification for the
equipment and infrastructure proposed, details of a programme, to test the new
equipment as installed against the Ministry of Defence requirements for
acceptance into service and the technical performance data necessary to
establish safeguarding criteria to protect its subsequent operation</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(2) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development is permitted to be constructed within the zone protected
by the Ministry of Defence (Manston) Technical Site Direction 2017 while the
safeguarding direction is in force without the consent of the Secretary of
State for Defence.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(3) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No part of the
authorised development must commence</b> unless and until a programme for the
decommissioning and removal of the existing High Resolution Direction Finder,
prepared by the undertaker and submitted to and agreed in writing by the
Ministry of Defence, has been submitted to the relevant planning authority. The
decommissioning and removal of the existing High Resolution Direction Finder
equipment must be carried out strictly in accordance with the details approved.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Editor’s Note<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite an examination, which started in January 2019, and
more than 3 years of evidence submitted by the MoD no resolution to the HRDF
situation can be agreed by RSP and the MoD. Much of the situation has been
exacerbated simply because RSP have failed to fully understand the MoD’s
position. Clearly the Transport Secretary does as he points out in his letter.
Whether RSP take it seriously enough we will have to wait and see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">169. The Secretary of
State notes the discussion during the examination regarding the High Resolution
Direction Finder <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(“HRDF”- a navigational
aid to aircraft operating in the area and critical to maintaining the UK
emergency response capabilities for the management of air safety incidents</b>)
and that the Applicant and MoD remained <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">some
way apart</b> from agreement at the end of the examination [ER 6.9.129]. The
Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) objected to the Development as it considered that
it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">would have a significant and
detrimental impact on the capability of safeguarded technical equipment located
within the boundaries of the Development</b> [ER 6.9.130]. The Secretary of
State notes that in its response dated 31 January 2020 to his consultation
letter of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">17 January 2020 the MoD
maintained its objection to the relocation of the HRDF and confirmed no
resolution on this matter appeared imminent.</b> In response to the
redetermination process, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the MoD confirm
in its letter dated 9 July 2021 that it maintained its objection to the
Development and that the matter or relocation of the HRDF remained outstanding.<o:p></o:p></b></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">170. The Secretary of
State has given careful consideration to this issue. He notes the proposals
from the MOD in their letter dated 31 January 2020 and agrees to MOD’s proposed
amendment to requirement 24(1) but disagrees with the amendments proposed for
24(3). Notwithstanding this requirement, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the
Secretary of State also accepts that there is still no guarantee that the HRDF
can be moved at this time</b>, but would encourage the Applicant and the MOD to
continue to engage in constructive dialogue to seek a workable solution to
resolve this issue. The Secretary of State’s consideration of the compulsory
acquisition of the HRDF land is set out below.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Secretary of State
also considers requirement 24 in the DCO should also ensure that the operation
of the existing HRDF cannot be interfered with by the construction of the
authorised development until such time as an alternative solution is agreed by
the MOD and the existing safeguarding direction is withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> This is the conclusions of OVE ARUP the independent Aviation Experts paid for (£150K) out of taxpayers money. Money wasted as their conclusions were ignored</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iQt3c9MBU2KLWFiNdktm-qsPB_ooEnF9h0H_d0-MGFo0aT1byqOhuPoCY_JFDsaEMj6qYVDHlMvSNg5i-TP4HDYP35Ij2WexOiXOqu-QL5xbrwK4zKfhy61lVFdECsDARkQsi5yBiIQzqlT1MOj_-hKInXbGmeb6QCxFYY6mqba2vuHO-W8dqOgd/s906/Screenshot%202022-08-18%2017.15.04.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iQt3c9MBU2KLWFiNdktm-qsPB_ooEnF9h0H_d0-MGFo0aT1byqOhuPoCY_JFDsaEMj6qYVDHlMvSNg5i-TP4HDYP35Ij2WexOiXOqu-QL5xbrwK4zKfhy61lVFdECsDARkQsi5yBiIQzqlT1MOj_-hKInXbGmeb6QCxFYY6mqba2vuHO-W8dqOgd/w424-h640/Screenshot%202022-08-18%2017.15.04.png" width="424" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-92157888180920761842021-12-09T09:02:00.020-08:002021-12-09T10:00:36.015-08:00RSP and the Redetermination process<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmgLS0aJEoOVVMd2E6FQmtaOEMdvhWZhGcnt9JdprN5nGBvhTUpNURDaaEcYqTdnqpvpqdqIPhQ1IUBWZbqTJLvV0kTa7DnnR17bBAv94HDe4oX0eUq2qbePvWHGjY-ULbWLY72h2SdjVPG6FCkFyLk4l1isw7Qo_71blF7rIHQvZD--wRZtCiDS47=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmgLS0aJEoOVVMd2E6FQmtaOEMdvhWZhGcnt9JdprN5nGBvhTUpNURDaaEcYqTdnqpvpqdqIPhQ1IUBWZbqTJLvV0kTa7DnnR17bBAv94HDe4oX0eUq2qbePvWHGjY-ULbWLY72h2SdjVPG6FCkFyLk4l1isw7Qo_71blF7rIHQvZD--wRZtCiDS47=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The full extent of RAF Manston before Freudmann sold 300 acres in 2001/2</p><p>On the 9th December 2021 Riveroak Strategic Partners posted on their website an attack on, not just the Secretary of State (SoS) for Transport, but the entire redetermination process which I have set out here.</p><p>I have added various editors remarks in BOLD as this response seems somewhat biased which seems to be Freudmann's Rottweiler attack dog methods. I believe it is aimed at the supporters rather than any serious attempt to negotiate with the SoS </p><p>"<span face=""Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">I</span><span face=""Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">n a covering letter to its response to the Arup Assessor’s report, as part of the redetermination process for the Manston Airport DCO, RiverOak Strategic Partners has set out concerns over not only the content of the Arup Report, but also the “untimetabled and protracted” process of redetermination that the Secretary of State for Transport has presided over – signalling that, had RSP known earlier how poorly the process would be run, it would not have consented to the Secretary of State’s decision to concede</span><span face=""Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">. (Editor's comment, It is past time for RSP to pay up what the judge awarded)</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In the letter, submitted on behalf of RSP by its lawyers BDB Pitmans, RSP also expresses its concern that, having withheld the basis on which Arup was commissioned, <b>(Editor's comment, No one was told what the brief was so RSP wasn't disadvantaged however the letter set out the following which is as much as anyone had and to which RSP actually responded</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1RWJIBaKVBRQMEInbg0h3mdSb9-MfUuttABJWBFMH6AB58AIi1tW-XEvNTzVIt8ev9ekWIBFX1VOyN59x8FM0kiM-tJBjRh7vFvvkF87Mhavthag_8znzVp0ThRzMsi2pt-TWi8sVtLwYMXcvv62gMi0ZaBDkrwNQjTrJy8xgqLk-8E-MbIRsbL3t=s956" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="956" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1RWJIBaKVBRQMEInbg0h3mdSb9-MfUuttABJWBFMH6AB58AIi1tW-XEvNTzVIt8ev9ekWIBFX1VOyN59x8FM0kiM-tJBjRh7vFvvkF87Mhavthag_8znzVp0ThRzMsi2pt-TWi8sVtLwYMXcvv62gMi0ZaBDkrwNQjTrJy8xgqLk-8E-MbIRsbL3t=w400-h285" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">"the Government only revealed the terms of reference under which Arup worked when forced to do so – following a Member of Parliament making a Freedom of Information request. (<b>Editor's note, which was never shared with anyone else)</b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In the main body of the response, RSP sets out its concerns that, instead of addressing the issue of ‘need,’ Arup produced a narrowly focused demand study, which only considers changes to demand in relation to Covid-19, Brexit and other factors. The unknown authors of the report have focused on issues entirely unconnected to the Judicial Review and redetermination – such as e-commerce, changes to aircraft design, impacts on GDP and national resilience – and have also attempted to consider the issue of ‘viability’ which, in addition to not being an appropriate consideration in this redetermination would have required interrogating RSP’s business model (<b>editors note, which would have been difficult as RSP have never published it)</b> to do so effectively, which was not done.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The RSP submission argues – and provides evidence to substantiate these arguments – that the Arup report should be given little weight due to a number of other concerning factors too, including:</p><ul style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 23px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· The report’s authors and their qualifications not being identified</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· the inclusion of unsupported assertions and disproven data</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· the report prejudicially dismissing the Applicant’s expert evidence</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· where they agree with RSP, the authors gives the relevant issue little weight</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· the authors unquestioningly accepting opponents’ unevidenced submissions</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">· the authors bemoaning a lack of forecasts but then concluding against RSP</li><li><span face="Roboto Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><b>Editors note, strange that RSP have never published their experts credentials nor who is advising them bar Dr Sally Dixon's initial report which of course she admitted never looked at the viability of her forecasts</b></span></li><li><span face="Roboto Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><b>Inclusion of unsupported assertions is a staple of RSP's reports</b></span></li><li><span face="Roboto Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><b>OVE Arup couldn't had prejudicially dismissed the Applicants expert evidence as Ove had no idea who had provided this evidence</b></span></li><li><span face="Roboto Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><b>All the Aviation expertise provided by their opponents has been evidenced especially ASA and York Aviation. All my submissions have been evidenced in full</b></span></li><li><span face="Roboto Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><b>This is a travesty of a response as the only forecasting has been done by RSP and where a forecast has been provided by the opposition it has been based on extrapolated past factual evidence. RSP have relied almost totally on top down forecasts especially average loads per Cargo ATM which were artificially lowered to ensure 10000 CATMs were achieved </b></span></li></ul><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">"Tony Freudmann, Director of RSP, said: “Something about this report and this redetermination process simply isn’t right. Our growing concern is that someone, somewhere is throwing up delays and obstacles while they scratch around for evidence as to why this fully-funded <b>(Editors note, Never have RSP stated who is providing their funds) </b>evidence-based economic regeneration project should not proceed.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“We consented to the Secretary of State’s decision to concede on the basis that the redetermination process would be efficient and focused on the factors set out in the Secretary of State’s letter. However, the process has taken far too long, has gone far beyond the terms set out in statute and has not been directed to the conceded issue. Had we known this would happen, we would not have consented to Secretary of State’s decision to concede.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“The re-opening of Manston Airport relies on no public funding <b style="background-color: transparent;">(Editors note, Never have RSP stated who is providing their funds) </b>and will represent considerable private, inward investment in existing UK infrastructure, consistent with the vision of an independent Global Britain. We’ve already invested more than £40 million in this project and the entire risk relating to its success is borne by RSP and our investors <b style="background-color: transparent;">(Editors note, Never have RSP stated who is providing their funds) </b>.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Despite all of this, we are still here and we remain confident that the reopening of Manston will succeed and will be of measurable benefit to the nation – and, importantly, to the deprived East Kent region.” <b style="background-color: transparent;">(Editors note, the issue is one of NEED) </b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">In the letter, BDB Pitmans also points out the real world implications of the Government’s protracted handling of the process, stating:</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“This delay is not taking place in a vacuum, it has real world effects and is prejudicial to the Applicant and the UK economy. It is deterring and confusing investors, particularly from overseas, who had embarked upon their proposal to invest in the UK because of the certainty of timings of the DCO regime but can no longer rely upon it. In general, further, delays mean that responses have to be updated to take into account changes in policy in this field. With every passing day evidence and commentary are published, especially within the trade press for the aviation industry, which further strengthens the Applicant’s position. In addition, even the Department for Transport can be seen to be promoting the UK aviation industry in the trade press.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Given the current economic uncertainty, the government is surely keener than ever for inward investment into the UK, but through its own actions is making this less likely to happen. The delay also causes an unnecessary harmful local impact <b style="background-color: transparent;">(Editors note, Forgetting the decision has to be decided on a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project basis not just an East Kent basis which would likely damage the East Kent tourist industry, a point conceded by RSP in their original submission. There is no point in robbing Peter to pay Paul) </b>. Employment is more precarious than ever, and has been exacerbated by the end of the furlough scheme, and yet there is undue delay to this development which would bring thousands of high quality construction jobs and more permanent jobs.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Through no fault of the Applicant, almost two years have passed since the decision was initially due to be taken on 9 January 2020 <b style="background-color: transparent;">(Editors note, I would also remind RSP that the DfT paid them £8.5m as compensation for "delaying" their plans) </b>. The application is now in an indefinite decision stage with the prospect of many months more before the decision is retaken. The above points should be given serious consideration and responded to accordingly so as to maintain confidence in this regime, particularly among private inward investors into the UK such as RSP. The supposed certainty of timing of the Planning Act 2008 regime is one of its main strengths for investors and this should not be undermined.”</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">RSP is now calling on the Secretary of State for Transport to publish a timetable for the redetermination process, as this will at least provide some certainty that a decision will be made shortly. It is assumed that this will be welcomed by both supporters and opponents of the proposals as it will provide much needed certainty for a deprived part of England in desperate need of economic and employment opportunity one way or another.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>(Editors note, I would also remind RSP that the DfT paid them £8.5m as compensation for "delaying" their plans) </b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Further the following notes have been emailed to me</b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Why is
an MP submitting FoI’s on behalf of RSP? </b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p>RSP
has sought to interpret ‘need ‘ as ‘benefit’ </b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p>Submissions
were invited on ‘changes to need’. RSP and it’s supporters introduced
changes to aircraft design etc etc so no surprise they were picked up by Arup</b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p>Submissions
by RSP and it’s supporters are littered with ‘unsupported assertions and
disproven data’</b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p>‘Little
weight’ to what RSP says? I wonder why?</b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p>And
the paragraph beginning ‘Tony Freudmann …’ just makes me laugh!</b></li><li><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"> </o:p><b>The
redetermination programme process Would seem to be focused on the factors set
out in the Secretary of States letter rather than RSP’s interpretation of what
those letters should be</b></li><li><b><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As for deterring and confusing investors…</span></b></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-12754570381720796332021-12-07T09:01:00.004-08:002021-12-07T09:01:54.337-08:00NEED part 2<p> York Aviation have had a intimate relationship with Manston Airport since they wrote a report for Infratil, a previous owner, in August 2010. Their Brief was to determine if Manston could survive if Night Flights were refused.</p><p>Their conclusion back then was "It is likely therefore that the full catalytic benefits of MSE (Manston Airport) will only be achieved if a full programme of flying can be provided, which will require night time operations in line with the plan proposed by the Airport."</p><p>Move forward through time to the present day and Riveroak's application for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure project and yet again York have been asked to respond to the Ove Arup response for the Department of Transport.</p><p>Is Manston Needed and Government policy</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUJOK8d7-hI-m_PHb4fGN9VHy8iHWoPzGKyvEQTCYqSvcSizO5j8I4hjkMPmtvhuMQRbrEsSZBOIEUGvqVY8ZltcyxqBNoETP_50adsj3Tp0RVGJ3JXDdnkZz_dpAE_qwhBNIuRwuxEtrlpHcCi5-TYNSv7nE4cKpOVgOq3w_b6AVSqBm6MgAMcV2b=s823" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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be my 4<sup>th</sup> submission to the consultation and will concentrate on
NEED and need alone. Notwithstanding the pandemic Cargo air transport movements
(CATM) has hardly changed in nature for nigh on 20 years. It is a niche market
in the market that moves goods from point A to point B simply because of the
cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the
original examination report from 2019 (before the pandemic struck) the ExA
concluded:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Given all the above
evidence, the ExA concludes that the levels of freight that the Proposed
Development could expect to handle are modest and could be catered for at
existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted, EMA, and others if the demand existed).
The ExA considers that Manston appears to offer no obvious advantages to
outweigh the strong competition that such airports offer. The ExA therefore
concludes that the Applicant has failed to demonstrate sufficient need for the
Proposed Development, additional to (or different from) the need which is met
by the provision of existing airports.” </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(E.R 5.7.28)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Very little
has changed and what has changed is debated within the Ove Arup’s report which
concludes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Overall, the
Independent Assessor concludes that there have not been any significant or
material changes to policy or the quantitative need case for the Proposed
Development since July 2019 that would lead to different conclusions being
reached</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (compared with the previous ExA conclusions) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">with respect to the need for the Manston
development</b>. In particular:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The changes to policy, notably the
withdrawal and reinstatement of the ANPS and adoption of the Thanet Local Plan,
do not significantly change the policy context that was in place at the time of
the Examination;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The recent growth in e-commerce
sales is not driving a demand for additional runway capacity for dedicated air
freighters in the South East;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Although there have been short term
changes in the balance between bellyhold freight and dedicated freighter
activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, these changes are not expected to be
permanent, notwithstanding growth in ecommerce and changes to the UK’s trading
patterns post-Brexit;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is unlikely to be a
significant reduction in bellyhold freight capacity (once the passenger market
recovers) due to the introduction of narrow-bodied twin-engine aircraft;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite the uncertainty concerning
the timescale for the Heathrow Airport Third Runway, changes since July 2019 as
described do not lead the Independent Assessor to reach a different conclusion
on the need case for Manston Airport. East Midlands Airport has sufficient
capacity to handle additional dedicated freighter services should the market
demand them, while the planning determination at Stansted confirms that
significant freight capacity remains available; and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is no new evidence to suggest a different conclusion should be drawn
in respect of the locational performance of Manston compared to East Midlands
Airport, and to a lesser extent Stansted, to that of the ExA Report</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What the
applicant forgets (sic) is that there is a marked difference between worldwide
projections for CATM and those that are UK specific and conflating the two is
disingenuous and naïve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Using
forecasts is akin to crystal ball gazing and this seems to be the favourite
behaviour of the applicant. To ignore prior statistics in favour of cherry
picking forecasts that are not UK specific can lead to erroneous conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Take the
case of a recent report in the Telegraph:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rocketing shipping costs force businesses to
avoid container ships and head to the skies in efforts to avoid freight delays<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By Louis
Ashworth (Telegraph) 20 November 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The headline is misleading because although
worldwide shipping costs have “rocketed” in 2020 the volume of CATM in the UK
reduced by 21%,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> a
fact that was overlooked in the report that followed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There were
some gems included within the report however:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“However, it comes with a price tag. Estimates
by the World Bank suggest air freight is usually four to five times more
expensive than road transport, and up to 16 times more than sea. This has
typically meant only some products earn a plane ticket: certain fresh foods,
time-sensitive documents, pharmaceuticals and cut flowers, for example.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">““There's not a one-size-fits-all response to
the current climate,” says Niall van der Wouw, managing director of Clive, an
Amsterdam-based air freight data provider. It’s been a boom period for air
freight, but sky-high pricing and favourable comparisons with nautical
alternatives may not last forever.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I think there is quite a risk that this big
surge in demand that we've seen over the past year could just disappear as
quickly as it started,” says James Hookham from the Global Shippers’ Forum, a
trade association for cargo owners.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Industry insiders accept that what goes up must
come down, although fate may briefly be in the freight firms’ favour. As air
passenger levels begin to normalize, cargo space will shrivel.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What is
true is that airfreight is a small niche market which according to Ove Arup has
hardly changed in the last 10 years<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Combining these airfreight volumes with data
from DfT Port Statistics for unit load cargo passing via sea ports in the same
years (cargo in maritime containers, accompanied Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGVs) and
unaccompanied trailers) shows that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">air
freight’s market share has effectively remained unchanged over the period 2009
to 2019, at around 1.5%.</b> As illustrated by table 2 below. Overall, sea
freight is by far the dominant mode. These modes of shipping are effectively
air freight’s ‘competitor’ in the movement of finished consumer cargoes.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (Page 19 OVE Arup)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The essential
reason for this is cost airfreight being 16X more expensive that goods shipped
by sea. The Steer report clearly understood these facts in their 2018 report as
they graphed volume growth which clearly showed a flat line for Freighter only
carriage and only a slight rise in bellyhold cargo. Most of the bellyhold is
carried in and out of Heathrow which up to the end of 2019 carried 2/3rds of
all UK airfreight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During 2020
with the onset of Covid and the decimation of passenger flights airfreight
reduced by 1/5<sup>th</sup> and with most freight being carried on pure
freighters however it is clear from the events in 2021 and the reopening of
passenger flights in the UK and worldwide in July that CATM’s are reverting
back to their previous pre 2020 configurations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The 3 main
airports for freight in the UK are Heathrow, East Midlands and Stanstead and
the respective volumes are in the 2<sup>nd</sup> pie chart below<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPNcwijiQCTso2lUz5CPqZKWOU6_ewRz2DTWpnAHMjJx9TmVuK8SI2XXNc_VNzbkSuPLUXxujFiZONlsIbGD3mlGFVUU-n-alqpHx0SBFFrbpPRlhkk4tFvKM8Vhb4cwx2C-yTTVHXKdY28dDBkyr17SJYUEBUdVmXxHfGpDp-wdurgexOWj9Y1lx1=s818" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="818" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPNcwijiQCTso2lUz5CPqZKWOU6_ewRz2DTWpnAHMjJx9TmVuK8SI2XXNc_VNzbkSuPLUXxujFiZONlsIbGD3mlGFVUU-n-alqpHx0SBFFrbpPRlhkk4tFvKM8Vhb4cwx2C-yTTVHXKdY28dDBkyr17SJYUEBUdVmXxHfGpDp-wdurgexOWj9Y1lx1=w640-h608" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFHa4nklxf2bX-2z-fbW0oCcSt1g3q8dK8oyYsZP5lmD_V_DUnbgTHT1NNGkv03rQbaiNaS4y3IjhDmCNJRqExNu9H7_QITy6LF-5fmTxSgTXPgSaNpUFtDNrCp3NDGLzdD2bxBseT0dHbpG2yFec9C49ZO8eHkxt__WTL_eEoh7j7hBR35WS2on75=s1148" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="1148" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFHa4nklxf2bX-2z-fbW0oCcSt1g3q8dK8oyYsZP5lmD_V_DUnbgTHT1NNGkv03rQbaiNaS4y3IjhDmCNJRqExNu9H7_QITy6LF-5fmTxSgTXPgSaNpUFtDNrCp3NDGLzdD2bxBseT0dHbpG2yFec9C49ZO8eHkxt__WTL_eEoh7j7hBR35WS2on75=w640-h478" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So
looking at the post Covid figures from the 3 main cargo airports it is clear
that from July 2021 the market is reverting back to pre-covid volumes perhaps
quicker than even Ove Arup believed in their report</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvgpEo5_Ey428wpYiWDeajB-1iOgFKWN8VVli3rUfhM_b-7bX_S29M1zLUpijQSBlyuxwUhi5M8TGCwd7c1kbvi_qlYOPNLHt5ZsO-n88mbq_Eadwp_OrS1iRfs7IvarV3_bIlqpEwQ3zp6Gk0Aq9hqjnZNGmvkkGaEwHFDshNTqSmINsQmSnVIk-l=s1518" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="1518" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvgpEo5_Ey428wpYiWDeajB-1iOgFKWN8VVli3rUfhM_b-7bX_S29M1zLUpijQSBlyuxwUhi5M8TGCwd7c1kbvi_qlYOPNLHt5ZsO-n88mbq_Eadwp_OrS1iRfs7IvarV3_bIlqpEwQ3zp6Gk0Aq9hqjnZNGmvkkGaEwHFDshNTqSmINsQmSnVIk-l=w640-h162" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Although
Heathrow is still running 6% behind 2019 it is clear that bellyhold is now well
ahead of pure freighters with the clear winners being East Midlands and
Stanstead with growth of 27% and 22% respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7Qhr1JlThM0mDON17BY1zDQMjePsusc43ACAKvGcbVqFBl_BqED74fL5Gf6gatem5ebOel2mM7Jrm5LTuUyNB1N9ecgr77HwxXkh1XrmGjz8dFhYPckKlzXmW99sIfh-VFiCHu-vf2EnXsjJSgeh1a0n8KFRPu3ciPfj0K_QxoWQIhtMmMUOH0dso=s855" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="855" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7Qhr1JlThM0mDON17BY1zDQMjePsusc43ACAKvGcbVqFBl_BqED74fL5Gf6gatem5ebOel2mM7Jrm5LTuUyNB1N9ecgr77HwxXkh1XrmGjz8dFhYPckKlzXmW99sIfh-VFiCHu-vf2EnXsjJSgeh1a0n8KFRPu3ciPfj0K_QxoWQIhtMmMUOH0dso=w640-h381" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Clearly the
number of CATM’s has only markedly changed at Heathrow with pure freighters
rising with the fall in bellyhold however 2021 will show that change moving
back to a more normal configuration. It is also clear that the applicant hasn’t
understood the volume of airfreight has actually reduced by 21% in 2020 despite
the growth in E-Commerce. Their assumption is an increase in E-Commerce will lead
to an increase in airfreight. Ove Arup’s report states <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Contrary to the propositions above, York
Aviation on behalf of Jennifer Dawes seeks to cast doubt on the link between
e-commerce and air freight:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Increases in e-commerce activity, however, do
not necessarily lead to an increase in the volumes of air freight carried to or
from UK airports. Consumers have long purchased goods made in China for
example, which are transported to the UK by both air and surface modes. Even if
some goods that were previously bought in physical stores are now bought
online, these goods generally share the same journey from China to the UK, but
rather than being shipped directly to the retailer’s distribution centre for
onward travel to the physical store, they are being shipped to an online
retailer’s distribution centre for last-mile dispatch direct to consumers.
