Manston, round and around we go! this time its going to be?

• Reginald Barrington

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  3 July 2019     19:56358174
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  https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/manston-airport-taken-massive-step-3049490
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• Button

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  3 July 2019     22:03358176
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  Hopefully not a lorry park mandated for (only) some of the cross-channel (surface) routes. Although, you never know - if Boris Island were to make a comeback...
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• Guest 2547

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  4 July 2019     09:28358178
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  I understand that River Oak have committed to honour government contracts for lorry parking as part of the deal. Lord alone knows how long they may last.
• Captain Haddock

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  5 July 2019     13:14358190
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  But will find out after a year that it is not 'commercially feasible' and will be forced 'unfortunately' to fill it with housing as coincidentally it is right next door to the brand new Thanet Parkway station which Railtrack have already given the go ahead for.
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• Paul Watkins

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  6 July 2019     11:59358198
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  Keep up Bob . If it is designated by Develop Consent order as National Infrastructure bang goes the housing.
• Captain Haddock

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  7 July 2019     12:20358206
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  Keep up Paul? I'm well ahead of you.
  
  No-one is going to build a cargo hub so far from the places the cargo needs to get to and so badly served by both rail and road.
  
  This is why Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal is in errr Daventry in the middle of the country and connected to motorway system.
  
  EMA would be a much better choice for expansion or any of the other Midlands airports.
  
  I don't care if Moses himself came down from the mountain with Development Consent carved in tablets of stone, it ain't going to happen
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• Paul Watkins

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  7 July 2019     16:17358208
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  You could well be right Bob but the Development Consent Order will sterilise the site for other than an airport & other designated activities but not housing.
• Captain Haddock

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  6 April 2021     14:55369499
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  The saga continues:-
  
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/further-blow-for-manston-airport-comeback-plans-245058/
  
  As I've said before IF you were looking to open up an airport for freight you would not chose a site with two lane access (M2) to the rest of the country and a rail track profile limiting freight rolling stock size.
  
  In spite of the pandemic in November, East Midlands Airport (EMA) processed its highest number of goods in a month at 41,613 tonnes, a 26.4% increase on last year.
  
  Meanwhile, the nearby East Midlands Gateway hub, which opened in January 2020, has so far transported 30,000 containers by rail - more than expected.
  
  Manston is a non starter.
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• Dover Pilot

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  6 April 2021     16:28369504
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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  The saga continues:-
  
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/further-blow-for-manston-airport-comeback-plans-245058/
  
  As I've said before IF you were looking to open up an airport for freight you would not chose a site with two lane access (M2) to the rest of the country and a rail track profile limiting freight rolling stock size.
  
  In spite of the pandemic in November, East Midlands Airport (EMA) processed its highest number of goods in a month at 41,613 tonnes, a 26.4% increase on last year.
  
  Meanwhile, the nearby East Midlands Gateway hub, which opened in January 2020, has so far transported 30,000 containers by rail - more than expected.
  
  Manston is a non starter.

  
  
  
  And yet the Guvmnt were sending up to 8,000 containers on wheels a week to Manston since Christmas
• Captain Haddock

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  4 February 2022     17:58374565
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  Yet another reason, as if one was needed, that Manston as an airport is a non starter.
  
  Thanet: Taxpayers could foot £3.8 billion bill for Manston Airport carbon clean-up
  
  https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/thanet-taxpayers-could-foot-38-6589269
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