Therefore, whilst increased e-commerce activity has resulted in an increase in
demand for last-mile logistics between distribution centres and consumers, there
has so far been a negligible net impact in the volumes of air freight carried
to and from UK airports." (paragraph 4.36)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">And<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When
airfreight volumes are compared to the increase in e-commerce there does not
appear to be any correlation. Figure 1 below illustrates the percentage change
in internet retail sales (£ millions, all sectors) between 2009 and 2020,
alongside the percentage change in air freight volumes (total tonnes from all
reporting UK airports) over the same time period </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(page 19 Ove Arup report)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTAgRIv-OouggcSWDXgI0NLrx_PV1kYayDbzmvh_S_SIHp0MnzYYsT3CwLXFFoiEuE3WO0f-oYNYDXpEYRD1QPLSgWB8rFO1_7_hJnWI4KXTHNxRsfIy3waefekzrVDqs4c9BKOvvfhWVD2v90j8-vRmx_S5jJttEo8RU9_jsgnTSZbtYITEaww97b=s1018" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1018" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTAgRIv-OouggcSWDXgI0NLrx_PV1kYayDbzmvh_S_SIHp0MnzYYsT3CwLXFFoiEuE3WO0f-oYNYDXpEYRD1QPLSgWB8rFO1_7_hJnWI4KXTHNxRsfIy3waefekzrVDqs4c9BKOvvfhWVD2v90j8-vRmx_S5jJttEo8RU9_jsgnTSZbtYITEaww97b=w640-h414" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Also within
the applicants submission is the rather naïve belief that much of the
airfreight is lost to HGVs which take goods to and from airports abroad, this
was highlighted in the Steer report as follows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfhaDXAR4pbe3KZuOyBGogHqiX9BCpMfHIqU13eas6sviN8xeNIZ40lTV2sQT8OQ8ZLc374G6BZq08yFLEdP0nAieaiyNPjZ0oMsY_Q9tNqCluhKqLGCfYYvpyBWdbEGN8S9gW9Ptqd1lNUVjPfX0MiT50LvJNS9MALbrF0RWtS8RlFi7Ch4njdJvi=s1313" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="1313" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfhaDXAR4pbe3KZuOyBGogHqiX9BCpMfHIqU13eas6sviN8xeNIZ40lTV2sQT8OQ8ZLc374G6BZq08yFLEdP0nAieaiyNPjZ0oMsY_Q9tNqCluhKqLGCfYYvpyBWdbEGN8S9gW9Ptqd1lNUVjPfX0MiT50LvJNS9MALbrF0RWtS8RlFi7Ch4njdJvi=w640-h330" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In fact
during the period back to 2009-2014 Manston was trading as a Cargo airport yet
despite the assertion that London Centric airports were at capacity Manston
never grew as a cargo airport. You have to wonder where this naïve belief has
come from. In fact most of this trucked cargo could have gone to East Midlands
which would have been a quicker and more convenient airport but that never
happened either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">East
Midlands, Stanstead and Heathrow have combined achieved between 80-90% of all
aircargo during the last 10 or so years yet growth has been slow as the graph
below shows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghVeqrR9EQFc_4LIFlB9PB_I5IkfGESJlILu1OsEFfKVwSL-fHVnB6dlra2G_w8j_BjDgr9lYCt97YAGunfIh_XumhPYIWKiKnpai8ch3Uqs25JHbo7ZeoNM97Wv05sc4nDHp-0K3xOzf2BpT8MhmykpBkYDfTd1cpFTRWuR4iq27s7hU0k3JF2HKp=s961" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="961" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghVeqrR9EQFc_4LIFlB9PB_I5IkfGESJlILu1OsEFfKVwSL-fHVnB6dlra2G_w8j_BjDgr9lYCt97YAGunfIh_XumhPYIWKiKnpai8ch3Uqs25JHbo7ZeoNM97Wv05sc4nDHp-0K3xOzf2BpT8MhmykpBkYDfTd1cpFTRWuR4iq27s7hU0k3JF2HKp=w640-h242" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Between
2010 and 2019 growth was just 9% with belly hold growing by 17% and pure
freighters just 7% and that only with a very big increase in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Where the
applicant finds their figures from isn’t hard to find as they spurn actual
figures and would prefer people to view their crystal ball forecasts through
rose tinted spectacles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It is clear
from Ove Arup’s report they aren’t convinced the applicant knows what they are
talking about however the pro-airport supporters want aviation back at Manston.
Many of these supporters will not be affected by the low flying aircraft. They
are confused however between the words “Want” and “Need”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’d like to
quote from the esteemed Ramsgate Society which is made up of people that only
wish the best for Ramsgate and the wider East Kent area. They said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">“There is a world of
difference between “want” and “need”. Want is about desire and aspiration, Need
is something required, where a deficiency causes a clear adverse outcome. There
are those in Thanet and beyond, including politicians, whether consciously or
otherwise, are content to conflate the two. A “wish” is based on feeling and
emotion, “need” is tangible, measureable and evidence based. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">The key factor in this
(debate) is “Need” <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">If the DCO is approved
and the development goes ahead it will inevitably be a business failure because
fundamentally there is no market need, however much sections of the population
may wish for airport jobs and cheap convenient continental air travel that will
not trump stark commercial realities. The project is being touted on a false
prospectus”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There are plenty of White Elephant Airports in
Europe, China, and Africa that were built on “Want”.</span><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-26430449385543414612021-11-25T13:56:00.000-08:002021-11-25T13:56:02.482-08:00Riveroak and Academy FM<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Interview: Academy FM
Monday 22 November 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you for the
opportunity to explain where we are and what's going on with the airport. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0:03<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well Tony, it's a
pleasure to have you here. Now, Tony, can you tell us a little bit about
RiverOak and what the company actually does? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0:12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, RiverOak is what
we call in the, in the jargon, a SPV, a single purpose vehicle. In other words,
it's a company which was set up to acquire and develop Manston Airport. It's a
company with wealthy backers who've supported us so far. And as you know, we've
spent roughly 40 million pounds on the project so far, with more to come. So it
is a single purpose vehicle. It's a bit like the company that owns Heathrow,
you know, all airports are owned by single purpose vehicles. That's who we are.
And of course the investors are committed to the project. They don't invest
their money lightly these are large sums of money. And you know, you, you, you
carry out very robust and thorough forecasts before you could decide to commit
your money. So for anyone who thinks that this is a huge gamble, and people
don't know what they're doing well it's really not the case. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's Note: What isn't asked nor elucidated is the true nature of the several companies that were formed during 2017. Nor indeed where the beneficial ownership resides.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR_dH2OOfv74s6HYQEg5QAt_oHv2NFQhbBaFTAH8LzmuMDSn777QSRTrsgnS2oL3yz5OvEUclX044ypxiUgyw1y86vpszObrYDxM76Zw-upERcSSxbx3kBIfcunzK-50TLf-cyOyJjKmAe3xCkUWFq5Jo6hD-nLG2FcuPbmpPXb6rIIMde_TJKZdmB=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR_dH2OOfv74s6HYQEg5QAt_oHv2NFQhbBaFTAH8LzmuMDSn777QSRTrsgnS2oL3yz5OvEUclX044ypxiUgyw1y86vpszObrYDxM76Zw-upERcSSxbx3kBIfcunzK-50TLf-cyOyJjKmAe3xCkUWFq5Jo6hD-nLG2FcuPbmpPXb6rIIMde_TJKZdmB=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>In the middle of this spider web is Riveroak Strategic Partners Ltd where in 2019 80% of the shares were owned by HLX Nominees registered in the Tax Haven of the British Virgin Islands</b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh9yWZi1agKyMWfi0bHRUJu0KzdHH6ZhZzEc5SJkffuZX6wX2ENOfuZguKakf63xk-C6xr49WBVOjEGoeFN7ovM18WdpQBS79znjEBeu9zDcCHTkv_50xyzOMGh7xdUfn4latUDWmvvcc_nWr0XcEj8Y_lN5eCJwWM-Ur2fcwaBhWW0f3KExoUnVYN=s1451" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1451" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh9yWZi1agKyMWfi0bHRUJu0KzdHH6ZhZzEc5SJkffuZX6wX2ENOfuZguKakf63xk-C6xr49WBVOjEGoeFN7ovM18WdpQBS79znjEBeu9zDcCHTkv_50xyzOMGh7xdUfn4latUDWmvvcc_nWr0XcEj8Y_lN5eCJwWM-Ur2fcwaBhWW0f3KExoUnVYN=w400-h155" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1:14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And in 2018, RiverOak
submitted a Development Consent Order, a DCO, to reopen and develop the airport
into a freight facility. Why did you choose Manston airport? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1:27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, the truth is
there isn't anywhere else. We and our investors wanted an airport which would
be a major freight airport with some passenger traffic. For that you need a
runway, a long runway of nearly 3000 metres. There isn't another one anywhere
in the South East of England and we identified that there was a shortage of
capacity in the south east of England. So Manston was perfect. And the final
point is, there is a planning policy which is still a planning policy which is
called MBU, Make Best Use and what that means is rather than digging up greenfield
sites and putting down new runways, if there's a runway there, you should use
it. And that's why we chose Manston. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's note: Both Lakenheath and Mildenhall are better geographically. Both are surplus to requirements for the RAF and USAF yet Tony wants to create a Cargo Hub in East Kent 50 miles from the M25. BTW Manston is 9029 feet / 2752 metres. To some that may seem petty but not if you are trying to take off with a fully laden cargo plane.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right. And you
submitted as I said, the Development Consent Order. What then happened? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, we were accepted
as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project as it's called you. You have
to be accepted is that before you can go forward to examination. There was six
months of examination, public examination for the first six months of 2019. And
the DCO process is strictly timetabled, the inspectors then completed their
examination in July 2019. They submitted the report within three months. That's
how it goes, to the Secretary of State October 2019. And the Secretary of State
is supposed to deliver his decision within three months so it should have been
January 2020. Well, he didn't do it. We didn't get the decision until July
2020. And there was then a judicial review against the decision. And the
Secretary of State conceded that he hadn't explained the reasons for his
decision. in enough detail. So it was it was taken back for the reasons to be
rewritten. And that's where we stand currently. So we are actually two years
behind schedule now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Editor's note: "</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Well, we were accepted as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project as it's called you. You have to be accepted is that before you can go forward to examination."</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Now to most people that may sound logical however what you may not realise is that to be accepted for examination RO had to convince the planning inspectorate that Manston was capable of achieving 10000 Cargo air transport movements (CATMs) in a 12 month period. Dr. Sally Dixon managed that by the simple </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">expedient</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of reducing the cargo in each movement to 20 tonnes. When Manston was operative each load arriving averaged 95tonnes and each aircraft left empty.</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Editor's note 2: Tony forgot to mention that after 6 months of examining his plan the planning inspectorate declared there was no NEED for Manston. I wonder why?</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>EXA: </b></span></span><b>Given all the above
evidence, the ExA concludes that the levels of freight that the Proposed
Development could expect to handle are modest and could be catered for at
existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted, EMA, and others if the demand existed).
The ExA considers that Manston appears to offer no obvious advantages to
outweigh the strong competition that such airports offer. The ExA therefore concludes
that the Applicant has failed to demonstrate sufficient need for the Proposed
Development, additional to (or different from) the need which is met by the
provision of existing airports</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right. And as Manston
Airport, as I said, has been in existence since 1916. Obviously you know, you
have to apply for planning permission, new various licences etcetera, but I was
surprised that has actually taken so long. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:44<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We're very surprised.
I mean, we're not the only ones who are having the same problems. You know,
people will be following the London Resort project which used to be the
Paramount Studios project, that's got bogged down in bureaucracy and red tape,
the Lower Thames crossing the same thing. It's a problem with major
infrastructure projects in this country. We are impatient with the DfT. We
think it's taken far too long. And the irony is, we've got investors who want
to invest, who want to create jobs, who want to create a successful airport and
we're on hold while we await the decision. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes. And last year, we
saw because of a lockdown that the post Brexit lorry Park was introduced. Was
this the government coming to RiverOak saying, we want to use your land for a
lorry park or did you have any saying in it? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4:36<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, we could have
refused I suppose. But what happened was that when we purchased the airport,
the Department for Transport already had a short-term lease on the airport. So
they came to us when we bought it and said, will you extend our time until July
of 2019 because we think we may need it because of problems post-Brexit. And we
agreed to that we thought, well, if we don't agree to it, and there are
problems and of course, many of your listeners will remember the problems that
occurred last Christmas and beyond, if we hadn't agreed to it, there would
probably been gridlock on Kent roads everywhere. At one point there were 4000
lorries parked on the airport, you know, unbelievable. So that was why we agreed
to it, but they left in July and since then, we've had no further requests from
the DfT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's note: a nice piece of "sleight of hand", the truth is the Department of Transport had a contractual obligation with the previous owners of Manston, Stone Hill Park, and not only that when the DfT took over the runway they paid Stone Hill Park for the privilege. Must of been really annoying. Also not mentioned is RSP being paid £8.5M for holding up their plans. You know the ones that were quashed in February 2021 when the JR succeeded. Nice money for doing naff all.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6LF4Nls9kPZD9Dx4qCQ2WdPiuwmxAV2jWBg1zll8WvLi2YKNSzp_qkIZ5n3BIGtz-dP2m3_SKC_2W90z8RHM6fUkaydq_IOtvMQ8UYAMvLoBRzMhkQzNCtFANDHEMZRVAIeF90ho68t0ebLAo_nAAZ13GcYhyFMuyt5a91ndfFC_3mttSXjMWFMcA=s1409" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1409" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6LF4Nls9kPZD9Dx4qCQ2WdPiuwmxAV2jWBg1zll8WvLi2YKNSzp_qkIZ5n3BIGtz-dP2m3_SKC_2W90z8RHM6fUkaydq_IOtvMQ8UYAMvLoBRzMhkQzNCtFANDHEMZRVAIeF90ho68t0ebLAo_nAAZ13GcYhyFMuyt5a91ndfFC_3mttSXjMWFMcA=w400-h159" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:34<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there are rumours
certainly flying around Thanet at the moment that the government may be
considering Manston Airport to house perhaps immigrants or maybe having an
immigration centre. Is there any truth in the rumour as well? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, like everyone
else, we hear things and we're aware of how urgent the situation has become.
Here you have, Manston a 800 acre site which is secure, it's fenced and so on.
I would not be surprised if it wasn't one of the places that people would be looking
at you know, because they seem to be looking at everywhere and somewhere that's
so close to the Channel, it would be a logical place. That would be a tragedy
and as long as the airport remains unused, the temptation for government to
look at the airport will be there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes. But that was
not that would be a long-term project wouldn't it? It wouldn't be something
like the lorry park? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, exactly. You
know, I mean, the problem with the migrant thing is who knows, you know, you
look at migrant camps in other parts of the world, some of them have been there
for 20 years. So absolutely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:39<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes. And an
independent assessor appointed by the Secretary of State, Grant Shapps last
month concluded that the case for a freight hub was not proven. Was this a
surprise to you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6:52<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was it was a total
surprise at a number of levels. I need to take a little bit of time to explain
this. First of all, we thought that the assessor appointed by the Secretary of
State was going to be there to explain the reasons for the Secretary of State's
decision, his consent in July of, in July 2020, but he didn't. And what they
did was they carried out a demand study. Now we say that is wrong in law.
Because this doesn't require a demand study. I know this gets a bit
complicated, but there was a point at which we were asking the Secretary of
State for a compulsory purchase order of the Manston. If you're asking for
compulsory purchase the test is a higher test, the need test. We don't need a
compulsory purchase order we own the airport, we bought it we paid for it. So
the need test, as it's called, is actually the balance of public interest. In
other words, what is the what are the pluses on what are the minuses? So to
carry out a demand study, we disagree with the conclusions anyway, it just
makes no sense. I mean, for you, those of your listeners who are familiar with
the London Resort, no one's done a demand study on the London Resort. The, the promoters
of that project either own the land or have the options over it so it's just a
public interest test, which is what we say we satisfy and but by the way, we
also say that the Arup report is fundamentally flawed, they fail to understand
the changes that have taken place in the market because of Brexit and because
of COVID in the changes with e-commerce and Amazon and all the rest of it. So
you know, we say it is a really badly flawed report and reflects very bad on
the Arup organisation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Editors Note: what the assessor said was quite </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">succinct, they certainly weren't their to provide excuses for the rather controversial decision by Stephenson to overturn the ExA's decision to turn down the DCO.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoH5brtDVknMCeZ79uX5fpdGyx_SyZxpNZBx8IOv9FiESzLt1br-Y2GxregfyizsLwfovycZst-7Or5i_hzVgb-QrbuKivDGew1IIcWolAG1EcEtVEqtlNIZjLBCHa71oBUeB-tDwQV6YVFHfZ_QQoVRASiaaw2oo8EEVo-niUQ-FqYkPxe1msVxwc=s805" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="543" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoH5brtDVknMCeZ79uX5fpdGyx_SyZxpNZBx8IOv9FiESzLt1br-Y2GxregfyizsLwfovycZst-7Or5i_hzVgb-QrbuKivDGew1IIcWolAG1EcEtVEqtlNIZjLBCHa71oBUeB-tDwQV6YVFHfZ_QQoVRASiaaw2oo8EEVo-niUQ-FqYkPxe1msVxwc=w270-h400" width="270" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8:53<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes. And the
Secretary of State asked a RiverOak and Interested Parties for their comments
by the 19th of November, has RiverOak produced and submitted evidence to prove
that there is a need for a freight service at Manston Airport? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:08<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, the 19th of
November date was subsequently extended to the third of December because the
original Arup report which they released, had mistakes in it. There was a
chapter missing. There were footnotes that were redacted. They had to correct
the mistakes which meant that they had to start the consultation clock all over
again. So it's now 'til the third of December. We will be putting in a major
response to it on the third of December, maybe a few days before, and we'll be
publishing it so that everyone can see what we've said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:45<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right. And when are
you then likely to get a response from the Secretary of State?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:50<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We don't know. We will
be pressing very hard for a timetable. The whole point about Development
Consent Orders is that they're meant to be strictly timetabled, and the
original parts of it were six months for the examination, three months for the
report, three months of the decision. We have no timetable at the moment. So
we'll be pressing very hard, very hard for a timetable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We're gonna play a
piece of music and we'll be coming back with to find out more about Manston
airport and the plans for Manston Airport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, they're
ambitious plans, we've set them out in a, in a detailed master plan. It's
basically to create a very, very large cargo hangar slash warehouse with
supporting buildings, both airside and on the Northern Grass, as local people
will know it, and to build 19 or 20 parking stands in other words, places where
cargo planes can park. And this, by the way, is the answer to those people who
say, well, it never worked in the past so why will it work now? The problem
with Manston in the past was it only ever had two parking stands. And you've
heard me say this before, it's like having a beautiful hotel and complaining
that there are no guests because you've only got three bedrooms. And that was
the problem. So you have to spend money on that and we're projecting three or
400 million pounds for that level of development. The other good thing about
Manston is that it will be carbon neutral, because unlike other airports that
have legacy issues like diesel powered vehicles and inefficient buildings, we
will be able to have all electric, all hydrogen, all the buildings with solar
panels and meeting the highest environmental standards, which will be a major
plus for us. So building brand new with brand new equipment, brand new
everything, big advantage. It's easy to use that awful phrase, it means you're
future proofing the airport from day one. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's note: Manston never made a profit simply because geographically it is in the wrong place. Talk to people who worked there and they will tell you it took 2-3 days to unload the aircraft but as they only had an average of 2 aircraft a week that was never a problem. You have to remember Tony Freudmann ran the airport from 1999-2005. So he never noticed it had 2 stands, that is extremely remiss of him</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11:56<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes. And the land
surrounding the airport, will that be used for commercial or residential
development?. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:03<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, our land will only
be used for aviation related so it will be for, primarily for offices, hangars,
workshops to support aviation services, catering for aviation, that kind of
thing. And I know you mentioned to me off air, we will also for the record, bring
back TG Aviation, the flying school. Yes, they've been away and they want to
come back and that will be one of the first things we do <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:34<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And at the moment
we're seeing that Thanet Parkway Station is being constructed. Is that going to
have a direct link to the airport? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:45<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, it's not, it's not
going to have a physical link to the airport. You know we, we wish the project
well but to be perfectly honest with you the county council didn't liaise with
us at all over the design and construction of Parkway Station. So we don't know
what it will do for us. As far as we're concerned, we'll be looking at Ramsgate
Station for people coming to Manston by rail and we'll be running an electrical
hydrogen powered bus, a shuttle bus, to and from the station. And Ramsgate
Station has facilities for travellers to the Parkway Station won't have. The
other beauty for us of Ramsgate Station is that it has the potential to become
a handling hub for rail freight, there is land behind the station which can be
developed. Ramsgate Station is on the, an arm of the HS1 line and you can you
can get with overnight rail journeys from Ramsgate up to Willesden in northwest
London in 45 minutes. So, you know, all those things are big pluses for us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Editor's note: Remember this is the 1st time in 7 years talk about using Ramsgate station has been mooted. 1. "</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The other beauty for us of Ramsgate Station is that it has the potential to become a handling hub for rail freight, there is land behind the station which can be developed." </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5WYeEA8dWg1m8XZYZ8bq7qL5YA2wBnhPHnYBdVlyk7Iw26-WE14oaNhGI00S-fRr2j45idinv-fEKLc3bzQajypDsV9W42-Vs0D8EzbPvthUF5eZXKZ3CHGvfQcq6yC-lzvB3tdkDJM2r-MnVN8Iw9HHtmvMEDQsvSfowxRUFiCyudb3ycSrpdtDP=s1218" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1218" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5WYeEA8dWg1m8XZYZ8bq7qL5YA2wBnhPHnYBdVlyk7Iw26-WE14oaNhGI00S-fRr2j45idinv-fEKLc3bzQajypDsV9W42-Vs0D8EzbPvthUF5eZXKZ3CHGvfQcq6yC-lzvB3tdkDJM2r-MnVN8Iw9HHtmvMEDQsvSfowxRUFiCyudb3ycSrpdtDP=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>So what land is that RSP surely not Warre Recreation ground which looks like the only undeveloped site. Then there is the small matter of Newington road with a Fire Station and two schools.</b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes, definitely.
And what will the airport do for the local economy? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, it will it will
create jobs basically, you know it will create jobs, it will give opportunities
to youngsters who often have to leave the area when they leave school because
there are no jobs for them locally. We think it will transform the local
economy down here. We've, we've recently been working with Ramsgate Football
Club, we helped on a small project, school dinners at half term, and supported
that to some extent and it was, a you know, we knew but it was an eye opener to
us as to the levels of deprivation: youngsters coming from homes where there's
no work, parents who can't find work. And these are all human resources that
are available for us to use, use you know and the beauty of airports is it has
a range of employed employment, you know, from the you know, the firefighters
right down to the security guy who checks she was the gate, you know, so, all
of those things, umm, we can we can contribute we're and again, you know, we've
had a lot of criticism about the projections. What I suggest, people who are
sceptical about this is, they look at the number of jobs there are at similar
airports East Midlands Airport is a good comparative Well there are several
jobs. But the other thing with airports, and Stansted do this, is you have to
train people, you have to train school leavers. You're offering them, them,
them a career path which doesn't exist otherwise. We've started that process as
well, because it's all essential to support an airport. You can't just say we
want 1000 people tomorrow, please turn up at the gate because they're not
there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's note: As has been said on a number of occasions by expert opinion there maybe construction jobs (even that is unlikely to benefit locals as RSP anticipates employment for up to 90miles away). These jobs however will be short term but the affects of a Cargo hub over Ramsgate will mean the loss of many Leisure jobs as Ramsgate becomes the sacrifice, that is assuming the Cargo Hub doesn't become a white elephant.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15:51<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, no, no. And if
when you're given the go ahead to proceed with the development, how long will
it actually take to complete? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, it will take,
let's be optimistic, supposing we get a final go ahead next spring, we've then
got probably 9 to 12 months of detailed design work, survey work, off site road
planning, road improvements and that kind of thing. And what I also haven't
mentioned is putting in designs for the transport of goods from Ramsgate, from,
sorry, from Manston Airport to the port of Ramsgate and then up the River
Thames on hydrogen powered vessels, so all of that stuff will take some
planning. So we think in that scenario, if we get consent, spring, building
work will start perhaps the following January, 2023. And then, with a fair
wind, we could be open by the summer of 2024. That's the current projection. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wow! Yes, yes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I should also say
we, we estimate that the construction work will involve the employment of
between six and 800 people. So the jobs on the airport once construction starts
will be significant. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Editor's note: Presuming he means between 600-800 short term construction jobs from mostly large employers who will bring their own workforce.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, yes. And if
people want to find out more about the projects and more about Riveroak, is
there a website they can go <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a website is
it's rsp.co.uk - it's all on there. We put a news feed on there, we publish
material there... There's an awful lot there if they want to find out more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17:32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What's it thank you
very much for coming in and speaking to us today. Good luck with your projects,
and we will keep updated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FF5F31; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Freudmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17:40<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you. It's been a
pleasure. Thank you very much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #8A78F0; line-height: 11.25pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AF</span><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academy FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #8294a5; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17:43<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #05294b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you very much,
that's Tony Freeman, Director of RiverOak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-8035842343557694332021-11-17T08:59:00.018-08:002021-11-20T07:18:46.794-08:00Should the DfT make the decision about the DCO?<p> With all the current press about sleaze in the Conservative Party it is worth remembering that Grant Schapps is alleged to have recused himself from the original DCO decision because he appeared in front of the cameras with the "Save Manston Airport Association" in the past.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-kent-29261371?fbclid=IwAR0RPsjF_lqeYYu1W6IszvBnZ4TEr0UH0q3P8yYEXYChRPnvAEt_IarR1JQ">MP offers 'moral support' to Manston Airport campaigners - BBC News</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0PEe3uTBOkkPHNWjZON0fFg1Ym6qHa4nfUS67WYKHc5nCvvaAGRUnOnXtG9iMZ1565XA4cyPvtD7LF3e0pjSpmIH4nLovExR1EUtjWKq5lywdBgL_UsDiX7KfibJmsrRZu-TR5uJzFv1RB1XYVuJmAkArCaB4olyqful6ut14vhJ36ew7zctpMmCA=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0PEe3uTBOkkPHNWjZON0fFg1Ym6qHa4nfUS67WYKHc5nCvvaAGRUnOnXtG9iMZ1565XA4cyPvtD7LF3e0pjSpmIH4nLovExR1EUtjWKq5lywdBgL_UsDiX7KfibJmsrRZu-TR5uJzFv1RB1XYVuJmAkArCaB4olyqful6ut14vhJ36ew7zctpMmCA=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>So the original decision was made by Andrew Stephenson however Many people were concerned that the decision to grant the DCO was somewhat perverted because the Examination Report recommended refusal.</p><p><b>One wonders whether the Department for Transport made the decision simply because they wished to please the Minister (Grant Schapps) as he has a love of general aviation.</b></p><p>Now with the revelations being posted in the media one wonders if there is more to it than a love of general aviation.</p><p>The accusation by the Secretary of State of malpractice has been denied however if true it does seem the reason for the granting of the DCO was made, not on the facts, but on the whim of a love of aviation which is hardly the way to run a State Office. (extract of letter, original at the end)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlDszI7jbkc6B7MsBvUKlMXZ6N0aI-rdjInbi4JC-Yj0dLHUVdsgqTb4WYcWl4Wtrtzjyp5w4jAV1Xes_ndNIxEfoN3ACCHhZlUYOKvQi4ZscNQ-bSwKUxLzCjUwzhT1Xhnlo6FDDgPwYlpVajDRhWP4CKzELYpt32cNHZiebTEjH-NTlvj-Ag-FHw=s626" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="626" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlDszI7jbkc6B7MsBvUKlMXZ6N0aI-rdjInbi4JC-Yj0dLHUVdsgqTb4WYcWl4Wtrtzjyp5w4jAV1Xes_ndNIxEfoN3ACCHhZlUYOKvQi4ZscNQ-bSwKUxLzCjUwzhT1Xhnlo6FDDgPwYlpVajDRhWP4CKzELYpt32cNHZiebTEjH-NTlvj-Ag-FHw=w640-h456" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>There is a precedent for stopping disused airfields from being built on and in this case caused the loss of 6000 jobs. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfxDPQQmqEAd8R7fcZF3IruuvBMGs-agrxprb-4Yy2pURSvkdF1QuHKsmES4bEmxRijxno7rDhIwHf9rr44I_c1wmz2S08ecqR3VVKi4Dq1nZEYab-gVPy7e0si129xpAbrcBWrg0oI802rjyaalOipEwVOm83qdACTQsZ-2ksp8enLLyK_puMemHb=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1452" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfxDPQQmqEAd8R7fcZF3IruuvBMGs-agrxprb-4Yy2pURSvkdF1QuHKsmES4bEmxRijxno7rDhIwHf9rr44I_c1wmz2S08ecqR3VVKi4Dq1nZEYab-gVPy7e0si129xpAbrcBWrg0oI802rjyaalOipEwVOm83qdACTQsZ-2ksp8enLLyK_puMemHb=w454-h640" width="454" /></a></div><br /><p>Further in an article published in the Times of 13/11/2021 reproduced below and available <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/62eb0e48-44c9-11ec-b414-b1f6389ab345?shareToken=bf984e51589af4e3555ced781dc194fd&fbclid=IwAR265gwn3lvfV8KbqCkV9SMY95a5Ej1CeIqYyRGV1QJhbas93FSvRkSCnv4" target="_blank">here</a></p><p><i>"Between 2012
and 2018, he submitted a series of objections, often on parliamentary headed
notepaper, to proposed development at Panshanger, describing it as a community
asset which could “never be replaced”. Homes England is now selling the site
and the lease to the local flying club has been terminated.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Forced to
migrate to a makeshift runway on a field near his home, he joined campaigns to
prevent other airfields being built on elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>He returned
to the cabinet in July 2019, when Johnson became prime minister. Despite voting
Remain, he campaigned for Johnson and was rewarded with a plum post overseeing
transport.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p><b>In a letter
to Deirdre Hutton, then chairwoman of the CAA, he said his “key priorities”
included “supporting the success of the aviation industry ... including by
protecting the network of general aviation airfields” and “proactively advising
aerodromes faced with possible changes of use [planning applications] which
could constrain future flying”</b>.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Asking a
regulator to protect airfields from planning applications was unusual and
Hutton told him as much. Shapps disagreed, telling her he wanted Britain to
become the “best place in the world for aviation”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p><b>Shapps has
since redoubled his campaigning. He has set up and diverted public money to a
new team housed within the CAA: the Airfield Advisory Team, which, official
documents state, was designed with one goal in mind: helping private airfields
lobby against, or “engage with”, the planning system. Shapps has described its
work as “crucial”."</b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Whilst having an interest in aviation itself is not an issue, if true, this pervasive taint of "saving" brownfield sites (contrary to the wished of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove) instead of using them for building instead of land to grow crops would seem to fly in the face of Government edicts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">One wonders also whether the Westminster breakfast meetings organized and paid for by Riveroak Strategic Partners (RSP) has added to the pressure on the Secretary of State and whether RSP have made promises to the DfT which may have lead to the payment of £8.5M to RSP for "delaying" their plans for the ex-airport. This payment does seem somewhat perverse seeing as the DfT knew the DCO was about to be quashed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihUWa8pfrgy19gL6uqvqqqfv7oDNOdYG7cgO5YW76Wmhs7Ng258jRdLYv8koLLWaIrNJJNcobNof7hN_DFUltkH6_OaHJkh1y3k8VIjQZvyKkWIU0M3h-uHH8VTNe89V-J3BTlttSc3ySgR7K26FUcr5bfK8jStuj3_LiUoAnNUulTlWyCm4_AQTyD=s1409" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1409" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihUWa8pfrgy19gL6uqvqqqfv7oDNOdYG7cgO5YW76Wmhs7Ng258jRdLYv8koLLWaIrNJJNcobNof7hN_DFUltkH6_OaHJkh1y3k8VIjQZvyKkWIU0M3h-uHH8VTNe89V-J3BTlttSc3ySgR7K26FUcr5bfK8jStuj3_LiUoAnNUulTlWyCm4_AQTyD=w640-h254" width="640" /></a></div>You will note payment made just 6 days before the DfT concedes and payment was made on the say so of just one unknown person.<div><br /></div><div>Whatever is going on and how much is Grant Schapp's influence over decisions that should be based on facts not wishes is unknown however those elected should live by higher standards (Nolan Principles) in their Public Lives than they currently seem to be lately.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0a-cKNFUhNknztz1i3PBLbViDt3oUuwveR_mSe1QhQ8fpwwBJaB877rxSm5H8IDikmmQbciMKIkmKubrdCg3DkPGwb5sbsg16Nq1PodndMZzDJ7Zm4W1DlOvCpjIeBeicO8-zP75f-p9hkqeRs1TD8cZefzuCrywsYIo4nbAgUSSbeLqo1eTnmxKp=s755" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="755" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0a-cKNFUhNknztz1i3PBLbViDt3oUuwveR_mSe1QhQ8fpwwBJaB877rxSm5H8IDikmmQbciMKIkmKubrdCg3DkPGwb5sbsg16Nq1PodndMZzDJ7Zm4W1DlOvCpjIeBeicO8-zP75f-p9hkqeRs1TD8cZefzuCrywsYIo4nbAgUSSbeLqo1eTnmxKp=w400-h385" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Letter from Angela Rayner to Boris Johnson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBdLivFkyG84RBUbH16CIfPWJH18Hkn0bDWtJTrKeABzXCWEGhZKySM38RAXLMSKZhxba8tP-IRy_YKdZCa1auFvcSNhJiUUUbkquw_Nh6yZAy9oWZLfCA6GXb97_c0GGwNsRdwno-2_X3-8zpnexm973G8eJzNPCJMPgsMf67AAh9N0UJ7_BB8hJ5=s868" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="626" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBdLivFkyG84RBUbH16CIfPWJH18Hkn0bDWtJTrKeABzXCWEGhZKySM38RAXLMSKZhxba8tP-IRy_YKdZCa1auFvcSNhJiUUUbkquw_Nh6yZAy9oWZLfCA6GXb97_c0GGwNsRdwno-2_X3-8zpnexm973G8eJzNPCJMPgsMf67AAh9N0UJ7_BB8hJ5=w289-h400" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRg4XSFWg2LaSgle8EWOWR0Tjob0Xwq9K7qsnBABA6Q78IHntp18JCXP2UtkeoaV9Dek1P9gQAnHVcWLuFhQqF8aaxvfJGhrm5TVRKvnexdCqN8NiniwolhuIOZ7wZoH6dhYV0Lnc-OwyZwZny4512RMUCLKx3Jb1Hu93hhAwTGjFq08XmnAhNIG3Y=s847" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="602" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRg4XSFWg2LaSgle8EWOWR0Tjob0Xwq9K7qsnBABA6Q78IHntp18JCXP2UtkeoaV9Dek1P9gQAnHVcWLuFhQqF8aaxvfJGhrm5TVRKvnexdCqN8NiniwolhuIOZ7wZoH6dhYV0Lnc-OwyZwZny4512RMUCLKx3Jb1Hu93hhAwTGjFq08XmnAhNIG3Y=w284-h400" width="284" /></a></div><br /><div>Reproduced full article from Times 13/11/2021</div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>In the final days of the parliamentary recess in September,
Grant Shapps made an unorthodox journey for a cabinet minister. The transport
secretary flew solo in his personal plane from a farm near his Hertfordshire
home to Sywell, an aerodrome in Northamptonshire.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Shapps, 53, was there for the rally of the Light Aircraft
Association: an annual jamboree for aviation enthusiasts from across Europe.
Having obtained a licence in his twenties, he remains a flying fanatic and the
proud owner of a £100,000 Piper Saratoga.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p>Shortly
after arriving, he went to chat with the editor of his favourite magazine,
Flyer, which represents the interests of amateur pilots, including campaigning
to block development on Britain’s private airfields.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Shapps told
him: “Because I was reading your last month’s edition, I had sent a message to
my office at DfT and asked them to invite you in so you can challenge on some
of these things ... to see what else we should be doing.” The minister joked:
“We’ll even have coffee!”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Perhaps it
is not a surprise he has brought his boyish enthusiasm for flying into
government. It may even appear an advantage, giving him knowledge of a niche
and technical area within his remit.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>However, it
has had far-reaching effects in Whitehall, secretly pitting him against the
prime minister and frustrating efforts to build more homes and tackle climate
change.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>His
department is quietly spending public money funding lobbying against the
government’s own housing plans where development would take place on private
runways — including some he has personally used.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>As a result,
Homes England, the housing agency overseen by Michael Gove, has already
withdrawn plans for a new town with thousands of homes in one of the most
housing-stressed areas in the country.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>The
lobbyists are also battling against plans to build a battery gigafactory on
Coventry airport. Boris Johnson has praised the development and it is supposed
to deliver thousands of jobs while helping Britain to achieve its net-zero ambitions.
According to flight traffic data, Shapps recently flew his plane on to the
airfield.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>He has set
up a scheme that lets private pilots claim public money for new equipment, and
allegedly lobbied against a looming ban on a kind of toxic fuel used by his
aeroplane.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>His love of
aviation has taken up valuable time in a department with a budget of £3 billion
whose recent responsibilities have included dealing with post-Brexit trade
disruption, delivering protective personal equipment from abroad, overseeing
HS2 and building roads and rail infrastructure.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>It is even
said to have undermined the government’s response during crises such as the
collapse of Thomas Cook, which heralded the biggest repatriation since Dunkirk.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>At the time
of the holiday firm collapse, in September 2019, the then chairwoman of the
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the aviation regulator which belongs to his
department, was forced to ask Shapps to stop demanding staff time to discuss
amateur aviation. Shapps allegedly “backed off”, and let the CAA grapple with
its biggest peacetime crisis.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Tension
persisted during the early days of the pandemic, when Shapps was regarded by
some civil servants as going awol and dedicating more time to his hobby than
the imminent peril facing airlines. It is even claimed the chief executive of
one airline considered writing a public letter demanding he focus on the task
at hand.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>A civil
service source said bluntly that he remained “obsessed” with general aviation.
The obsession began in 1995 when Shapps, then a photocopier salesman in his
early twenties, obtained his pilot licence. He married, bought a printing
business, and endured cancer, but remained a devotee of the world of general
aviation or “GA”, the recreational use of aircraft.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Since 2005,
he has lived in and represented Welwyn Hatfield, a London green-belt
Conservative seat with a majority greater than 10,000. For years he lived a
15-minute drive from Panshanger airfield, a former RAF training site.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Under David
Cameron, Shapps grew in stature: having seized his seat from Labour, he was
appointed to a housing role in the shadow cabinet. In 2010 he became a minister
and, in due course, Conservative Party co-chairman.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>He found
himself in the wilderness once Theresa May became prime minister and turned his
political focus to his longstanding love. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of
the all-party parliamentary group on aviation, and campaigned relentlessly
against the scourge of recreational pilots: planning applications to build on
private airfields.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>He argued
the hobby had reached a “critical point” as “more of our airfields disappear
under housing developments and more of our common airspace is closed off”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Between 2012
and 2018, he submitted a series of objections, often on parliamentary headed
notepaper, to proposed development at Panshanger, describing it as a community
asset which could “never be replaced”. Homes England is now selling the site
and the lease to the local flying club has been terminated.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Forced to
migrate to a makeshift runway on a field near his home, he joined campaigns to
prevent other airfields being built on elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>He returned
to the cabinet in July 2019, when Johnson became prime minister. Despite voting
Remain, he campaigned for Johnson and was rewarded with a plum post overseeing
transport.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>In a letter
to Deirdre Hutton, then chairwoman of the CAA, he said his “key priorities”
included “supporting the success of the aviation industry ... including by
protecting the network of general aviation airfields” and “proactively advising
aerodromes faced with possible changes of use [planning applications] which
could constrain future flying”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Asking a
regulator to protect airfields from planning applications was unusual and
Hutton told him as much. Shapps disagreed, telling her he wanted Britain to
become the “best place in the world for aviation”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Shapps has
since redoubled his campaigning. He has set up and diverted public money to a
new team housed within the CAA: the Airfield Advisory Team, which, official
documents state, was designed with one goal in mind: helping private airfields
lobby against, or “engage with”, the planning system. Shapps has described its
work as “crucial”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>The team
leaders are private consultants brought in from outside government and given civil
service salaries.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Around the
same time, Shapps created a £2 million fund allowing pilots and airfield
operators to get free management consultancy from a Texas-based international
lobbying firm, ICF Consultancy Services, on how to, among other things,
successfully object to planning applications. He has called it the Airfield
Development Fund<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Documents
show the new team has lobbied against plans to build homes over private runways
and plans put forward by the government. Private lobbyists employed by the
government are now lobbying against the government.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>In some
instances, the lobbying frustrated Johnson’s central objective of building
homes outside of London. On May 25, 2021, Homes England withdrew plans for
3,000 homes at Chalgrove, an airfield in South Oxfordshire, to “take account
[of] comments from the . . . airfield advisory team”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>The team had
lodged formal objections to the plans, declaring “protection of airfields is a
priority for [the] DfT”. Last night, Homes England accepted they had pulled the
plans while emphasising the urgency of building homes in that area.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Homes are
not the only instance in which Shapps’s decisions conflict directly with the
priorities of the government he represents.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>As part of
its commitment to tackling climate change, the government have long sought to
phase out a highly toxic and dangerous substance, tetraethyllead, which forms
part of the fuel used in planes similar to Shapps’s. Last April, however,
Martin Robinson, head of the biggest group representing aircraft owners and
pilots, contracted Shapps asking if the government could extend a transition
period before an eventual ban. He says the transport secretary responded: “On
it.”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Last month,
British regulators confirmed they would not place the substance on a list of
substances of “very high concern”, marking one of the most significant cases of
divergence from the EU rules since Brexit.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Shapps has
also funded a scheme allowing pilots to claim money for 50 per cent of the cost
of buying specialist kit for their planes. Since last year, the DfT, and, in
turn, the taxpayer have covered half the cost of purchases of “electronic
conspicuity” equipment, which allows planes to see each other in mid-air.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Around the
time Shapps started his post, a senior civil servant is said to have asked him
what his main priority was. Shapps responded: “Protecting general aviation.”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Homes
England said the planning application at Chalgrove airfield “has been withdrawn
to allow an amended application to be submitted to take account of comments
from the Civil Aviation Authority’s Airfield Advisory Team”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>It
emphasised its intention to resubmit plans in light of the “considerable
housing shortfall”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>A Department
for Transport spokesperson said: “It is right that the transport secretary
works to promote all aspects of the department’s brief including the general
aviation sector.”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Sources said
the Airfield Advisory Team was an “advisory team”, not a lobbying body, that
helps to liaise with organisations to ensure “informed decisions can be made by
local planning authorities”.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p> </o:p>They said
Shapps responded to a lobbyist’s requests by emailing his office reminding them
he wanted to see “action” on removing lead from fuel. Doing so, the sources
suggested, would facilitate a future ban on the dangerous chemical.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>The
government provided a statement from John Holland-Kaye, the chief executive of
Heathrow airport. He said: “The biggest thing aviation has needed in the last
18 months is to get borders open safely again and Grant Shapps has worked
tirelessly to deliver this.”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Response from Grants Schapps</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzAYCwPltN815oxqRy0BObUrgROD78you8D7r_6hunTiP7OCcfzBCcE7A9g9vTLc5SqllNTNwSc4fTR40OnFz-Np2TJFUN7_Sxh3cc9r6rgByR9XZHrxFc1FLk_ULSzolnX9Oa8fpUfDX9GWxUkhxwMLOjl0Gecq0mGe-JX_RUzhVEpWXVRvEsLLx9=s847" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="610" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzAYCwPltN815oxqRy0BObUrgROD78you8D7r_6hunTiP7OCcfzBCcE7A9g9vTLc5SqllNTNwSc4fTR40OnFz-Np2TJFUN7_Sxh3cc9r6rgByR9XZHrxFc1FLk_ULSzolnX9Oa8fpUfDX9GWxUkhxwMLOjl0Gecq0mGe-JX_RUzhVEpWXVRvEsLLx9=w288-h400" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPkTzxVRZNDj6tdLU1XwjguZVkpeQHf5_FuxmcWyH47zJWEW2jKg-84cURmBMGaLGzlH5tebU3I--sdbj-KaCSntFXG06mCQinGy37JxzWN0a2WmAYXoX7sWwP71iTpsXnay7FpthJUTtHm1OkaZxxGVM7n9N0DRUHJHTHAK_K__6lzheg-DtMttcN=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPkTzxVRZNDj6tdLU1XwjguZVkpeQHf5_FuxmcWyH47zJWEW2jKg-84cURmBMGaLGzlH5tebU3I--sdbj-KaCSntFXG06mCQinGy37JxzWN0a2WmAYXoX7sWwP71iTpsXnay7FpthJUTtHm1OkaZxxGVM7n9N0DRUHJHTHAK_K__6lzheg-DtMttcN=w290-h400" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1OVM3i3q61eIi1GGhXA2DaW8aRyd96YJ6XMbdVuIjVU3EdBv2MIV2mJ6Kxh58kXHpsVeZCaZcMDBii_4PYKGhoAIVYKeQvGmljNwR5lmkXea3D9LkxeKGpslxL3GIFWkB-q5YEJkOqcUMqERmjAnddWBfDuo2CFvt7xZZmX1UzDutx9o5j0BjYoul=s847" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="597" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1OVM3i3q61eIi1GGhXA2DaW8aRyd96YJ6XMbdVuIjVU3EdBv2MIV2mJ6Kxh58kXHpsVeZCaZcMDBii_4PYKGhoAIVYKeQvGmljNwR5lmkXea3D9LkxeKGpslxL3GIFWkB-q5YEJkOqcUMqERmjAnddWBfDuo2CFvt7xZZmX1UzDutx9o5j0BjYoul=w283-h400" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG3RLXRtBB-Tq_i99QaZqgR_RPyERk8S2fbqp64JfEzF8YnkANFVv-2CecK31XDTm-1b2eyNf1x5gGchF4YD7nW25aJ050i_-5TwfPzrX0GhFaCxRWsGPSuQIDSClUgopBsbpk_P2QqcldJCEfDa_CIdJ-7ncBVy7SYMYGPcyvXNFhoJnrPqhQeniA=s832" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="591" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG3RLXRtBB-Tq_i99QaZqgR_RPyERk8S2fbqp64JfEzF8YnkANFVv-2CecK31XDTm-1b2eyNf1x5gGchF4YD7nW25aJ050i_-5TwfPzrX0GhFaCxRWsGPSuQIDSClUgopBsbpk_P2QqcldJCEfDa_CIdJ-7ncBVy7SYMYGPcyvXNFhoJnrPqhQeniA=w284-h400" width="284" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-9492845867704231002020-12-17T10:32:00.000-08:002020-12-17T10:32:37.105-08:00Heathrow decision and how it relates to Manston<p> What follows is a tweetroll from Jason written after the Supreme Court overturned the Govt decision to quash the permission for the 3rd Runway at Heathrow. The conclusion is that this <b>benefits</b> the decision to stop the DCO for Manston airport.</p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What next for </span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Heathrow?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#Heathrow</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">? </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A </span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thread?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#thread</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> based on our experience with the UK's first (and only) airport DCO, </span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Manston?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#Manston</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/slmjh51012" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@slmjh51012</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s recent presentation for the </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/The_AEF" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@The_AEF</a>'s <span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> AGM.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today's Supreme Court Judgment confirms what we knew ... an airport development's impact on ability of Govt to meet its Paris Agreement (PA) obligations will be examined and determined at DCO stage </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlc-FJEeGjT-Q0uhKzAnlZe1F0KBMbINP0ZkDvoossS3zN5dF7XVmKCUbSfZ6ILZ3cLYyuH1aDXaKbO9wZdf9iF__xWnR4U5b9hVpskP5e9lbF-eVzSNMVVZKw8FCQK4PKF_hB-0wTAI/s2247/EpXIor7XYAI_Iri.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="2247" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlc-FJEeGjT-Q0uhKzAnlZe1F0KBMbINP0ZkDvoossS3zN5dF7XVmKCUbSfZ6ILZ3cLYyuH1aDXaKbO9wZdf9iF__xWnR4U5b9hVpskP5e9lbF-eVzSNMVVZKw8FCQK4PKF_hB-0wTAI/w640-h146/EpXIor7XYAI_Iri.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All eyes now on Section 104 of the Planning Act 2008, which sets out what the Secretary of State must consider in determining a DCO where a National Policy Statement - in this case the ANPS - has effect</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfP5GC5Xbtb4s_Z-qUxpaenzsoJnhCcMpuIbdGnvmYRWBHVqzUQjgVrQhO4zmogX4zCQgS4gPfr1a04mtgdSw4eRbUWJO1lyjk-RCsaKwiMZ2hCApXDy9oPzZpWvEuxqD_udY_-18KTx4/s2048/EpXIpHSW4AAN1ky.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfP5GC5Xbtb4s_Z-qUxpaenzsoJnhCcMpuIbdGnvmYRWBHVqzUQjgVrQhO4zmogX4zCQgS4gPfr1a04mtgdSw4eRbUWJO1lyjk-RCsaKwiMZ2hCApXDy9oPzZpWvEuxqD_udY_-18KTx4/w640-h296/EpXIpHSW4AAN1ky.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worth noting that if Supreme Court had reached a different decision and ANPS was ruled unlawful, Heathrow could still apply for DCO and Section 105 of Planning Act would come into play in determining the DCO. Here it is</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZb-aCIejKG3pPHRfVBqkrGcrIFYdCV5pxaI1WdQsY2QzPcrZ2hODXEtDlnaUkwHH2NMoNJkMYc1HSEg0xsTQs0cstsAEE1T4J-WDcQSUkruEn14_P1okXPFfcrSmbmFFdmqKahjm-Do/s2048/EpXIpe7XYAEWAo0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZb-aCIejKG3pPHRfVBqkrGcrIFYdCV5pxaI1WdQsY2QzPcrZ2hODXEtDlnaUkwHH2NMoNJkMYc1HSEg0xsTQs0cstsAEE1T4J-WDcQSUkruEn14_P1okXPFfcrSmbmFFdmqKahjm-Do/w640-h296/EpXIpe7XYAEWAo0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So was the airport development's impact on Govt Paris Agreement commitments taken into account for Manston DCO? Kind of. </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/PINSgov" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@PINSgov</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/grantshapps" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@grantshapps</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> accepted it would put UK in breach - of even older targets - and this should carry "moderate weight"</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirzPEh7sU9Z99zOpvEdaZ1o2w0lllIKapL6pEroxmhzOxI0uahhytllfA3D3Nu_ZnobL1oEe89p_AgQ6dsbeYgunu12-F7YqTbfBFElJDSntMQQ8ZnR4jC8auqoHIYYfffNXuHWZdf5uI/s2048/EpXIp1PWMAM9VVj.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirzPEh7sU9Z99zOpvEdaZ1o2w0lllIKapL6pEroxmhzOxI0uahhytllfA3D3Nu_ZnobL1oEe89p_AgQ6dsbeYgunu12-F7YqTbfBFElJDSntMQQ8ZnR4jC8auqoHIYYfffNXuHWZdf5uI/w640-h296/EpXIp1PWMAM9VVj.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climate Change was one of many grounds why </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/PINSgov" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@PINSgov</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> recommended refusal of this airport DCO - others included issues around need, heritage impact, noise, poor surface access, devastation caused to historic town of Ramsgate, negative tourism impact etc.</span><p></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/grantshapps" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@grantshapps</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> original decision was to overrule </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/PINSgov" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@PINSgov</a> <span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and grant DCO anyway. Why? Well ... Not quite sure. Successful JR forced Govt to concede it had not given clear reasons to grant DCO, so decision will soon be quashed</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manston DCO decision will now be re-determined. This matters for Heathrow - and others. If we are to have any confidence whatsoever in DCO process, as LHR Supreme Court decision suggests, </span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Manston?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#Manston</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> DCO must surely now be refused</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Local campaigners are prepared to take this further with continued JR if needs be. Not sure </span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/grantshapps" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@grantshapps</a> <span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">wants this going to court as risks creating case law that may impact on future airport DCOs</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">What follows is the conclusion by No 3rd Runway Coalition</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2mnlvOi0jAHIkkPnEnt3_nKUIIkwUDTvMwmUj2EwqOektNLAl0N5EyDuZ5oI1TW9-sZ0SXbneitZNY0S28muqmwt-tQ1jEypdwYVjIEWPDQ2zeL0XcfHy_Lb41oh9igts-uEbZ2GKcI/s744/Screenshot+2020-12-17+18.22.21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="573" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2mnlvOi0jAHIkkPnEnt3_nKUIIkwUDTvMwmUj2EwqOektNLAl0N5EyDuZ5oI1TW9-sZ0SXbneitZNY0S28muqmwt-tQ1jEypdwYVjIEWPDQ2zeL0XcfHy_Lb41oh9igts-uEbZ2GKcI/w493-h640/Screenshot+2020-12-17+18.22.21.png" width="493" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQEzfu-ZFzovU8ZIZj7KYDuR0rHGLOMp7ZrIreVnSCeBGVJ7Fihxn8rFabzCgp_tsU84-FZwYkpFf4JP7zbKrHlMIANy7btBh-JuIwyMRXZrHvvemf5aDjiVbV1_9352gEmY3e2fGzM/s674/Screenshot+2020-12-17+18.22.32.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQEzfu-ZFzovU8ZIZj7KYDuR0rHGLOMp7ZrIreVnSCeBGVJ7Fihxn8rFabzCgp_tsU84-FZwYkpFf4JP7zbKrHlMIANy7btBh-JuIwyMRXZrHvvemf5aDjiVbV1_9352gEmY3e2fGzM/w546-h640/Screenshot+2020-12-17+18.22.32.png" width="546" /></a></div><br /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-60502883409185403882020-12-05T06:04:00.000-08:002020-12-05T06:04:01.339-08:00The common denominator<p>With the news that the DCO will be quashed because the DoT have withdrawn one can't but feel that there is a common thread running through this sorry saga. This thread has one main person who has instigated most of the failures, That is Anthony (Tony) Freudmann. In short this is the timeline to the current fiasco</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RCR5aCf0Bs-d_sDG2STUI8lsh19Y7CLTnqKbXpq5ZwmsD47F49vHFfSh83mC3j07HlSTq3mYhda1fEfZJKOl8BQuH3khjLmKKbiM1X0Xc99UCE1C1bmW1kyPhUMmrMgZ6rrlEdWIAg8/s847/Screenshot+2020-08-07+21.44.27.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="847" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RCR5aCf0Bs-d_sDG2STUI8lsh19Y7CLTnqKbXpq5ZwmsD47F49vHFfSh83mC3j07HlSTq3mYhda1fEfZJKOl8BQuH3khjLmKKbiM1X0Xc99UCE1C1bmW1kyPhUMmrMgZ6rrlEdWIAg8/w400-h371/Screenshot+2020-08-07+21.44.27.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>2013 - Tony approaches TDC to see if they would entertain 1000 on the Northern Grass.</p><p>2014 - Tony ropes in Sir Roger Gale to make an 11th hour bid for the airport. This is rejected</p><p>2014/15 - Tony makes 3 approaches to TDC to partner for a CPO (Compulsory Purchase Order) which all fail mainly because he cannot prove he can safeguard the council. (He has no money)</p><p>2016/17 -Tony regroups, dumps Steve DeNardo and the original Riveroak, gains new backers and tries again with a Development Consent Order (DCO)</p><p>2018 - First try of a DCO submitted January 2018</p><p>2018 - RSP withdraw the DCO because it failed to pass muster</p><p>2018 - RSP resubmit a revised DCO in July. This time it is accepted for examination</p><p>2019 - National Planning conclude their report in October forwarding it to the Department of Transport for the Secretary of State's verdict. The 1097 pages of the report conclude it should be <b>rejected</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGPVpgiJxaAUsDEh7yargqJk1XRBCwYoJaVuwTBiH2j5M9f6KlEbSuO7lTSuWdURQs-SYcz5IDGoxBke5vMQtYvtsVBg_U-zJ7iAO38BPndcuPAt9OMBD2MHysJuLegSjxA-_8BI1bRI/s922/Screenshot+2020-12-05+13.23.08.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="922" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGPVpgiJxaAUsDEh7yargqJk1XRBCwYoJaVuwTBiH2j5M9f6KlEbSuO7lTSuWdURQs-SYcz5IDGoxBke5vMQtYvtsVBg_U-zJ7iAO38BPndcuPAt9OMBD2MHysJuLegSjxA-_8BI1bRI/w400-h371/Screenshot+2020-12-05+13.23.08.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>2020 - The deputy to the SoS Grant Schapps overturns the decision and issues a letter setting out his reasons. You can read the letter <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005348-Manston%20Airport%20DCO%20Decision%20Letter%20Dated%209%20July%202020%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> </p><p>The objectors join forces and ask for a Judicial Review.</p><p>The SoS withdraws in December clearing the way for the DCO to be quashed. The Legal verdict is as follows:</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">... yesterday my solicitors received a letter from the Treasury Solicitor, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport, which said "</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>my client has agreed to concede this claim on the basis of ground 1(b), namely that the Secretary of State did not give adequate reasons in his decision letter to enable the reader to understand why he disagreed with the Examining Authority Report on the issue of need for the development of Manston Airport</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>"</b>. We subsequently learned that the Interested Party, RiverOak Strategic Partners Ltd, <b>will not be defending their claim</b>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Here is the full text of Ground 1(b): Failure to Give Reasons:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">75. S.116 of the 2008 Act and Regulation 30 of the EIA Regulations both impose a duty on the Defendant to give reasons for granting a DCO. In South Buckinghamshire DC v Porter [2004] UKHL 33, the House of Lords confirmed that any such reasons must be adequate and intelligible, and enable the reader to understand why the matter was decided as it was and what conclusions were reached on the principal important controversial issues.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">76. As to the quality of the reasons for disagreeing with the ExA on “need”, given that the </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Defendant (SoS)asked himself entirely the wrong question, falsely eliding “need” with “benefit”, his reasons for disagreeing with the ExA on need are, inevitably, inadequate, improper and unintelligible. An informed reader of the DL is wholly unable to discern:</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>a. Why the Defendant considered that there was a “clear case of need” for the development which existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted and EMA) could not meet.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>b. Upon what basis the quantum of anticipated need for freight had been assessed by him.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>c. Upon what basis the capacity of existing airports within the south east to accommodate that quantum of need had been assessed by him.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>d. Whether, and if so why, he considered those existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted and EMA) not to be preferred locations to meet that quantum of need.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>e. To what extent he considered need could not be met in the bellyhold of passenger flights to and from those existing airports.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>f. Whether, and if so why, he considered that facilities could not be constructed at those existing airports to meet that quantum of need.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>g. Upon what basis the Defendant disagreed with the expert evidence produced by York Aviation, and others, against the need case.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">77. These issues were all addressed in detail in the Examining Authority’s report, but were not mentioned, let alone grappled with, in the Defendant’s perfunctory and dismissive Decision Letter.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>What happens next</b></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Following the quashing of the Manston Airport Development Consent Order 2020 by the Court, the Secretary of State will write to all interested parties, setting out key issues and inviting further written representations on those issues. (<b><i>editor's comment, he may of course walk away like happened with the Heathrow decision)</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Interested parties include the applicant, the local authority and anyone who previously registered by filling out a Relevant Representation form at the inquiry stage (and had it accepted as valid).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The Secretary of State will make a decision based on the Examining Authority’s Report and the further representations. The Secretary of State has three months to make a decision but this can be extended.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The decision could be either a refusal to make a Manston Airport Development Consent Order or a decision to grant such a Consent Order.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">If a DCO is refused, RSP may wish to bring a judicial review. I would be an Interested Party in any such challenge.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">If a DCO is granted, another judicial review can be brought on the existing grounds and any further grounds that may arise on review of the decision letter.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> Any money left over from the current Crowd Justice campaign can be held in readiness and used towards a second judicial review. (This comes after costs are paid by the defendants)</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Conclusion</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">At the start of this post I stated there is a common thread of failure and that hasn't changed. Freudmann has been the thread and everything he touches ends in failure. Even when the Tory Chumocracy sides with Tony he still fails.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">1st he has no money then he cannot prove there is even a need for a Cargo Hub (he still hasn't shown he has the money to rebuild Manston) yet listening to the Airport supporters everyone else is to blame. Sooner or later they will come to their senses but the hurt will linger for a long, long time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMklD9k7HQBxf7varFBwBqGsUezG7Rgu-nWIeVkc0Dl2KPx2SxDyzjA1q57Fy3jX0uxVM8I54uCxYejo5CCplS40ivLeuVfVubkQT9NAAYPNuH_Vw5KslqMdA2Wsg9JKIiyk1sYm7fZyY/s1650/ostrich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMklD9k7HQBxf7varFBwBqGsUezG7Rgu-nWIeVkc0Dl2KPx2SxDyzjA1q57Fy3jX0uxVM8I54uCxYejo5CCplS40ivLeuVfVubkQT9NAAYPNuH_Vw5KslqMdA2Wsg9JKIiyk1sYm7fZyY/w309-h400/ostrich.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-11024951986327479982020-12-02T09:22:00.002-08:002020-12-02T09:22:39.579-08:00Manston DCO quashed<p>Is this the beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning? Is the thought that runs through my head as I heard the news that the DoT and RSP had given up their legal case for the reopening of Manston airport today.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoiuDrJjPhFDsTXXf8GOMCM6GGlpFubRVrMr9ygMP7aqzJBFTtAYV-4Tbz6Nwh5t8VXpqIooabRJ3UMkZefq39omv0h5ip_5z3dUQ8goFMErQMiDFD7ZIk33KrOb9pO2QMh04b0FMNYo/s810/1_Wiki1280px-Thanet_-_Thanet_Scenery_geograph_5434042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="810" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoiuDrJjPhFDsTXXf8GOMCM6GGlpFubRVrMr9ygMP7aqzJBFTtAYV-4Tbz6Nwh5t8VXpqIooabRJ3UMkZefq39omv0h5ip_5z3dUQ8goFMErQMiDFD7ZIk33KrOb9pO2QMh04b0FMNYo/w400-h266/1_Wiki1280px-Thanet_-_Thanet_Scenery_geograph_5434042.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The news broke this morning in a flurry of emails from the Judicial Review Legal team representing Jenny Dawes, however Sir Roger Gale issued an ambiguous statement yesterday which I reproduce.</p><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><i>Manston Airport – Decision delay. (<b>Statement by Roger Gale)</b></i></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><i>The future of Manston Airport has been subjected to further delay in the light of the application for Judicial Review.</i></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><i>The Department of Transport <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">has acknowledged</span></span> that the Minister of State`s decision letter could have contained more information as to reasons. (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">In other words the DoT concedes that the grounds for overturning the decision by 4 planning Inspectors was weak and not sustainable</span></span>)</i></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><i>That being so the Department has conceded these grounds (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"> yes conceded and what follows is spin</span></span>) and will no doubt wish to afford all parties the opportunity to make further submissions before <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">re-visiting the DCO</span></span> (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">in other words re-submitting yet another application</span></span>) and issuing a further and more detailed letter of determination in due course.</i></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><i>With the endgame of Brexit fast approaching the need for the airport is stronger not weaker (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Spin because aviation has fallen off a cliff</span></span>): the airfield is contracted for use as a lorry park for twelve months <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">(is that so Roger because the DoT only said until July 2021. What have you heard about Brexit people need to know?</span></span>)so the effects of the delay, while tiresome ought to be minimal and I remain confident that the right decisions will be taken in the interests of Thanet, Kent and the United Kingdom and that planes will be flying again from Manston in a couple of years time. (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">wishful thinking seeing as the DoT has conceded then RSP need to make a statement about the land use soonest</span></span>)</i></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;">(Editor's comments in <b>Bold</b> and it is also clear that he knew RSP had also withdrawn which he fails to mention)</div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Today Jenny's legal team also issued a statement</div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yesterday my solicitors received a letter from the Treasury Solicitor, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport, which said “<b>my client has agreed to concede this claim on the basis of ground 1(b), namely that the Secretary of State did not give adequate reasons in his decision letter to enable the reader to understand why he disagreed with the Examining Authority Report on the issue of need for the development of Manston Airport</b>”.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We subsequently learned that the Interested Party, RiverOak Strategic Partners Ltd, will not be defending their claim."</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My lawyers set out three grounds of challenge to the decision to grant a Development Consent Order for the re-opening and development of Manston Airport:</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Ground 1: Need</b></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Ground 2: Breach of Procedural Requirement/Unfairness</b></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Ground 3: Net Zero Duty</b></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Treasury Solicitor will now draft an order disposing of the case. The order will have to be approved by all parties and submitted to the Court to be sealed – this final step may take several weeks.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This update is couched in very formal language but I’m enormously relieved to have got this far and bowled over by all the support I’ve received. It’s been a joint effort!”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Further the letter copied onto the crowdfunder webpage states <b>ground 1b</b> is as follows</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Here is the full text of Ground 1(b): Failure to Give Reasons:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">75. S.116 of the 2008 Act and Regulation 30 of the EIA Regulations both impose a duty on the Defendant to give reasons for granting a DCO. In South Buckinghamshire DC v Porter [2004] UKHL 33, the House of Lords confirmed that any such reasons must be adequate and intelligible, and enable the reader to understand why the matter was decided as it was and what conclusions were reached on the principal important controversial issues.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">76. As to the quality of the reasons for disagreeing with the ExA on “need”, <b>given that the </b></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Defendant asked himself entirely the wrong question, falsely eliding “need” with “benefit”, his reasons for disagreeing with the ExA on need are, inevitably, inadequate, improper and unintelligible. An informed reader of the DL is wholly unable to discern:</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">a<b>. Why the Defendant considered that there was a “clear case of need” for the development which existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted and EMA) could not meet.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>b. Upon what basis the quantum of anticipated need for freight had been assessed by him.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>c. Upon what basis the capacity of existing airports within the south east to accommodate that quantum of need had been assessed by him.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>d. Whether, and if so why, he considered those existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted and EMA) not to be preferred locations to meet that quantum of need.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>e. To what extent he considered need could not be met in the bellyhold of passenger flights to and from those existing airports.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>f. Whether, and if so why, he considered that facilities could not be constructed at those existing airports to meet that quantum of need.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>g. Upon what basis the Defendant disagreed with the expert evidence produced by York Aviation, and others, against the need case.</b></em></p></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Now the spin has started and the 3 parties (RSP, Airport supporters and those against the airport reopening) are discussing this on social media have differing opinions on just what this all means. </div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;">RSP put out a statement this afternoon which any reasonable person could drive a bus through but the airport supporters are content to ignore the problems.</div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;">RSP Statement</div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“Naturally the Department for Transport’s decision not to contest the Judicial Review is disappointing (<b>what an understatement</b>), although it may in fact save time (<b>what?</b>). It is a feature of the DCO process that, in order for more information to be provided by the Secretary of State on the reasons for his decision, the decision must be re-taken, and so the project is effectively back to the final decision stage (<b>which was to refuse the DCO in case you forget</b>).</i></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“We faced a similar situation two years ago when we withdrew our DCO application, to provide additional information, before successfully resubmitting it for acceptance. It’s important that this is done correctly, in order that Manston can deliver on its full potential, and we welcome the Government’s decision being put on as robust a basis as possible.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“RSP remains confident in our proposals and of the increasing need for Manston to support the UK’s freight handling capabilities (<b>which for those that research it have been well covered at Heathrow, East Midlands and Stanstead)</b>, post-Brexit and to aid the economic recovery from COVID-19. We will make additional representations, when invited to do so, with evidence from across the last 18 months (since the DCO examination stage closed) – and look forward to publication of the Secretary of State’s comprehensive assessment of the basis for granting the DCO, early in 2021, so that we may begin works to restore the airport to operational use.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“In the meantime, we continue the CAA airspace change process to determine the future flightpaths for Manston and we have, this week, also reached agreement for Manston to be used as a temporary Customs outpost, until July 2021.”</i></p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet this rather "uplifting" statement totally ignores the decision by 4 experienced planning inspectors that the DCO should be refused. I reproduce the reasons and any discerning person will conclude that these reasons tally with the Legal opinion quoted above</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjEawDpRcJdvL74OPKRQPyh0WWJO9BJ14gLwOp-erc6PmZWz1PY54lqVOXbEOZ1tLRqm0zADBir-ukLZD8AezcJz79djmWCq3psoUW9Js7fx1L4qVYMUSf2Tgqgds71lWo_QE4D1BShu0/s976/reasons+conclusion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="976" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjEawDpRcJdvL74OPKRQPyh0WWJO9BJ14gLwOp-erc6PmZWz1PY54lqVOXbEOZ1tLRqm0zADBir-ukLZD8AezcJz79djmWCq3psoUW9Js7fx1L4qVYMUSf2Tgqgds71lWo_QE4D1BShu0/w640-h501/reasons+conclusion.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Given that RSP believe (in their statement) that "W<i>e will make additional representations, when invited to do so, with evidence from across the last 18 months (since the DCO examination stage closed) – and look forward to publication of the Secretary of State’s comprehensive assessment of the basis for granting the DCO, early in 2021</i>" In other words they seem to be giving the impression that the <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005348-Manston%20Airport%20DCO%20Decision%20Letter%20Dated%209%20July%202020%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">SoS reasons letter</a> issued when the DCO was granted would be rewritten to take account of Ground 1(b). </p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This quite frankly is a non-starter especially in view of the <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005347-TR020002%20Final%20Recommendation%20Report%20to%20DfT.pdf" target="_blank">original 1097 page</a> take down of RSP's case. published here in full (click on link)</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Further the grounds for a need for Manston cannot be made on grounds of need especially when the industry is in freefall. Passenger flights may recover by 2025 but passenger flights isn't the reason why the DCO was requested in the 1st place. The DCO (at the 2nd attempt) process was granted on the basis of a <b>N</b>ationally <b>S</b>ignificant <b>I</b>nfrastructure <b>P</b>roject for a Freight Hub generating at least 10000 movements annually. Even during the last 9 months of a pandemic when passenger flights were decimated Freight was carried in aircraft. In fact as bellyhold freight (mainly into Heathrow) had dropped freight into East Midlands and Stanstead increased. But and it is a big but they still had capacity to take more.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The future of freight carried in aircraft to the UK market will be in flux for sometime to come however the reasons for another freight hub in the geographical SE of England hasn't been made no matter how much spin the two Thanet MP's put forward and when this DCO is quashed in 3 weeks time the roadmap to reopening seems to have run into a roadblock</p></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-50335669427830698372020-10-03T12:21:00.007-07:002020-10-03T12:24:30.109-07:00Airfreight and Covid<p> Airfreight in the UK is divided into 2 separate and distinct types. The 1st is aircraft totally given over to bringing in and taking out airfreight, and the two main airports in the UK for freighters are East Midlands (built at the top of the "Golden Triangle") and Stanstead (built at the right hand point of the triangle).</p><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_4yxo" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;">The Golden Triangle</span></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spanning from Northamptonshire up the M1 to East Midlands Airport, and West as far as Tamworth area, the Golden Triangle is busting with logistics names. As well as being in proximity to the huge distribution centres of supermarkets and high street stores, Midlands-based supply chain companies enjoy access to over 90% of the UK population within 4 hours drive. And with the building of the inland port nearby to EMA this will only grow the sector.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="_4yxo" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Golden Triangle Advantages</span></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As well as the giants of UK haulage, smaller independent logistics compan<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ies are also numerous in this area; typically based in logistics centres. Proximity to major motorways, notably the M1 and M6, means that major cities such as London and Manchester are not difficult to reach from the Golden Triangle.</span></div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other advantage of being based in the Midlands is that it’s not London! The capital city may be the epicentre for arts, finance and the legal profession; but it isn’t necessarily somewhere you’d chose as base for a logistical operation. Aside from being less accessible to the North and Scotland, London’s huge demand and scarcity of property means rental for a typical premises is much more expensive than in the heart of England.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no official precise measurement of exactly what constitutes the Golden Triangle, but it pretty much covers Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, plus parts of Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) contains 1 million square feet of Tesco warehousing space, and rivals Asda have several units less than 20 miles away in Magna Park.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s no surprise, therefore, that the Midlands has close to 150 million square feet of warehouse space: more than twice the combined warehousing activity of London, Scotland, and Wales.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Thanks David Green</i></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will see why this is important when the figures for the 8 months of 2020 are examined.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TlusVDaYsRtXCljXATwyv6nCkPiTSbf_jiJajIBIqH6mrK-GRHg2TuQOJb8fMYo-oq42lBScN3snrUth2rf-8HPKRX5poWqfCbBpIYXZqOpUu-fh_Ze8Q80lUMSlkLaGuc_K01FCeT0/s602/Golden+Triangle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="602" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TlusVDaYsRtXCljXATwyv6nCkPiTSbf_jiJajIBIqH6mrK-GRHg2TuQOJb8fMYo-oq42lBScN3snrUth2rf-8HPKRX5poWqfCbBpIYXZqOpUu-fh_Ze8Q80lUMSlkLaGuc_K01FCeT0/w400-h266/Golden+Triangle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2nd is what is known as bellyhold (This is where long haul passenger aircraft offset the cost of freight carried in the hold with the price passengers pay for their seat). In previous years this meant that airfreight costs were up to 4X cheaper than if carried in a freighter aircraft and has been instrumental it the rise of Heathrow (and Gatwick to a lesser extent) because Heathrow has (up to 2019) carried 2/3rds of all the UK's airfreight.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u>Covid-19</u></b></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the collapse of passenger traffic in 2020 due to the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic it will be interesting to see just what affect the loss of bellyhold has had on the overall amount of freight carried in aircraft.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Firstly a starting point using Government figures and to put airfreight into perspective, by weight only 1/2 of 1% of all freight carried in the UK is carried by air.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of that figure 2/3rds goes through Heathrow the biggest passenger terminal in the UK and 5% is carried in dedicated freighters leaving 95% as bellyhold and by far this is the most popular way of flying in airfreight.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So to the figures</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vD7QUiwsGoumg_sNQEb7ssGJfuM7tidCnyeEXXmFDLVyo4iYGo6TwhOr_w9ZOqItq_OPdNQ4aBCpzoTTirmXUTchTi5XLNf-InusRRHfaAb22uHtYGpmczRAqNB5Pr31vA9oPhoKnTk/s1812/Screenshot+2020-10-03+16.10.29.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="1812" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vD7QUiwsGoumg_sNQEb7ssGJfuM7tidCnyeEXXmFDLVyo4iYGo6TwhOr_w9ZOqItq_OPdNQ4aBCpzoTTirmXUTchTi5XLNf-InusRRHfaAb22uHtYGpmczRAqNB5Pr31vA9oPhoKnTk/w400-h105/Screenshot+2020-10-03+16.10.29.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What you can see from the CAA figures is total freight carried, from all UK reporting airports, is tonnage is down by 25% with Gatwick (-68%), Heathrow (-31%), Luton (-16%) and outside London Manchester is down by 55%.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most notably these are bellyhold dependent airports whilst East Midlands (up 1%) and Stanstead (up 7%) have bucked the trend because they have (mainly) night services dealing with air freighters.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking at reasons for this drop one has to ask is the 25% reduction in airfreight due to lower numbers of passenger flights or due to the recession brought on by Covid. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The answer is most likely the recession as the % of freight carried at the London Centric airports has remained fairly stable. In 2009 this was 77.22%, in 2019 this was 76.36% and in the 8 months of 2020 it has been 73.77%.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two airports that have benefitted have been East Midlands and Stanstead where the overall % of the airfreight carried has increased by 5% and 4% to 18% and 13% respectively.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heathrow has seen its share drop by 4% to 58% and Gatwick has seen its share drop by half to just 1.85%.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u>Conclusion</u></b></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main driver for the 25% reduction in airfreight carried to UK airports in 2020 has not been the lack of passenger aircraft flying long haul rather it is the reduced demand for goods because of the worldwide recession. there has been a drift away from bellyhold but this has only meant a small increase in freighter only aircraft landing at EMA and Stanstead and as passenger numbers start to recover the cost of flying freight in the belly of passenger aircraft will mean the use of freighter only cargo will drop back to pre-covid levels due to the cost savings to be made.</div></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-70491721995686950682020-09-15T13:26:00.005-07:002020-09-15T13:26:39.410-07:00What the DCO means for Freudman<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Report on
Freudmann Tipple International Ltd<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This company was incepted on 19/4/2005 and according to Tony
he had been let go by Planestation in February 2005 5 months before
Planestation collapsed with debts exceeding £25 Million.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony had been appointed a director of London Manston Airport
PLC in 25/7/1997 where he oversaw the day to day running of Manston airport for
Wiggins PLC. He stayed in that role until 28/2/2005. The company has since been
dissolved. Wiggins itself became Planestation PLC and as stated collapsed with
debts. The airport was transferred to Infratil by the receiver in August 2005 for
a sum that was eventually written off.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony also was tasked with buying up disused airfields
abroad. These airfields had in common tracts of land within the boundary that
were suitable for housebuilding which was Wiggin’s main development forte.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From public announcements in 2003<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Company's
preference in developing its network of airports has been to acquire the entire
interest at an airport. Nonetheless where opportunities present themselves the
Company could either take a minority shareholding or an operating concession,
such as that at Melbourne Airport, Florida.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Directors believe
property development at the airports within the Planestation network to be
strategically important. Accordingly the Group focuses on airports which either
have landside areas available as development land or alternatively adjacent
land which may be acquired for development. The Group also focuses on sites
where development funding is expected to be available from outside sources, in
particular grants from Government, the European Union or other public sector
bodies. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In August 1999, the
Company completed its acquisition of London Manston Airport, since which time
it has expanded its portfolio of interests in airports considerably to include
airport services. These airport operations are to be included within the
Planestation brand. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In 2001</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, the Group
acquired the two strategically placed airports in Germany at Schwerin-Parchim
(now Baltic Airport Schwerin-Parchim) and at Lahr, in the Black Forest. It has
also secured interests in the smaller regional airports of Odense, Denmark in
April 2000, and Cuneo in Northern Italy in February 2001. LineAE airport in
Pilsen, Czech Republic was acquired in August 2000. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Most recently the
Group has entered into an agreement to develop international air traffic at
Melbourne airport in Florida.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To finance the initial
projected cash outflows from airport operations and acquisitions the Company
increased its net borrowings primarily through borrowing from the Mezzanine
Lenders.”<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.investegate.co.uk/wiggins-group-plc---230-/rns/issue-of-equity-issue-of-debt/200312101449311006T/">https://www.investegate.co.uk/wiggins-group-plc---230-/rns/issue-of-equity-issue-of-debt/200312101449311006T/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His colleague at LMA Plc Paul Howard Tipple was appointed a
director on 29/7/2003 and resigned on 31/3/2005. Paul’s directorship was short
lived at FT Int Ltd as he resigned on the 4/4/2007 after being a founding
director.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attached at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Appendix
A</b> is Freudmann’s CV however it is unknown as to whether he earnt monies
whilst asset stripping these dissolved companies. All that is known is that
after he left Planestation he set up Freudmann Tipple International Ltd and
each set of accounts is included on this report. FT International’s accounts
are the bare minimum Balance sheet reported to Companies House and to not
include a profit and loss report however the end of year balance sheet seems to
show that annually they carried forward losses to 30/9/2008 then a positive
balance as debts accrued have been paid off. In 2010 to 2012 it remains a
positive then the debts started building again. In the accounts ending March
2013 a “loan” of over £20K is paid to Tony leading to a run of negative results
and by March 2016 this had accrued to -£73101.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This all changed with the formation of Riveroak Operations
and the use of Freudmann Tipple to hold monies for RO and it seems collect payment
for providing services. All debts were wiped off and a positive balance for the
last 3 years. With this change comes a Corporation tax bill shown on the
accounts and assuming a Corp tax rate of 19% Tony’s company has achieved a
pre-tax profit at March 2017 of £154K, at March 2018 of £214K and at March 2019
of £282K.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the same time at year end TF International held RO monies
of £176146, £ 214136 and £282378 respectively. One might ask why an
organisation which has allegedly spent £38M on Manston needs to use Freudmann
Tipple International Ltd to pay their bills.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The accounts such as they are will be found at appendix C<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tipple’s resignation is at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Appendix D<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FOI to KCC at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Appendix
E</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><u style="font-weight: bold;">Appendix A </u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Courtesy of Herne Bay Matters</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>TONY FREUDMANN CV</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1946<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Born Wrexham
North Wales <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1964 – 1967 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LSE
- Law (LLB)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1967 – 1982<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Legal
Practice (Commercial Law). This includes 9 years as a Deputy District Judge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">N.B. The title District Judge did not come in to being until
2000. There were stipendiary Magistrates so whether he was a stipe or not isn’t
clear. His claim to have been a DDJ for 9 years means that when appointed he
would have only had 4 years Post Qualification Experience on appointment. The
requisite for a Stipe as per DDJ was a minimum 7 years PQE and then very
unusual. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1982 – 1989<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shropshire
County Council - Leader <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The info regarding TF's 'early years' comes from various
statements that he has made. However he was apparently working for the
Shrewsbury firm Wace, Morgan & Salt in 1986 as he was dealing with the
probate of one Daphne Newman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1989 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Founded a
consultancy “Advising public authorities on accessing structural funding from
the EU”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1994 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Joins Wiggins
as Senior Vice President (Wiggins is a land management and property development
company formerly Southend Sand & Gravel Co founded in 1948)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1999 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wiggins buy
Kent International Airport Ltd <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Other Wiggin’s airports while Freudmann was responsible for
airport acquisition:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Odense, Denmark - 2000 Local Authority running the airport
enter joint venture with Planestation. Local Authority end agreement
essentially on breach of contract seeking $1.7 m. This was arbitrated down to
$850,000 re unpaid rent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pilsen, Czech Republic - 2000 takes on lease from Czech
MoD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$279 million deal with Bae to
redevelop as commercial airport. This does not seem to have got very far and
the local operating company PlaneStation Pilsen was sold to Babcock Brown on
the demise of the parent company. Eventually in 2013 the MoD terminated the
agreement on basis of breach of contract.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lahr Airport - A history of failure. Sold to Babcock &
Brown when Planestation enter voluntary liquidation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Schwerin Parkim, Northern Germany - Didn’t pay the rent.
Kicked out Feb 2005 and settled for 3 million Euro.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cuneo, Levaldigi, Italy - Take 43% stake in airport 2001.
Withdraw having made heavy losses 2004, despite heavy funding from the Italian
Government to develop the airport.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ajman, UAE - Grand $800 million project to build airport (a
scheme seen in the industry as bizarre) is abandoned in 2003<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Borgond (Alba), Hungary - June 2004 Contracts with local
authority for joint investment. A year later Planestation goes under without
any significant work commencing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Smyrna, USA - June 1999 Announce ambitious proposals for
this joint military / civilian airport which is going to be their corporate HQ.
Withdraw from project 2003 citing issues re the expansion of the runway which
was strongly opposed locally.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Melbourne, Florida USA - June 2004 Sights set on this
airport to replace Smyrna as US base. Deal would involve considerable funding
from local and federal governments. The project is in development when
Planestation go under.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of the above were former or existing military bases,
targeted because “ideal airports are former military bases with ample
availability of surrounding land which can be developed using the real estate
experience of Wiggins”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2004 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Wiggins
Group PLC becomes Planestation PLC <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2005 Feb <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ousted
from Planestation PLC. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Tony Freudmann also had the following to say regarding
personal accusations thrown at him “I was responsible for Manston’s conversion
to a civilian airport, building it up as a cargo airport and then being ‘let
go’ when I protested that the EUJet plan made no economic sense.”” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Martin May was brought in to try and save Planestation. Says
May in Sept 2004: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘When I first arrived here I realised that the commercial
“vision” of the previous management was merely vapour. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“When I came here, we were spending money to no particular
end. Last year, we spent £11 million maintaining dormant airports. The previous
year, £13.5 million. It wasn’t too hard to work out that revenue generation
built on a scalable business model was what was needed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ever the pragmatist, May acknowledges much remains to be
done. ‘I am a sensible businessman. I’m taking one step at a time. The board
here has collective goals and every individual employee here has personal
goals. We are still not profitable but the days when this company was an
acquirer of assets and a stealer of ideas is over. Our target is to be cash
neutral by March next year. I intend to make it.’ “<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2005 Apr<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Founds
Freudmann Tipple International Ltd (He always refers to this as FT
International Ltd. This in fact is a footwear company in Surrey with no
connection to Freudmann). Is this the same Tipple who was CEO at Manston?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2005 July <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Banks
pull the plug on Planestation PLC / EU Jet. Enter Infratil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2007<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FTI
provides consultancy services to Infratil working on a route from Manston to
Norfolk, Virginia. This doesn’t get off the ground.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2009 March<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Becomes
a Director of Active Energy Active Energy Ltd founded as a subsidiary of Steven
Freudmann’s Cinpart. Cinpart having 65% Equity, 10% Alpha Prospects (TF &
SF) with 25% of Equity to Steven Coombs who as SDC Industries manufactures
VoltageMaster Energy saving devices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Sept <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FTI
still trading. KCC pays fees of £4000 for APTC Staff.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Feb <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Founds
SDCI Ltd with Nadav Zohar (Believed to be related to the above energy saving
businesses) No accounts filed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 June<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Working
with Integeral Investments (Directors Sanjeev Joshi & Darin Soards who
appear again in negotiations with Anne Gloag re Manston. One of the Investors
is the notorious Douglas Maggs) Integeral is already insolvent when agreement
reached with the local authorities in Lahr to run the Black Forest Airport,
previously run by Wiggins / Planestation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 Jan <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Integeral
wound up. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 Feb <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>still
representing a now non-existent ‘Integeral’ in negotiations at Lahr.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 June<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Forms
Annax Aviation and Annax Aviation Airports, registering these companies at the
address of former Lahr investor, Douglas Maggs. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 July <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Annax
enters the tendering process to run Lahr. Bid is unsuccessful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 Jan<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>
Makes enquiries re the potential for house building on the Northern Grass at
Manston Airport<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 29 Jan<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>
Annax in negotiation to purchase Manston from Gloag. Heads of Agreement signed.
Falls through. (Likely fronting for Integeral team)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 24 March<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sir
Roger Gale announces that a consortium is desirous to purchase Manston from
Anne Gloag. (Very likely TF and Integeral)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 27 March<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Letter
of Offer made by the consortium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 2 Apr<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Offer
withdrawn by consortium <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 4 May<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Fronts
RiverOak LLC bid to purchase Airport from AG.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 28 May<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Founds
Dublin Registered Company AA Leasing Partners Limited (Aviation leasing,
Aircraft dismantling, parts)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b><u>Travel Industry
Involvement</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the acquisitions were direct whilst others were made
through Alpha Consolidations Ltd and Alpha Prospects PLC. His foray into the
Travel Industry is inextricably linked with his younger brother Steven
Freudmann who has been involved in the travel industry from the founding in
1967 of Majestic Travel. He was a director of ABTA for 18 years and its
President between 1997-2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He resigned
his Directorship after calls to do so from creditors of Seligo / Unpackaged and
rather than face awkward questions from the board re the collapse of and
involvement in, the Unpackaged Group run by Tony and Alpha Prospects (Stevens
baby as well).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony’s first acquisition would seem to have been in March
2007 acquiring Carefree Travel 22/3/07 and Radiant Travel 22/3/07, also Travel
Club of Upminster, (founded in 1936) Upminster Travel, Austria Travel 19/1/09,
Majestic Travel (Steven Freudmann’s company) 6/2/09 and Seligo Holidays
23/2/2009.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Useful summary from Travel Trade Gazette<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Steven
Freudmann is a director of Alpha Prospects, a plc listed on the junior Plus
stock market and set up in 2008 to invest in travel companies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
brother Tony Freudmann was a director of Unpackaged Holidays Ltd of which
Seligo was a trading name.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tony
Freudmann is also a director of The Travel Club, the company which bought the
assets of Unpackaged Holidays.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tony
Freudmann is also a director of Unpackaged’s parent company, UHN Ltd, of which
Alpha Prospects has an option to acquire.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tony
Freudmann is also a director of Seligo Holidays Ltd, which was set up in
February and could now become the trade arm of The Travel Club. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alpha
Prospects also has an option to acquire Alpha Consolidations Ltd, which owns
The Travel Club Ltd.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Net result of TF’s
involvement in Travel Industry was the rapid demise of a number of long
established operators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the
travel companies seems to have survived<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lists of Companies he has been or is currently a Director
of:-<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLpxA_VfTTKwOg8gLrPbDmBQ2penmECImAUGT3a-PRaZowGC3C4roF2-7Bqjol7Vv1f5NQ6Pg7yX9Zq8y7vjH32_eIzurL1RTtMsH7dP7aFUEHQVN-5pSB5ZaG4zR3gmh9h1K5PqtevI/s827/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.34.47.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLpxA_VfTTKwOg8gLrPbDmBQ2penmECImAUGT3a-PRaZowGC3C4roF2-7Bqjol7Vv1f5NQ6Pg7yX9Zq8y7vjH32_eIzurL1RTtMsH7dP7aFUEHQVN-5pSB5ZaG4zR3gmh9h1K5PqtevI/s320/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.34.47.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ3wqlx2gTNSfO5moORgLnZ8OWmscBDy7GDj_rNUherdFEtDaZ0zf6WJSOBVH4OgT1bRnFIVkxLim42nS2xHDxnb92a1OgeLOkI-C5St_GIGJv223tJXlZVGpIBTFKSXhn9XUnrnLXVKg/s786/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ3wqlx2gTNSfO5moORgLnZ8OWmscBDy7GDj_rNUherdFEtDaZ0zf6WJSOBVH4OgT1bRnFIVkxLim42nS2xHDxnb92a1OgeLOkI-C5St_GIGJv223tJXlZVGpIBTFKSXhn9XUnrnLXVKg/s320/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.11.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwnpKlnWFGN1XnIHKtJQTRDWOrDahccp95c3YyfxrA5uPwIftY_XsCHbdCbUnwwPs0dwsNPoUBaJUM6Z_W_kBy8WWwPhiA1efd8vColAi0GMlfP0-1ZYwuSYXOglHZRLBvzaeJDk9CA8/s712/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwnpKlnWFGN1XnIHKtJQTRDWOrDahccp95c3YyfxrA5uPwIftY_XsCHbdCbUnwwPs0dwsNPoUBaJUM6Z_W_kBy8WWwPhiA1efd8vColAi0GMlfP0-1ZYwuSYXOglHZRLBvzaeJDk9CA8/s320/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.22.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CrPTMlkBjQgIGzOPAWrgZ5xDSzqB-a0PEDHcumvLFcNPkv48m2nmoQg4s-QtN3oZomMsFN7WK5xMXuJOzUcsjKAcDpTBGFUZqhi3nqQHIBSZkRKscmAYzmBzl4sIpEJxBj3tiYHJcBA/s727/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.31.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="727" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5CrPTMlkBjQgIGzOPAWrgZ5xDSzqB-a0PEDHcumvLFcNPkv48m2nmoQg4s-QtN3oZomMsFN7WK5xMXuJOzUcsjKAcDpTBGFUZqhi3nqQHIBSZkRKscmAYzmBzl4sIpEJxBj3tiYHJcBA/s320/Screenshot+2019-03-12+18.35.31.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Appendix B<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Planestation: turnaround from hell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Losses of £73
million, an ousted management team and huge overheads are just three of the
factors that have plagued airports and property group Planestation – yet one
entrepreneur is aiming to make the business profitable</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Date: 01 September 2004<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Article: Analysis <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Losses of £73 million, an ousted management team and huge
overheads are just three of the factors that have plagued airports and property
group Planestation – yet one entrepreneur is now aiming to make the business
profitable.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">'I don’t think I’ve got an easy job, that’s for sure,’ is
how Martin May, one of the UK’s foremost turnaround practitioners, describes
the task before him at troubled airports and property group Planestation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To anyone who has a passing knowledge of this group, his
comments will smack of extreme understatement, because, up till now,
Planestation has been one of the most woeful ventures ever to grace the London
Stock Exchange.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over the past ten years the group, previously known as
Wiggins, has raised more money – north of around £115 million – than its actual
market valuation. With this cash it built up an international chain of seven
(hitherto largely dormant) airports and an assortment of property interests and
assets in the UK. Apart from property disposals, it has generated little in the
way of revenues, milked its investor base for all they were worth and produced
gargantuan annual losses – in the past 48 months alone it has lost more than
£73 million.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The group was only saved from complete collapse at the turn
of the year when no less than £46 million was raised from City institutions to
repay an almost equal amount of mezzanine finance that was accruing interest at
28 per cent (yes, we’re not lying, twenty-eight per cent!). After this
fundraising, chief executive Oliver Iny walked the plank. He was shortly
followed by the chairman, Richard Bernays and non-executive director Lady Rona
Delves Broughton.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Knowledge is
strength<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even for May, who has engineered a few spectacular
turnarounds over the past ten years, transforming Planestation into a proper
business represents something of a special task. But he exudes charm and calm
in equal measure and says he is ‘excited’, not perturbed, by the challenge
ahead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘I know my strengths and weaknesses, as all chief executives
should. I am not good at business development, I am not a specialist in any
particular sector. What I am good at is fixing things.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fixing things is indeed his forte. Since leaving a global
packaging specialist in the late 90s May has worked wonders at a very diverse
selection of companies. Among his most successful commercial reinventions has
been Gresham Computing, where he transformed the loss-making, indebted venture
into a profitable re-financed concern within six months. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His most recent project has been Cape, where he is still
chairman. He joined in June 2002 after it had leaked so much cash its shares
had bombed and debts were topping £50 million. Now, it is trading profitably,
its debts are negligible and, in response, the shares have soared tenfold.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>A meticulous
12-month plan<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Says May, ‘in distressed business you meet many similar
problems. There are always immediate cash concerns, the incumbent management
are very often “blockers” of change, margins are weak and staff morale is
non-existent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">’When I come on board I engender a 12-month time- and
task-orientated plan to get the ship afloat. It’s about real business goals,
revenue generation and management inspiration.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For May, the first quarter in his standard recovery plan is
all about ‘stopping unnecessary spending immediately’. He also identifies
non-core assets that can be off-loaded for much needed cash.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next three months is then about establishing ‘short-term
corporate and financial goals’ to ensure that by the third quarter ‘management
changes are in place and a temporary platform built to start developing a
viable future strategy’. The last three months of his first year is then
devoted to ‘really making a step change to take the business forward’.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Hard medicine<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first six months at Planestation have, by and large,
followed this philosophy to the letter. ‘When I first arrived here I realised
that the commercial “vision” of the previous management was merely vapour. Like
many failing concerns, it was truly a lifestyle business. It was full of
hobbies.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To reinforce the point he highlights the fact that annual
head office costs were no less than £7.8 million. This figure included the
£600,000 it cost to lease Planestation’s wonderfully indulgent Georgian offices
on London’s grandiose Berkeley Square. Head office costs have been slashed and
the group has relocated to a small space at the back of the building. The rest
is being sub-let.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another ‘pet project’ he put to the sword was the previous
management’s hare-brained attempt to build a 1.4-mile-long grandstand (designed
by leading signature architect Lord Foster) at its property site in East
London. This was part of its overall plan to build a ‘London City Racecourse’.
Says May, ‘A total of £2.8 million was spent on this design, which,
unsurprisingly, failed to get planning permission.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Beyond
cost-cutting<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the finance front, a £5 million cash injection was
completed recently, with most of the new investors being tempted in by May’s
new realism and much progress has been made on the actual business.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of the group’s seven airports, three have been designated
core and revenues are at last beginning to tumble in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At Kent International, Planestation’s flagship asset,
passenger services are finally up and running following the launch of Europe’s
newest airline, EUJet. Planestation invested £2 million for a 30 per cent stake
in this airline. Two planes are operating, and the plan is to have seven on the
go by next year. The other major development at this site was the final
completion of a Border Inspection Post (one of only eight in the UK). This, it
is hoped, will become a serious destination for those shipping fresh produce and
other cargo into the UK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the group’s Lahr airport in Germany’s Black Forest,
charter flights are landing and taking off and plans are afoot to increase
cargo capacity. Over in the US, Planestation’s plans to take holiday-makers
from the UK and Europe to Florida are developing rapidly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Property solutions<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As for its property division, May is in negotiations to sell
the group’s residential property interests in Liverpool. Many now reckon that
due to his patience, he is likely to reel in more than the £9 million
previously mooted by analysts. In Oxfordshire, a future residential development
is at the planning stage and in East London, a revised (and more sensible)
proposal for a racetrack has been resubmitted. £30 million, say commentators,
is what could be raised over the short- to medium-term from three-to-four
sites.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Says May, ‘When I came here, we were spending money to no
particular end. Last year, we spent £11 million maintaining dormant airports.
The previous year, £13.5 million. It wasn’t too hard to work out that revenue
generation built on a scalable business model was what was needed.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ever the pragmatist, May acknowledges much remains to be
done. ‘I am a sensible businessman. I’m taking one step at a time. The board
here has collective goals and every individual employee here has personal
goals. We are still not profitable but the days when this company was an
acquirer of assets and a stealer of ideas is over. Our target is to be cash
neutral by March next year. I intend to make it.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-entrepreneur/be-an-entrepreneur/198/planestation-turnaround-from-hell.thtml">http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-entrepreneur/be-an-entrepreneur/198/planestation-turnaround-from-hell.thtml</a></span>
(editor’s note: This link no longer active)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Appendix C<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4mY7fRCWWwbN08nt0ozKoxASWzaZDgMV4c3SN8SSNbZfwFDW2rHZRqJP8YA4zSo6NdLDFe6RguXwlQdILRWAMk2oIuWBT1awStlYY519xNkqdnaC9SJSznaZy5iF8NZwrPX5zsKDSGA/s1410/accounts+summary.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="1410" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4mY7fRCWWwbN08nt0ozKoxASWzaZDgMV4c3SN8SSNbZfwFDW2rHZRqJP8YA4zSo6NdLDFe6RguXwlQdILRWAMk2oIuWBT1awStlYY519xNkqdnaC9SJSznaZy5iF8NZwrPX5zsKDSGA/w534-h173/accounts+summary.png" width="534" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Appendix D<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTDPZcFOUiyyIuHRGc8LBjp_ojuxSFBd7zHZN-hMgr5C31MswlwMmHTiXvy0cLaGxU1Hnrke0oBh3oaQvHvsM774nEkK_Y0Bxd8sR1WK-AdSSOpDBPVCutuKMlYjm97Cl_JU9zkFnB-NQ/s861/Tipple+resignation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="861" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTDPZcFOUiyyIuHRGc8LBjp_ojuxSFBd7zHZN-hMgr5C31MswlwMmHTiXvy0cLaGxU1Hnrke0oBh3oaQvHvsM774nEkK_Y0Bxd8sR1WK-AdSSOpDBPVCutuKMlYjm97Cl_JU9zkFnB-NQ/s320/Tipple+resignation.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Appendix E<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Kent County Council,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tony Freudmann was paid by Kent County Council for his
consultancy work on Manston Airport on the following dates<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Invoice Amount Date<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/3 £11,456.25 24/10/2005<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/6 £9,106.25 04/01/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/9 £5,245.63 12/03/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/10 £6,102.69 09/04/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/15 £4,626.56 14/08/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/2 £29,081.25 09/09/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/16 £6,431.75 05/10/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/17 £7,635.26 01/11/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/50 £5,299.43 06/12/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/19 £14,633.24 08/12/2006<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/26 £7,887.74 03/01/2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/25 £17,379.59 07/02/2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/29 £9,944.19 11/03/2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/37 £4,800.00 01/07/2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/1 £6,462.50 01/08/2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/58 £12,126.00 17/05/2008<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/68 £6,049.40 23/09/2008<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">· 101/82 £11,646.00 13/02/2009<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Could I have copies of any reports associated with these
payments or any other relevant correspondence associated with them<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yours faithfully,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Totals £176K<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">KCC’s response<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_z81TpWkV8-vt14_afQ8k7mG8HaCHKYHwq5yNEI965HUyO0eLVjcgmnGUx2A4smNHeXmawJon3lAuJ5eA4BhT9MLUl0ejhQrCxgeVuumZzzGAUTP3706UXsy42HXt6eri22-CpfBFzE/s867/KCC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="766" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_z81TpWkV8-vt14_afQ8k7mG8HaCHKYHwq5yNEI965HUyO0eLVjcgmnGUx2A4smNHeXmawJon3lAuJ5eA4BhT9MLUl0ejhQrCxgeVuumZzzGAUTP3706UXsy42HXt6eri22-CpfBFzE/w372-h421/KCC.png" width="372" /></a></div>So in conclusion after a working life which has got precisely nowhere with many thwarted plans it would seem someone is looking at a retirement plan.<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-13893041453056937822020-09-02T11:39:00.001-07:002020-09-02T11:39:30.568-07:00Statistics, more statistics and polls<p>Much is being made of the local support for Manston Airport by the people who want the airport back however to back up their claims they are relying on Facebook polls conducted on groups who support the airport creating their own inbuilt bias. </p><p>The only recognised polling company in recent times who have conducted a poll are MORI and I will be discussing the findings in this blogpost.</p><p>First thing to say is the poll was conducted between March/April 2005 and just 500 telephone calls were made out of a population of 130,000 residents. Mori state the following:</p><p>"<i>A representative sample of 500 Thanet residents was interviewed by telephone. Quotas were set on age, sex and work status to reflect the known status of the area as recorded in the 2001 census. Because the sampling methodology involves making a ‘1 in n’ selection from a full list of domestic telephone numbers (digits from which have already been randomised to take account of ex-directory numbers), each household has the same chance of selection for interview. As there are more households in urban and suburban areas, more interviews will take place in areas in which population density is higher</i>"</p><p>and further</p><p>"<i>It is important to note at this early stage that we place greater emphasis on the results from the telephone survey. This exercise is scientifically sampled and is not as prone to self-selection on the part of respondents or bias caused by nonresponse as is the self-completion consultation questionnaire. A table is appended which shows the overall population profile for Thanet, the respondent profile for the telephone survey, as well as a respondent profile for the consultation questionnaires. Given that the respondent profiles are so different, it is inadvisable to make comparisons between the two</i>."</p><p>Further they were given postcodes by TDC to identify those under the flightpath as follows:</p><p>"<i>We also run sub-group analysis on residents living under the flight path and those living away from it. The flight path is defined as postal districts CT7, CT11 and CT12. All other postal sectors fall outside of the flight path.</i>"</p><p>CT7 covers Birchington, CT12 Minster and Manston and CT11 much of Ramsgate.</p><p>It is also important to remember at the time of the poll Manston was still a going concern having in 1998 been bought from the Ministry of Defence by the Wiggins group and had recently changed their name to Planestation. Within 3 months of this poll both EUjet and Planestation had collapsed with debts exceeding £25M.</p><p>The poll was commissioned by TDC for the express need of revising the written agreement (S106) as the existing one was considered too "woolly" and allowed the airport operators to ignore the rules on Night Flights, Noise and environmental risks.</p><p>Firstly the Poll tries to understand, of the 500 respondents, just how much they actually used the airport for holidays and business travel. This is the response.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJFdTY6NysfRfU-WbfadCoArLSjydxP0meiYEahKM3QuU6K70W67luY74xUUvdVtAsDboLRu98Ikmjid4-BB0NlgT5s2pbBM4SX1yZV_JE20diw8x0QnySnLRww70rT-R6J0Qt9FrQLc/s859/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.10.58.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="859" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJFdTY6NysfRfU-WbfadCoArLSjydxP0meiYEahKM3QuU6K70W67luY74xUUvdVtAsDboLRu98Ikmjid4-BB0NlgT5s2pbBM4SX1yZV_JE20diw8x0QnySnLRww70rT-R6J0Qt9FrQLc/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.10.58.png" width="640" /></a></div><b>From this it is clear that few actually use it for flights and remember in 2005 EUjet are offering holiday flights to 16 holiday destinations in Fokker 100 aircraft.</b><div>So if so few use the airport the question is why?, and what does that mean for the current plans by RSP. Remember in 2005 130000 people live in Thanet which means 3/4 don't use it.</div><div><br /></div><div>So how many are aware of Planestation's plans to expand services?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuqI6YnxxAfpMPqBsQwpNzwjjVoMYzWYYHnCFB7330wEKnX-nhk8DttWk11k-ydg1Rlo3S7xP8ud_7NF2Sm3SGcKhRAmiTWqIoUUhPnMU0Mx_5-g8GmXQgH2z3v3oqLLu2VcbIijKzhY/s785/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.06.22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="785" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuqI6YnxxAfpMPqBsQwpNzwjjVoMYzWYYHnCFB7330wEKnX-nhk8DttWk11k-ydg1Rlo3S7xP8ud_7NF2Sm3SGcKhRAmiTWqIoUUhPnMU0Mx_5-g8GmXQgH2z3v3oqLLu2VcbIijKzhY/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.06.22.png" width="640" /></a></div>This first graph shows that 80% of the 500 knew something about the plans, some more than others however few knew about the legal protections that a S106 brought to curb the excesses of the airport management.<div><br /></div><div>When those who did know about the plans were asked a further question as to whether they support or oppose this is the response </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9RW6JD7isD2zNHg_fKykjBvBmzK348hzo2DHQwE2ziXkxTDv2DMnDMOSw5vCZXooos5SKl3efpHxYmqIY0V5SkWd-ckZPx8_t6d8vNbCnAh4qAwTrpyZmkJmp6C3OsaJEi8YVu2uTcB8/s791/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.06.08.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="759" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9RW6JD7isD2zNHg_fKykjBvBmzK348hzo2DHQwE2ziXkxTDv2DMnDMOSw5vCZXooos5SKl3efpHxYmqIY0V5SkWd-ckZPx8_t6d8vNbCnAh4qAwTrpyZmkJmp6C3OsaJEi8YVu2uTcB8/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.06.08.png" /></a></div><br /><div>So remembering only 400 knew about the plans 85% of this 400 tend to or are strongly supportive of the plans. This means of the overall 500 68% (340) indicate support. The reasons they gave for their support was broken down into the following areas:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3Hsn7DwiD5gJWrjjMQqCwAhyVq1wXeP1safKuXqEY0dV6JZ0PvHRFf4Au3Rvu58ybNPjtHmug9Fcn5wIPfJCTa_clocGsTKQnuw6jyXeXGpWAiUpFNiqLajLknbLASvgShXm4RQDSHU/s788/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.07.20.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="690" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3Hsn7DwiD5gJWrjjMQqCwAhyVq1wXeP1safKuXqEY0dV6JZ0PvHRFf4Au3Rvu58ybNPjtHmug9Fcn5wIPfJCTa_clocGsTKQnuw6jyXeXGpWAiUpFNiqLajLknbLASvgShXm4RQDSHU/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.07.20.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-vv_mA9rNHq-uc_l70uMQLbik6zkY9KMh5SE5D6pNgQh8xNfox4-3a3n5F2le4khcicyC-QNIDP29ZTTNMAHLmsUQS0Q3So27iKPkwzed3f-2VRED3YSu2itLvgDCWhMrGtUtCBsJlg/s993/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.08.50.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="993" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-vv_mA9rNHq-uc_l70uMQLbik6zkY9KMh5SE5D6pNgQh8xNfox4-3a3n5F2le4khcicyC-QNIDP29ZTTNMAHLmsUQS0Q3So27iKPkwzed3f-2VRED3YSu2itLvgDCWhMrGtUtCBsJlg/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.08.50.png" width="640" /></a></div>Employment prospects turn out to be the most popular reason cited, however as an indicator this seems even today to be a reason but this very seldom turns out to be true. Even though Planestation collapsed the new company Infratil never managed to create a job bonanza and when it finally collapsed in 2014 only 144 people were made redundant. Even the Examination inspectors stated in their comprehensive report that jobs were being overstated. Their final conclusion was:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG70ZjPqyPxYzpbiaeAww1ndUmReQqlBtTr95R3C1Xh7MhsvHE-OCy4Pqu2QgoXvpvVJJCKl92eRy3ZJwQQSe882e0xo-48-ufLkukGCaOQVUqudQSpx9tXUU3-7r_ctIGUrAgMsXz3hM/s855/Jobs4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="855" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG70ZjPqyPxYzpbiaeAww1ndUmReQqlBtTr95R3C1Xh7MhsvHE-OCy4Pqu2QgoXvpvVJJCKl92eRy3ZJwQQSe882e0xo-48-ufLkukGCaOQVUqudQSpx9tXUU3-7r_ctIGUrAgMsXz3hM/w640-h120/Jobs4.png" width="640" /></a></div>To continue the reasons for opposing the expansion were as follows:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhyb2UZFvHdJDJt_4pRUQbotiUGq2zbXiTaeFW76l6PMIV95s1ZIk6uoqDMdOaqmHm1uG0bijMbMYzJlQVJUyoSMAWtIe4awWirRHrqCIrGs9zi82kKn9aRQdxKq1H5fDI9noqmwEmG8/s1036/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.09.16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1036" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhyb2UZFvHdJDJt_4pRUQbotiUGq2zbXiTaeFW76l6PMIV95s1ZIk6uoqDMdOaqmHm1uG0bijMbMYzJlQVJUyoSMAWtIe4awWirRHrqCIrGs9zi82kKn9aRQdxKq1H5fDI9noqmwEmG8/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.09.16.png" width="640" /></a></div>The Poll asked the respondents about their quality of life in Thanet and what was important to them:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq5W_hIyOafXjQ2jiWafUwPncZp0qIHrN4air53xRLY5xEEWlY5989nu4AaumrLB9QFzkkDRthsunJBfPT96O-TK4bw9ap4KJqLCwUo9ZyLpl8Lzd7zOirRyTkFGeFxNOpmcL9arYov3E/s1040/Screenshot+2020-09-02+17.31.24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq5W_hIyOafXjQ2jiWafUwPncZp0qIHrN4air53xRLY5xEEWlY5989nu4AaumrLB9QFzkkDRthsunJBfPT96O-TK4bw9ap4KJqLCwUo9ZyLpl8Lzd7zOirRyTkFGeFxNOpmcL9arYov3E/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+17.31.24.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd5sbXIbox9NKfVasTTKOyWbzqpMPWEFMtSOH-QA9USwbjA1NQGl3dvUZEg7UYdccuR4CzorSvY6bMddf3QAVwXNu53Q9InzO6sf0JDMkDoJMUa7z31NbN-CAgJ_6GVIRDUM5T6fFrAaQ/s871/Screenshot+2020-09-02+13.01.26.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="824" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd5sbXIbox9NKfVasTTKOyWbzqpMPWEFMtSOH-QA9USwbjA1NQGl3dvUZEg7UYdccuR4CzorSvY6bMddf3QAVwXNu53Q9InzO6sf0JDMkDoJMUa7z31NbN-CAgJ_6GVIRDUM5T6fFrAaQ/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+13.01.26.png" /></a></div>Clearly only 8% of the 500 though being close to an airport was important which closely mirrors the 75% who don't even use the airport. Clearly Facebook polls that have been conducted online attract a different grouping than a telephone poll and shows in the wider community people aren't as excised about the airport than those who engage do. The issue for the airport operator is that without the local catchment area an airport on the North Kent coast miles from London will always fail no matter how much money you pump into it. This might also indicate why Tony Freudmann (RSP Director and previous MD at Planestation) stated "passengers were the death of Manston".<div><br /></div><div><div>A wider consultation exercise was also undertaken by Thanet District Council. Postal self-completion questionnaires were sent out as inserts in “Thanet Matters”, copies of which were delivered to every household in the District Council area. The same questionnaire was also placed on the Thanet District</div><div>Council website. In total, 2,134 postal questionnaires were completed, and 206 questionnaires were completed online between February and June 2005. These wider consultations attracted the more energised respondents and their responses differed from the Telephone survey. What they thought the problems were are different:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURybWL7r3ljMui_kRfuc3hsIowljQ5fIjXY-RGI9rmANUy7OXqyTYyJ68Sb-gp0nLNuhHSZutdZCtdVhqVGi5kvbshg45ZqEl76hsR-hA-ELksuwN1S5ww-2TCG0b42uKVWwqCJ2ue7E/s817/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.03.48.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="817" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURybWL7r3ljMui_kRfuc3hsIowljQ5fIjXY-RGI9rmANUy7OXqyTYyJ68Sb-gp0nLNuhHSZutdZCtdVhqVGi5kvbshg45ZqEl76hsR-hA-ELksuwN1S5ww-2TCG0b42uKVWwqCJ2ue7E/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.03.48.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYo0F5sj2Q3-g0zL0qrvI9SLtQ5D6mnAKk5oarI-M28maD2eBaDTYKkv8mldE892-yCGHtiF9ysqIqOdkCP5a1Tyc6idKyZ9cTlwYN1TScmDucCW0fPK_s3uNamf-LclUNW2w-XQ_tPYE/s951/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.09.38.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="951" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYo0F5sj2Q3-g0zL0qrvI9SLtQ5D6mnAKk5oarI-M28maD2eBaDTYKkv8mldE892-yCGHtiF9ysqIqOdkCP5a1Tyc6idKyZ9cTlwYN1TScmDucCW0fPK_s3uNamf-LclUNW2w-XQ_tPYE/s640/Screenshot+2020-09-02+18.09.38.png" width="640" /></a></div>The full 68 page report is available however reading it it becomes apparent that the reasons given for the support for expansion "Jobs" has been oversold by almost all airports in the UK when they want to expand and in Manston's case this has been exposed because of 20 years of overselling by the airport operators. It is unsurprising that people crave improving employment prospects especially for the young in Thanet but as history has shown Manston dreams are a cruel joke.God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-31463752844269609132020-07-30T10:01:00.002-07:002020-07-30T11:16:40.048-07:00Five Big OnesTony Freudmann's latest foray into the land of propaganda seems to have been prompted by adverse comments because more than just the faithful have now been shown the extent of the noise and disruption coming their way.<div>He has published on RSP's website the following page. View it <a href="https://rsp.co.uk/news/flights-in-and-out-of-manston/" target="_blank">here</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I have published the web page which is viewable at the bottom of the blog however what follows is a detailed investigation of the statements</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0hyphenhyphen425RtyKkLL2Bn-LuxM2WCD6p-s4DyXjCCbMDmpXFcueU4I50n_ZBn9IfD18KPMs5IAvMX2UT0uG-ubFGBow0a7YDWfr58SOV1kCixJ4YzTNRuDgQgY61FV6myhWEUx3_XUILrfSM/s1169/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="1169" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0hyphenhyphen425RtyKkLL2Bn-LuxM2WCD6p-s4DyXjCCbMDmpXFcueU4I50n_ZBn9IfD18KPMs5IAvMX2UT0uG-ubFGBow0a7YDWfr58SOV1kCixJ4YzTNRuDgQgY61FV6myhWEUx3_XUILrfSM/w500-h93/1.png" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The art of misdirection is strong in this one so lets take it as it is stated. </div><div><b>"Even when it is operating at its peak (circa twenty years after reopening)"</b></div><div>Well that's ok then except Tony has no idea when or even if the fixed capacity as laid down in the DCO (17170 cargo ATMs + 9298 passenger ATMs + 38000 General Aviation ATMs = 64468 ATMs which is one aircraft movement every 6 minutes assuming the airport is even successful which isn't guaranteed.</div><div><br /></div><div>However what is clear from the statement is Tony is prepared to inflict future noise and disturbance on Thanet children simply because he doesn't care one bit.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>"Manston Airport will average no more than five large aircraft movements per hour"</b></div><div>So that's all right then? What Ramsgate residents have been used to since 1990, when Manston became Kent International Airport is in the chart below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrBFJxJhrnuNLkWby7Abo3UWRj6-upqZleVA2WODfAU6tJnbC4pjnpBugUQGstP7pu0y_AyTGnNTO_qD0VTwOUPPSK-bVcNR8KAgWzXpJ1Oevv25fERfXj76rTpn-oiTflnHOa4Z_J4U/s830/Screenshot+2020-07-17+21.56.52.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="830" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrBFJxJhrnuNLkWby7Abo3UWRj6-upqZleVA2WODfAU6tJnbC4pjnpBugUQGstP7pu0y_AyTGnNTO_qD0VTwOUPPSK-bVcNR8KAgWzXpJ1Oevv25fERfXj76rTpn-oiTflnHOa4Z_J4U/w400-h371/Screenshot+2020-07-17+21.56.52.png" width="400" /></a></div><div>Clearly this shows that Manston very seldom had more than 1 flight a DAY now Tony want to inflict 5 movements an hour for 17 hours a day every day 365 days a year.</div><div><i><b>As an aside all other airports treat night time as 11PM to 7AM but not Tony.</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>"and will not operate any scheduled services overnight"</b></div><div>The reader will note the use of the word "scheduled" in use here however in the world of Cargo flights the word scheduled is seldom used as the vast majority of cargo flights are not scheduled like most passenger flights. Rather cargo flights into the UK are either belly hold passenger flights (95% of long haul passenger flights have belly hold cargo travelling into Heathrow which by volume is the largest cargo airport with 67% of all cargo into the UK) or they are chartered (non-scheduled) cargo flights arranged on an ad hoc basis when the aircraft can travel full.</div><div><br /></div><div>An example of this in Manston's history is the African harvest <span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">where the customer determines the times the cargo is ready to be flown and the airport grants a sl</span></span><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ot based on take off and flight time. An example would be cash crops from Africa centrally collected and loaded into an aircraft chartered to fly to the destination when fully loaded</span></span></span></div><div>Even Sir Roger Gale understands this when he wrote in 2001 when his buddy ran Manston.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVC6rEvBE9olh_w0wRUr3QqUdxyS7OUuEk74gr-ADOUN8FEh-lPvwIOZSxTy4oScEd3yPS7KZe_sgOQQVQONooHVuDMObZefhFMZatBWbY7OONzVPAPyzjHBwB0B6McgfC6fAsvFLVHo/s677/Gale+NF+september+2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="677" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVC6rEvBE9olh_w0wRUr3QqUdxyS7OUuEk74gr-ADOUN8FEh-lPvwIOZSxTy4oScEd3yPS7KZe_sgOQQVQONooHVuDMObZefhFMZatBWbY7OONzVPAPyzjHBwB0B6McgfC6fAsvFLVHo/w500-h55/Gale+NF+september+2001.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mMj6Lu7v-2DsB4HlZkp42-gkL4FhFewQb2bKoYxIKpaoraOYXNZnL95sjR8ByY5mYtKhhxy_T1_pTZ3vohRoXGqIE4thn5K_7oym1DrGvdZYLMqi5UigS3wlZGx4tjnWLMXVQckXh4/s1182/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="1182" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mMj6Lu7v-2DsB4HlZkp42-gkL4FhFewQb2bKoYxIKpaoraOYXNZnL95sjR8ByY5mYtKhhxy_T1_pTZ3vohRoXGqIE4thn5K_7oym1DrGvdZYLMqi5UigS3wlZGx4tjnWLMXVQckXh4/w625-h70/2.png" width="625" /></a></div><div>The DCO sets out the maximum capacity for aircraft movements however what the DCO doesn't do is set out the punishments for any abuses such as Night Flights which are monitored by the airport itself.</div><div>Careful to tug the heartstrings people ought to remember the British airways training flights which would also come under GA but were large aircraft going round and round for hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAE4NVUihjhAbl7bLXyV-Si_4w2bTIyj1Keu5ts8Me_RoIc8-kYC9AoSEL0j3U_Qips9t-DcE0mFxE9-mZpLZBCvbHr1ZARy-LAdhmSoDUBAC9vVzGyDHR1TjijcH9DPARTpcwRnq7bs/s1212/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1212" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAE4NVUihjhAbl7bLXyV-Si_4w2bTIyj1Keu5ts8Me_RoIc8-kYC9AoSEL0j3U_Qips9t-DcE0mFxE9-mZpLZBCvbHr1ZARy-LAdhmSoDUBAC9vVzGyDHR1TjijcH9DPARTpcwRnq7bs/w500-h174/3.png" width="500" /></a></div><div>Clearly 64458 ATMs is one movement every 6 minutes</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mO5-1Jtzfbt72TaOg-SMFHnT4txQOItr2IR5hwbItYUVUF6wnFnW6Q58qd4nKT0OWc8gig8MINUKPjSMQhOa7qVTgO6yXtauNCV9F9QLx4SJfa4afJydwsLtlHo8HXVY78clPPvVOBE/s1155/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="77" data-original-width="1155" height="41" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mO5-1Jtzfbt72TaOg-SMFHnT4txQOItr2IR5hwbItYUVUF6wnFnW6Q58qd4nKT0OWc8gig8MINUKPjSMQhOa7qVTgO6yXtauNCV9F9QLx4SJfa4afJydwsLtlHo8HXVY78clPPvVOBE/w625-h41/4.png" width="625" /></a></div><div>"minimal impact" what an aircraft movement every 6 minutes including large cargo and passenger aircraft movements every 12 minutes (5 movements an hour 17 hours a day 365 days a week)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQHfmy_oqsIWGxzzQ0CivHm1ubQOv3OZnx68Kvtzq97stML8uQ_wqdabn_gTOrFFjTYKGLjI2IcBQx4C_6pQtb0I5twoY8yaOLEWVPoRqRSvoQHmEeKA6J7g2j2npLcng7hn4ZKRhBsk/s1231/5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="1231" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQHfmy_oqsIWGxzzQ0CivHm1ubQOv3OZnx68Kvtzq97stML8uQ_wqdabn_gTOrFFjTYKGLjI2IcBQx4C_6pQtb0I5twoY8yaOLEWVPoRqRSvoQHmEeKA6J7g2j2npLcng7hn4ZKRhBsk/w500-h79/5.png" width="500" /></a></div><div>"The numbers are very small" yeah right compared to what? Heathrow, Gatwick, or New York.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVh13Bjqof6impXZW87ySYYZ6VSHET6x1lsBHxkNo87VlirA8pw8I1WlKKVy5BMYyueQ2mxqTj-cFsbhl1uQ6vh_eVLZbzYHlhz15FlI_pni6ZV-wRWKVy-jsEliUCI4w5NpzIC5g1W8/s1214/FAQ1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="1214" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVh13Bjqof6impXZW87ySYYZ6VSHET6x1lsBHxkNo87VlirA8pw8I1WlKKVy5BMYyueQ2mxqTj-cFsbhl1uQ6vh_eVLZbzYHlhz15FlI_pni6ZV-wRWKVy-jsEliUCI4w5NpzIC5g1W8/w625-h68/FAQ1.png" width="625" /></a></div><div>Again to repeat the comment above Cargo seldom is scheduled. Most Cargo is chartered and will not fall foul of the restrictions laid out by the DCO, in fact there could be unlimited Night flights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdaf-rwS-ZbvrHer_Tm6hX9cH29BT_7eSC0VjTo4SuTe-8-o5P6GqY3AVsiZ4-U1OrTt9aHkr7__4GcrbXhT00rUX8pj6lkyQK5Z-if9MkqCM1SbzQDJ6rAubX0XNsXG7MZcVW9wLwLo/s1197/FAQ2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="1197" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdaf-rwS-ZbvrHer_Tm6hX9cH29BT_7eSC0VjTo4SuTe-8-o5P6GqY3AVsiZ4-U1OrTt9aHkr7__4GcrbXhT00rUX8pj6lkyQK5Z-if9MkqCM1SbzQDJ6rAubX0XNsXG7MZcVW9wLwLo/w500-h63/FAQ2.png" width="500" /></a></div><div>Interesting that Tony creates a FAQ confirming that they will be so inefficient in unloading an aircraft will take all day to get unloaded. An aircraft doesn't make any money when sitting on the ground, its money is made when it is carrying cargo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RF38G1t_MVlumX1mmXsL_yXWSwRsecvcQ6C-KKz0uaDbTrYaZT0UF7O34oA4WhBxq_zu-7xJPCj1I46yvCGk-ObgMGYJqLHGFdiMfVArz6IVjpPMYYh0PpgCGeK_pKB2kdMHhHO271c/s1185/FAQ3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="1185" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RF38G1t_MVlumX1mmXsL_yXWSwRsecvcQ6C-KKz0uaDbTrYaZT0UF7O34oA4WhBxq_zu-7xJPCj1I46yvCGk-ObgMGYJqLHGFdiMfVArz6IVjpPMYYh0PpgCGeK_pKB2kdMHhHO271c/w500-h76/FAQ3.png" width="500" /></a></div><div>However the DCO places no restrictions on chartered cargo flights both day and night</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQ1Edct0qiDzxU7OSKNSrb1cCiulGIvvJUjozPlfOEP9W9tIixOvaqz0pfEv0WLIq76q75-v3hwHFTOoDINHG10h-YGELAFFjmC3LfaDroEfaWau-oTE4hPcR4-Jq6GEALhZzYUj8ZXQ/s1156/FAQ4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="1156" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQ1Edct0qiDzxU7OSKNSrb1cCiulGIvvJUjozPlfOEP9W9tIixOvaqz0pfEv0WLIq76q75-v3hwHFTOoDINHG10h-YGELAFFjmC3LfaDroEfaWau-oTE4hPcR4-Jq6GEALhZzYUj8ZXQ/w500-h110/FAQ4.png" width="500" /></a></div><div>A nicely swerved answer however most airports impose fines on aircraft that breach the rules especially when it comes to noise and night time disturbance. <b>The Manston DCO is remiss in that it imposes no fines at all.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Finally a word on how Manston will be operated and these are from the RSP application itself . Clearly if Tony was serious about no flights after 11pm then he would arrange for any "late" running flights to be diverted to an airport that had 24 hour operations however that has never been his intention. The 4 main airport operations needed for landing and take off are Air Traffic control, Fire and Rescue, Airport security, and Operations</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWby7_4R40HYEdfDtuhDD97mWW2yZ0opxkF3egQ3rRKgDR7ffXf_-2t_x4AwWRL1zfX0J0YoB3UXudw66V622bbq0GNalIj-ZFAvG8QdmahZwip7ljpqLDlwnt6NLsNrJIgwTNlfZKkM/s1236/Airtraffic+control.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1236" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWby7_4R40HYEdfDtuhDD97mWW2yZ0opxkF3egQ3rRKgDR7ffXf_-2t_x4AwWRL1zfX0J0YoB3UXudw66V622bbq0GNalIj-ZFAvG8QdmahZwip7ljpqLDlwnt6NLsNrJIgwTNlfZKkM/w500-h198/Airtraffic+control.png" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKPkIIV2J4T91XGfETVa72-ibrN6P2lReZ98yd0BJbc0oZiVBGg7O_ApkVTkfM-JUh5kyvMgaw6sjRx6bk0XibBt_V5Jfn4ib2aH4p0YUizBArp1dapZy9bED4SG54k9oNLkOLqhQfLk/s1147/Fire+and+rescue.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePd0zLaHP7vtlbdaE6U617ZPDV5lEWL8c4RP1ReDAT4dDbzFSN8-uIdx7dnAcAxFgGhRQZxj3mrWIxZfzr6KlNci0oRu9D9dC02ZcdnB02gP6iQrnhzP3zYnx4vjuD0Fst6atFkkpo44/s1230/FAQ.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1230" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePd0zLaHP7vtlbdaE6U617ZPDV5lEWL8c4RP1ReDAT4dDbzFSN8-uIdx7dnAcAxFgGhRQZxj3mrWIxZfzr6KlNci0oRu9D9dC02ZcdnB02gP6iQrnhzP3zYnx4vjuD0Fst6atFkkpo44/w500-h319/FAQ.png" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-6553417816465819232020-07-29T10:47:00.001-07:002020-07-29T10:47:43.405-07:00Memory and noise<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b><font size="6">Memory and Noise</font></b></u></div><div><br /></div><div>"<i>Manston Airport has been there for over 100 years"</i></div><div><i>"I remember the United States Airforce and their noise never bothered me"</i></div><div><i>"Its always been there and it didn't bother me"</i></div><div><i>"it only takes 30 seconds to fly over, never bothered me</i>"</div><div><br /></div><div>We have heard these and more for 6 years from the pro lobby however none can actually say just why it never bothered them, yet those that live under the Heathrow flightpath have complained for years about the noise and pollution from planes flying into Heathrow.</div><div>Even <b>Sir Roger Gale</b> spoke in the House of Commons about the effect on his own daughter who lives in Chiswick (a distance from the runway):-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> “I<i> am not remotely unsympathetic to the concerns expressed by colleagues representing seats in west and south London. My daughter has a home in Chiswick under the flightpath to Heathrow. I am a sufficiently infrequent overnight stayer not to have become acclimatised to the air traffic, so I understand what it means, and I also have considerable concern for the quality of the air that my six-year-old grandson, Soren, will breathe during the course of his young life.</i>”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HOC link: dated 7/6/2018 </span></div><h1 style="background-color: #f3f1eb; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2018-06-07a.207.2&fbclid=IwAR3_fplyAbV2ThoIJjCBBqFwsZA2SBPE70HvQ4bHt6J05h60Kuq54o-2qsA" target="_blank">Airports National Policy Statement</a></font></h1><div><br /></div><div>So why is it the pro lobby have such fond memories of events that either occurred 60 to 70 years ago (The USAF were at Manston between 1950 and 1958. They actually left because of noise over Ramsgate) or more recently when Manston became an airport in 1989 when it became Kent International Airport (KIA).</div><div><br /></div><div>As to the 1st it is extremely unlikely that noise events have been remembered properly, especially by such young individuals, what is remembered is perhaps an echo of what the actual event was and that it is fondly remembered is most likely because it was exciting for such a young mind. The fact is after 8 years of noise a deputation from local people, with the Ramsgate Mayor, went up to London to present a petition asking for the USAF to be removed because of the many noise complaints and I seriously doubt anyone is alive today that remembers that event because children didn't take part.</div><div><br /></div><div>As to recent events, when folks say it never bothers them, the amount of air transport movements bar 2004 and 2005 (which drove Planestation into receivership) has been so low as to be single events in themselves.</div><div>In fact if you look at the actual data from the Civil Aviation Authority for the last 30 years (fig 1) it is obvious just why it never bothered people, only two periods have produced more than 1 landing a day (2003 - 2005 and 2010-2011 with 2013 being an outrider as KLM started a twice daily Passenger route to Schiphol)</div><div>fig 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlGnzgeaXHEl2JKn8LbVAIU4B079LtiI2-7L7UB9vDqYigpJnx_ue9xWc8STYKyB89j97jYVIqGciuCVt37Cw1wWcFDaYzvrtNf6j-OfsWxN4p8Vs-8qRQuS5Nb_kolVktzHmRp8Y3SQ/s799/Screenshot+2020-07-29+18.17.56.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="770" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlGnzgeaXHEl2JKn8LbVAIU4B079LtiI2-7L7UB9vDqYigpJnx_ue9xWc8STYKyB89j97jYVIqGciuCVt37Cw1wWcFDaYzvrtNf6j-OfsWxN4p8Vs-8qRQuS5Nb_kolVktzHmRp8Y3SQ/w481-h500/Screenshot+2020-07-29+18.17.56.png" width="481" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> It is also clear that if RSP hit their DCO Capacity ceiling the level of noise and pollution will be nothing like Ramsgate has endured in the last 30 years.</div><div><br /></div><div>If the same regime and disregard for rules as Infratil succeeds then the 20% of Cargo flights that arrived during the night then life in Ramsgate will be unbearable. The pro lobby will point to the DCO which clearly shows night flights aren't allowed however they were banned under Infratil as well yet they still happened.</div><div><br /></div><div>Even <b>Roger Gale</b>, speaking in September 2001 (when his mate <b>Tony Freudmann</b> ran Manston), said the only way was Night Flights for cargo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpnziQNRkeM00jhi4fO2WKmgpXqm7t8HdhMU9HebZkIepZpEb4XRLM3dtY9Iot0nyGXnj8tQr3uMC3hIWqLaWE1fCsZRpq6jso2hrS5X__2d5EU9CzxfqbuANw9LhjaBL5GsP4Ba8nbPY/s677/Gale+NF+september+2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="677" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpnziQNRkeM00jhi4fO2WKmgpXqm7t8HdhMU9HebZkIepZpEb4XRLM3dtY9Iot0nyGXnj8tQr3uMC3hIWqLaWE1fCsZRpq6jso2hrS5X__2d5EU9CzxfqbuANw9LhjaBL5GsP4Ba8nbPY/w625-h69/Gale+NF+september+2001.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-45671946952001881442020-07-18T09:14:00.001-07:002020-07-18T09:31:33.700-07:00Need<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the advice to the Secretary of State " SoS" (document <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005347-TR020002%20Final%20Recommendation%20Report%20to%20DfT.pdf" target="_blank">TR020002-005347-TR020002 Final Recommendation Report to DfT</a>) the examiners:<br />
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<b><u>Examining Authority</u></b><br />
<b>Kelvin MacDonald BSc(Hons) FAcSS FRTPI CIHCM FRSA – Lead Member</b><br />
<b>Martin Broderick BSc MPhil FIEMA – Panel Member</b><br />
<b>Jonathan Hockley BA(Hons) DipTP MRTPI – Panel Member</b><br />
<b>Jonathan Manning BSc(Hons) MA MRTPI – Panel Member</b><br />
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set out a complete chapter (Chapter 5) where they discussed "Need" (pages 54-103).<br />
Their conclusion on page 103 stated:<br />
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Given all the above evidence, <b>the ExA concludes that the levels of freight that the Proposed Development could expect to handle are modest and could be catered for at existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted, EMA, and others if the demand existed). The ExA considers that Manston appears to offer no obvious advantages to outweigh the strong competition that such airports offer. The ExA therefore concludes that the Applicant has failed to demonstrate sufficient need for the Proposed Development, additional to (or different from) the need which is met by the provision of existing airports.</b><br />
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This report was written in the 3 months after the examination concluded in July 2019 and passed to the SoS for the Department of Transport "DoT" to make their decision. In January 2020 the DoT delayed the decision and then further delayed this to the 10th July. The decision was announced on the 9th July and was a Yes against the advice given by the four experts noted above.<br />
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What the Examiners would have been unable to forecast was the Coronavirus Pandemic which has decimated the aviation industry.<br />
This collapse of short and long haul flights has has two consequences:<br />
1. The airport which handles most air freight is Heathrow. 67% of all air freight is carried in the belly of long haul passenger planes and this has dropped by 90% and according to most experts will not recover for 3-4 years.<br />
2. This has meant air freight will need freighter only aircraft to carry freight for the next 3-4 years providing a boost to this niche market.<br />
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The problem for freight managers is consumer confidence is still low so the demand has also dropped and most of the World will enter a recession and currently no expert can predict when this will recover.<br />
If freighters are to be used the upside is there is plenty of slots at all the airports to cater for this usage, certainly enough to not need a new airport in the South East for the foreseeable future.<br />
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To get back to the report I will not seek to post all 50 pages but will concentrate on the conclusions, the viewer can read the full report by clicking in the link above.<br />
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<b><u>5.7. CONCLUSIONS (page 98)</u></b><br />
5.7.1. The ExA is mindful that the ANPS does not have effect in relation to an application for development consent for an airport development not comprised in an application relating to the Northwest Runway at Heathrow and associated proposals for new and reconfigured terminal capacity and, therefore, the application is examined under s105 of the PA2008.<br />
5.7.2. <b>Nevertheless, the ANPS remains an important and relevant consideration</b> in the determination of such an application, particularly where it relates to London or the South East of England.<br />
5.7.3. Government policy states that the Government is minded to be supportive of all airports which wish to make best use of their existing runways, including those in the South East (ANPS paragraph 1.39).<br />
5.7.4. The ExA considers that the Applicant’s forecasts, when seen in the light of the historical performance of the airport <b>seem ambitious</b>. Previously the airport did not go above around 50,000 tonnes of cargo and 200,000 passengers a year, compared to the 340,000 tonnes and 1.4mppa forecast now.<br />
5.7.5. The ExA accepts in this context that the investment levels proposed for the airport are at a different level to that previously spent on the site and notes anecdotal evidence that British Airways was previously in discussion with Infratil but pulled out due to a lack of investment and failure of the operator to provide a state-of-the-art facility. However, conversely SHP make reference to Wiggins Group investing £6 to 7m on new aprons and taxiways to increase freight capacity to 200,000 tonnes per annum [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-003852-Annex%203%20-%20SHP%20Comments%20on%20RSP%20Comments%20on%20Written%20Representations%20Combined%20Docs.pdf" target="_blank">REP5-028</a>].<br />
5.7.6. Although to a certain extent it may be a cause and effect situation, it is also reasonable to suggest that the previous operators of the airport, either Wiggins Group (of which one member of the Applicant’s team was also involved) or Infratil, an experienced airport operator, would have invested more heavily had there been a reasonable prospect of this investment being repaid through increased traffic levels. While at this time the new integrators were not around, Heathrow and Gatwick were at similar levels of constraint.<br />
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<b><u>Capacity</u></b><br />
5.7.7. The third runway would clearly add to capacity substantially at London Heathrow. The ANPS states that the Government estimates that a new runway at Heathrow would result in an additional 43,000 long haul flights. This would provide more space for cargo, a greater frequency of services, and boost trade and GDP. It appears to the ExA that Heathrow would be able to accommodate the projected 3m tonnes of air freight per annum in due course and that more markets would likely be served by routes from the Northwest Runway at Heathrow, should demand exist. Heathrow is the <b>dominant</b> airport in the UK for air freight, and the proposed third runway would build upon this, providing significant new opportunities for bellyhold freight via new long-haul routes. While the 3m tonnes of freight would not be achieved overnight it would be a substantial uplift from the almost 1.7m tonnes carried in 2017 and supply could rise roughly with demand.<br />
5.7.8. London Stansted has reached agreement, subject to the signing of a Section 106 Agreement with Uttlesford DC, to increase caps on the airport from 35mppa and 274,000 air movements including 20,500 air cargo movements, to 44.5mppa and 285,000 movements respectively. While a substantial part of the business at Stansted is passenger focused, <b>the Airport clearly provides an important base for freight,</b> with capacity for both integrator traffic (Fed-Ex) and general freight. The Applicant’s view is that Stansted airport has made a strategic choice to prioritise passengers over freight but <b>this is not objectively supported</b> by the evidence.<br />
5.7.9. Stansted is clearly a busy airport and becoming busier. However, from the evidence provided there appears to be a degree of capacity left at the airport, including for freight movements with the airport forecasting a growth to some 376,000 tonnes per year by 2028 from a level of 236,892 tonnes in 2017, involving 16,000 cargo movements a year (from 10,126 in 2017) and an increasing amount of bellyhold cargo alongside the predicted growth in passenger numbers.<br />
5.7.10. EMA is a major integrator hub <b>with significant growth potential</b>. Given levels of passenger throughput at the airport, it is unlikely that there will be significant strategic conflicts between passenger and cargo traffic. The ExA does not consider that there is ‘substantial circumstantial evidence’ that there is likely to be little if any scope for general cargo operators to stay overnight at EMA and it appears that the airport seeks to attract both integrator and general freight traffic. Evidence is also noted of germinative Amazon Air operations at the airport (via DHL), <b>and the substantial new warehouse and sorting centre adjacent to the airport</b> [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-003851-Annex%202%20-%20Summary%20of%20Oral%20Submissions%20to%20Need%20and%20Operations.pdf" target="_blank">REP05-029</a>].<br />
<a href="https://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/east_midlands_gateway">https://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/east_midlands_gateway</a> DCO granted<br />
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<b><u>Demand and forecasts</u></b><br />
5.7.11. The ExA does not agree that zero growth forecast by the DfT is a pragmatic view due to lack of capacity; the Department does not claim to model freight in detail and have labelled it as an assumption. From the evidence provided there is no clear view of the levels that demand for air freight may grow, but levels of growth that do occur are likely to be accommodated by the proposed new runway at Heathrow, should this occur.<br />
5.7.12. Should this not occur, there may be more demand available elsewhere, although given the preponderance of facilities in northern Europe it may be that this increases trucking levels rather than leading to a substantial growth in levels of freight being handled at other UK airports. Furthermore, growth in bellyhold at Gatwick and at other airports outside the South East may occur.<br />
5.7.13. The Applicant’s Azimuth Report [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002459-7.4%20-%20Azimuth%20Report.pdf" target="_blank">APP-085</a>] is a comprehensive document but the weight that the ExA can place on its forecasts is reduced by the lack of interview transcripts available, and of the size and sample frame of many of the interviewees, when considering the size of the forecasts that are generated and there is little evidence that academic and industry experts have validated the approach of the Azimuth Report. Furthermore, there is little evidence that capacity available elsewhere such as at EMA, or the impact of the proposed Northwest Runway at Heathrow have been taken into account in the production of the forecasts.<br />
5.7.14. The Northpoint Report [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-003623-Appendix%20to%20Comments%20on%20Written%20Representations.pdf" target="_blank">REP4-031</a>] provides a valuable alternative source to ‘back up’ the Azimuth Report. However, the limitations identified within its model, particularly those considering the scope for migrating between types of carrier and the impact of price (particularly when considering differences between bellyhold and pure freight, and trucking) appear to the ExA to be substantial limitations in the case of the Proposed Development and a more detailed model assessing such variables was not available to the ExA.<br />
5.7.15. The forecasts of Boeing and Airbus are useful in terms of noting overall levels of global air cargo growth and provide support for the Northpoint analysis. The ExA do note however the previous considerable overestimation of the number of freighters by these aircraft manufactures.<br />
5.7.16. The Avia Solutions Report forecast [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002558-Manston%20Examination%20Library%20Template.pdf" target="_blank">REP3-276</a> report available in Library] provides a comprehensive view of the viable potential of Manston Airport. The ExA note that this report is independent; the brief from TDC did not indicate any desired outcome and required an independent assessment advising whether or not it is possible to run a viable and economically sustainable free-standing airport operation from Manston. While the report was written in 2016 this remains relatively recent and it concludes that, even with a generous assumption over air freight captured from trucking, airport operations at Manston are very unlikely to be financially viable in the longer term, and almost certainly not possible in the period to 2031.<br />
5.7.17. While the Avia Solutions Report’s conclusions were based on viability, this arises in the report from the authors’ assessment of potential and forecasts for the airport – in other words, the need for the development. Also of note is that the report considered capacity squeezes and a major retail group, akin to Amazon basing themselves at the airport; neither possibility led to a different conclusion. Due to the independence and depth of this report, the ExA place <b>significant</b> weight on its findings.<br />
5.7.18. On the basis of the evidence provided, the ExA considers that the predominance of bellyhold freight in the UK market as opposed to pure freight is to a large extent a by-product of the dominance of Heathrow in the UK aviation market. The effect of the size of Heathrow, and the vast range of destinations that are available from this hub airport have led to the strength of bellyhold freight for UK purposes, particularly when coupled with the relative ease of access to the large hub airports and pure freight airports in northern Europe. Trucking is a necessary mechanism to complete this overall market pattern and allows access to the population and manufacturing capacity of northern Europe. In the ExA’s view air freight would still primarily be attracted to the airports with <b>the widest possible global networks for reasons of economies of scale.</b><br />
5.7.19. It also appears logical to the ExA that bellyhold freight would be <b>significantly cheaper</b> than pure freight and that this in itself also helps to explain the dominance of bellyhold over pure freight, with much pure freight dedicated to express integrators who can charge more for express delivery times.<br />
5.7.20. The Applicant considers that Manston could act in a complementary role to bellyhold freight at Heathrow and integrator freight at EMA.<br />
5.7.21. However, the ExA’s analysis of the predominance of bellyhold freight in the UK (above) suggests that there is little complementary role to be had – while some oversized freight items may be too large or bulky for bellyhold travel, the vast majority of general freight can be carried in bellyholds.<br />
5.7.22. A useful point is made by the Applicant noting that the cargo industry is fundamentally changing, and that this change needs an innovative response which cannot be provided at constrained South East airports. However, the change proposed by the Applicant appears to be largely based on new integrators who would offer similar comprehensive delivery patterns and structures to established integrators but with less strict time restrictions. In the view of the ExA then the likely locations for such integrators are likely to be closer to the centre of the country than Manston. While Manston can clearly offer good quick access to London and much of the South East*, a more central positions within the UK offers more potential customers than just London and the South East can provide; within a three hour drive from Manston only the South East and parts of the East of England can be reached, whereas most of England and Wales is within three hours of EMA.<br />
* <b>Editor's note: </b><i>The conclusion (tempered by the second sentence is slightly odd considering Heathrow is served by the M4 and M25, Gatwick by the M23 (with the M25 20 minutes away), and the East Midlands by the 8 lane M1. Manston is dual carriageway until the Hoath Way junction on the M2 some 35 miles away with a further 10 miles to the M25 and Dartford river crossing which for those in the area hold ups are a regular occurrence especially at the river crossing.</i><br />
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<b><u>Summary</u></b><br />
5.7.23. The ExA is <b>not convinced</b> that there is a substantial gap between capacity and demand for general air freight within the South East at present. Capacity is available or could be available at other airports within the South East or at other airports within reach of the South East should the demand exist, and such capacity could largely be achieved relatively simply through permitted development rights or existing facilities.<br />
5.7.24. The ExA is of the opinion that general air freight would continue to be well served in the UK with spare capacity at Stansted in the short term (to 2030) and the proposed Northwest Runway at Heathrow in the longer term, and that new integrators are more likely to wish to be sited in a more central location. If constructed and operated then the Proposed Development could carry out a role within the market focused on perishables and oversized niche freight as previously but it seems unlikely that tonnage achieved will be significantly more than previously handled. Without the proposed Northwest Runway at Heathrow more demand may be available but the ExA’s conclusions relating to new integrators, that is that they would be more likely to base themselves in a more central location to their other logistical operations, remain valid.<br />
5.7.25. The Applicant argues that price is not the only determinant in where freight business may go – factors such as facilities, speed, handling efficiency and location all count too. While the ExA agree with this view, it seems logical to assume that price is the main component in any decision made and that bellyhold freight will generally be cheaper. If demand were present, then facilities could be constructed at other airports where speed and handling efficient could be largely matched to the Applicant’s plan and the ExA is not convinced that the location of the Proposed Development is entirely favourable.<br />
5.7.26. In terms of passenger traffic, the full extent of the Azimuth Report forecasts [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-002459-7.4%20-%20Azimuth%20Report.pdf" target="_blank">APP-085</a><span id="goog_1459491366"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1459491367"></span>] may be difficult to reach. However, the ExA considers that there would be a market for passenger traffic from the airport although the extent to which such traffic would be viable for the airport operators has not been assessed in depth.<br />
5.7.27. GA was not examined in depth in the Examination, and the Azimuth Report [APP-085] does not cover the subject in detail. Nevertheless, the ExA notes the support for GA facilities in the APF and the NPPF (paragraph 104) and the representations received on this matter.<br />
5.7.28. Appendix 1 of the Applicant’s Overall Summary of Need Case [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-004669-Applicant's%20Overall%20Summary%20of%20Need%20Case.pdf" target="_blank">APP11-013</a>] states that little weight should be afforded to the submissions of SHP given the withdrawal of this company’s objection to the Proposed Development *. In this context however the ExA note the comments of York Aviation, which states that they strongly refute criticism of their work by the Applicant in its written answers and consider that they have “provided substantial and well evidenced responses throughout the process” [<a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-004642-York%20Aviation%20LLP%20-%20lt%20Manston%20ExA.pdf" target="_blank">REP11-070</a>].<br />
* <b>Editor's note</b> <span style="background-color: #1a91da; color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The request by SHP to withdraw its representations was made less than five hours before the Examination closed at 23:59 on 9 July 2019. On that basis, the ExA determined that it was received too late in the Examination for the ExA to properly consider the request or the implications for other Interested Parties. SHP’s representations therefore remain part of the Examination Library. This determination has been communicated to IPs via the s51 advice pages on the National Infrastructure Planning website. </span><br />
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Given all the above evidence, <b>the ExA concludes that the levels of freight that the Proposed Development could expect to handle are modest and could be catered for at existing airports (Heathrow, Stansted, EMA, and others if the demand existed). The ExA considers that Manston appears to offer no obvious advantages to outweigh the strong competition that such airports offer. The ExA therefore concludes that the Applicant has failed to demonstrate sufficient need for the Proposed Development, additional to (or different from) the need which is met by the provision of existing airports.</b><br />
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-14740127647332644282020-07-10T12:24:00.000-07:002020-07-10T12:24:47.281-07:00PerverseHaving waited through delay and further delay finally the Minister has made a decision over the Manston site. Far more than the decision it was important to finally get to see how all the evidence had been received by the Examiners, the report can be viewed <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005347-TR020002%20Final%20Recommendation%20Report%20to%20DfT.pdf" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<b>Taking the decision first:</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #031047; font-family: Calibri, "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The decision deadline was delayed twice and the inspectors recommended refusal but on 9 July 2020, one day before the latest deadline, the Secretary of State for Transport (in fact, Minister of State Andrew Stephenson, because Grant Shapps had previously expressed support for the project), granted consent for the Manston Airport Development Consent Order.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #031047; font-family: Calibri, "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Now a look at the ExA (Examining Authority) itself:</b></span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #031047; font-family: Calibri, "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Application made:</strong> 17 July 2018;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #031047; font-family: Calibri, "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;">Four inspectors, Kelvin MacDonald (his sixth), Martin Broderick (his sixth), Jon Hockley (his first), Jonathan Manning (his first);</li>
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Whilst noting the ExA’s consideration of need [ER 5] and conclusion that the
Applicant’s failure to demonstrate sufficient need weighs substantially against the case for
development consent being given [ER 8.2.25 - 8.2.26], the <b>Secretary of State disagrees and
concludes that there is a clear case of need for the Development which existing airports
(Heathrow, Stansted, EMA and others able to handle freight) would not bring about to the
same extent or at all</b>.</div>
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The Secretary of State’s conclusions on the need for the Development are set out
above in paragraphs 20 and 21 and, whilst noting the ExA’s view that the jobs created would
not be to the same extent as forecast by the Applicant [ER 8.2.183], he concludes that
significant economic and socio-economic benefits would flow from the Development to
Thanet and East Kent as well as more widely including employment creation, benefits to
general aviation and regeneration benefits. <b>In reaching that view, the Secretary of State
notes the ExA’s view that the Development may adversely affect the tourism industry in
Ramsgate. Whilst he is sympathetic to any residents and business holders that may be
affected, he also notes the ExA’s overall view that it would increase the attraction of tourists
to other parts of Thanet and the wider East Kent area </b></div>
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You can read the full justification in the <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-005348-Manston%20Airport%20DCO%20Decision%20Letter%20Dated%209%20July%202020%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">decision letter</a></div>
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<b>One might ask how 4 experienced Examiners could be so wrong. </b></div>
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<b>You might ask just what relevant experience Andrew Stephenson brought to the decision making process. </b></div>
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<b>One might ask why two Conservative MP's have been so vocal in their support for an entity controlled in Panama, and why a Conservative Minister can overturn the conclusion of said experienced Examiners.</b></div>
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<b>This decision feels so irrational that it should be assessed in the Courts at a Judicial Review</b></div>
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God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-90597506303705337762019-07-11T12:59:00.002-07:002019-07-11T13:03:17.498-07:00lest we forgetWith the sale of 742 acres of brownfield to a tax haven based in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (HLX Nominees) we see the end of an era that started in 1915 with the transfer of a turnip field to the Royal Navy Air Service during WW1<br />
It was, of course, 1100 acres until Tony Freudmann sold off 300 acres to finance the change from Wiggins to Planestation which so spectacularly failed in 2005 taking with it millions of pounds of investment much of it from locals sweet talked into parting with their cash by buying shares in their local airport.<br />
Late in 2005 the Trustee in Bankruptcy sold the site to a New Zealand company Infratil and that is where this timeline starts<br />
<b>2009</b><br />
"<i>In 2009, following the potential start of dedicated cargo operations by British Airways World Cargo, Thanet District Council (TDC) requested Manston Airport (MSE) to develop and submit to the council a Night-time Flying Policy (NTFP) pursuant to clauses 1.2 and 1.3 of the Second Schedule to the Section 106 agreement dated 26 September 2000 between TDC and MSE. An initial outline was presented on 17 August 2009, which was subsequently further developed, with a full submission being made on 28 September 2010."</i><br />
<i>"The report also commented on the impact that this limit on night-time operations would have on the financial viability of the airport. It noted that</i><br />
<i>“if the Airport cannot be made profitable with the restricted operations, then its long term future may be put in jeopardy, along with all the jobs and GVA created by it locally.” </i>from the report to Cabinet 2011<br />
<i></i><br />
So to assess what the residents felt about a maximum of 659 night time movements (as per report by Thanet Council) in 2011 TDC asked for peoples opinion and of the 3000 replies the majority (over 70%) were <b>AGAINST</b> night flights.<br />
Thanet Council voted against allowing Night Flights and Infratil retaliated by putting Manston up for sale in December 2011<br />
22 months later it was finally offloaded to Ann Gloag having failed to find a new operator<br />
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<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">October</strong> <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2013:</strong> Infratil announce the sale of Manston airport to Stagecoach tycoon Ann Gloag for a nominal £1, plus accrued debts of around £17M.</div>
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<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">November 2013</strong>: Ann Gloag’s Manston Skyport takes over the airport. At the same time it seems Annax Aviation approached TDC's planning department enquiring whether there was scope to build 1000 (some say 2000) homes on the Northern Grass's pre ww2 grass runway to the North of the runway. Who was Annax Aviation?</div>
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So where was "our Tone" going to find the money to finance buying Manston?</div>
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It is understood that he did approach the new owner but was rebuffed and it soon became obvious that the £10000 losses a day were focussing the new owner's mind and </div>
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<b>March 2014</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: Ann Gloag announces plans to close the airport and so Tony tried again this time using the company run by Steven DeNardo Riveroak LLP based in Delaware, USA whom, it is said, he met at a business meeting in Canary Wharf.</span></div>
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<b>May 15, 2014</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: The airport closes with the loss of 144 jobs. An offer of the full £7million asking price for the site by US firm RiverOak Corporation is refused. The payment was offered in a deal where Ann Gloag was asked to leave Skyport’s £2million in the bank account making a net £5million offer.</span></div>
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<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">August 2014</strong>: TDC issue a formal notice and the process of finding an indemnity partner for the Manston CPO begins</div>
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So what did they send TDC which scared off the Labour administration?</div>
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Their business spreadsheet showed their various funds has potential spare equity of $20M and then there was the line of credit amounting to $400K</div>
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It is hardly surprising then that TDC got cold feet</div>
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<b>February and March 2015</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: Transport Select Committee looks at the Manston airport issue as part of its examination of smaller UK airports. The result was that Manston was considered and rejected.</span></div>
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<b>May 2015</b> the local elections led to an overwhelming vote for the UKIP party winning 33 seats and overall control of TDC. Chris Wells stated that in was about time Thanet was taken in a new direction and because one element of their manifesto was to try again and find an Indemnity Partner to take back the airport.</div>
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As soon as he took control Chris instigated the process to find this Partner and again Riveroak took part. Chris promised to look again so he kept the manifesto promise. <b>Yet did Riveroak do the same?</b></div>
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The same month TDC Cabinet <b>agree to take no further CPO action</b> on Manston saying RiverOak do not meet the indemnity requirements.</div>
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So what went wrong? All the stars were aligned yet once again Riveroak failed dismally. It seems the same problem that had gone wrong in December 2014 had happened once again with Riveroak failing to convince TDC that they had the money required.</div>
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<b>November 2015</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: Thanet council again announces a further soft marketing exercise for Manston airport</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<b>December 2015</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: It was announced that RiverOak would undertake a Development Consent Order (DCO) process to acquire permission from central government to reopen the airport</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<b>February 2016:</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Thanet District Council announced a total of five expressions of interest had been received, with three being carried forward to the next stage of the CPO process</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>8 </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>July 2016</b> Riveroak Strategic Partners (and associated companies) were incorporated at Companies House. However Riveroak LLP (based in Delaware) was used as the vehicle for the DCO (Development Consent Order)</span></span></div>
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Thanet council say the report means the authority does not have sufficient evidence to continue to designate the site ‘for aviation use only’ within its Local Plan.</div>
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MP Sir Roger Gale says he will quit politics if Manston does not reopen as an airport</div>
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understand Belize is one of 14 Caribbean nations named by the US as
“major money laundering” countries in the 2016 International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report (INCSR) released by the US State Department.</i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><i><br />According
to the report, a major money laundering country is defined as one
“whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving
significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics
trafficking”.<br />The report notes that Belize is not a
major regional financial center but has a substantial offshore financial
sector. It also notes that Belize is a transshipment point for
marijuana and cocaine, and states that human trafficking is also a
concern for the country.”<br /><br />What else would you like us to note?<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />Chris Wells</i>"</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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This email, based on reports available from the US, confirmed Belize as a money laundering centre and advising not to deal with companies registered in that jurisdiction. To date RSP have NOT sued either Chris Wells or TDC simply because it is so noted as an ML state. </div>
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<b>Belize offers a high degree of privacy. Belize will not disclose its banking or fiscal information to any foreign party.</b></div>
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<b>No tax at all</b></div>
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<b>No reporting requirements.</b></div>
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The same month <span style="color: black;">RSP publishes three parts of a four part report</span> outlining its future proposals and criticising a previous airport viability study commissioned by Thanet council.</div>
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The study on behalf of Riveroak Strategic Partners forms part of the DCO process that the firm is following through Central Government to allow for a cargo and aviation business to be installed at Manston.</div>
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<b>During late 2017 and early 2018</b> 3 consultations were held and were characterised by the lack of meaningful information on Night Flights and how the local residents would be affected (something that is still ongoing)</div>
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<b>April 2018</b> Riveroak submit their DCO</div>
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<b>8th May 2018</b> The DCO is withdrawn (some say before it was rejected)</div>
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<b>17th July 2018</b> Riveroak resubmit the DCO</div>
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1<b>4th August 2018 </b>DCO accepted for examination</div>
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<b>9th January 2019</b> (after a registration period) the Public Examination starts </div>
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<b>8th July 2019</b> RSP confirm they will be buying the Manston site for £16.5M ( on top of this will be the continuing income from Operation Brock circa another £4.5M)</div>
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<b>9th July 2019</b> RSP confirm sale has been completed and the DCO <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Examination closed at 23:59</span></div>
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<br />God help ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726756701964575422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7939456303063215813.post-15464439347161818172019-06-20T11:45:00.001-07:002019-06-20T11:46:34.611-07:00Is a verbal promise worth anythingRight back at the beginning of the DCO process the museums on the Manston site were promised by RSP to be "fully respected" and although they may need to be moved because of the realignment of the road junction they would be "looked after"<br />
<b>Was this an empty promise?</b><br />
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Those oral promises by Tony Freudmann were made within the backdrop of Stone Hill Park removing the museum lease and giving them unfettered access to the land when they granted them the freehold of the site. However the museums wrote in support of RSP initially but it seems now to have been a poor decision in light of RSP's failure to communicate with the trustees.<br />
To read this letter in situ go to the Pins site <a href="https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR020002/TR020002-004328-AS%20Spitfire%20Museum%20submission%2013.06.2019.pdf" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Further it seems that Riveroak and Tony Freudmann are paying lip service to the idea of protecting the historical assets on the Manston site<br />
From a submission by the supporters of Manston is the following extract:<br />
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"<i>This submission is based on the concerns over the retention and development of the historic features of Manston Airport. There are concerns about historic features that could be lost, or where close proximity of development may be detrimental to them. This is not intended to be a critique or opinion in regards to the current application outside of the heritage aspects of the current application which would apply to any future use of Manston airport.</i><br />
<i>We are concerned that the recent hearing held 3rd June 2019 on Landscape, Design, Archaeology and Heritage spent only around 15 minutes discussing non-designated assets when there appears to be disagreement or lack of agreement between the applicant and interested parties. We were also concerned although they were in attendance in the public area, it appeared that representatives from the museums were not included in the Interested Parties invited to attend and participate in the discussions for both their own futures and those of heritage features on the site. We are aware of further discussions on 7th June 2019 and there appears to be some way to go before agreement between the applicant and interested parties.</i><br />
<i><b>We have concerns that the applicant appears dismissive</b> of the potential of at least some historic buildings/structures on Manston as stated by Historic England in response to Question HE.3.2 as part of the Deadline 7a Submission. It would also seem that further surveying and analysis must take place in order to document them. We agree that the loss of the buildings and features cannot be largely mitigated by recording only, <b>but it seems that protection of all of them does not form part of the development plans</b>, contrary to The Airports National Policy Statement (2018) (ANPS)</i>."<br />
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"<i>We would urge the inspectors to ensure sufficient measures are in place to make sure that surveying of all archaeological and historic features, known and unknown, is carried out in full consultation with interested parties. Further we would request that all existing features from the military history of Manston are protected. We would hope these sites are preserved and form part of a wider scheme of historic protection and education for the public as suggested by the KCC submission. <b>At this point in time, it would appear that the applicant’s plans do not include the protection of all the potential heritage on the site.</b>"</i><br />
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You can read the entire submission here <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_91585697"></span>Submission regarding heritage aspects on the Manston Airport site by ‘Supporters of Manston Airport’<span id="goog_91585698"></span></a>,<br />
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Picture from Luftwaffe reconnaissance 1939</div>
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RSP needs, even at this late hour, to provide reassurance that the history in the Manston site is preserved for future generations to understand the role this frontline airfield had in the "Battle of Britain" and WW2</div>
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It is completely wrong that RSP seem to have made promises to preserve the heritage of the site and with just 3 weeks to go to the end of the examination it now seems that the heritage has been demoted to just a footnote in the DCO.</div>
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