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YES TO MORE EMPLOYERS IN THANET

!YES TO INVESTMENT

!YES TO JOBS

EMAIL TDC AT LOCAL.PLANS@THANET.GOV.UK SAY YES TO MORE EMPLOYERS IN THANET

SAY YES TO INVESTMENT SAY YES TO JOBS

!It’s time to tell your Council to work with the site’s owners to develop Manston in the best way possible for Thanet residents.

IT’S TIME TO RECOGNISE THAT THE AIRPORT DREAM IS DEAD. IT’S TIME TO MAKE SOME BETTER PLANS THAT WILL BRING THOUSANDS OF JOBS NOT THE HUNDRED OR SO THAT WERE AT THE OLD AIRPORT

COMPLETE TDC’S CONSULTATION ELECTRONICALLY AT: HTTPS://CONSULT.THANET.GOV.UK GET A PAPER COPY BY RINGING 01843 577591 OR FROM LOCAL.PLANS@THANET.GOV.UK CONTACT MANSTON PICKLE OR NNF WWW.MANSTONPICKLE.COM OR MANSTONPICKLE@GMAIL.COM OR WWW.NONIGHTFLIGHTS.INFO

WE NEED TO ACCEPT THE£1BILLION INVESTMENT WE’RE BEING OFFERED!

What can I do? If you want: • to encourage £1bn new investment to

come to Thanet… • a range of new employers in Thanet bringing

worthwhile, decent jobs… • to see the Manston site developed in a

creative and sustainable way… • the Council to work with the site owners to

ensure that any development benefits us all by including schools, recreational facilities, healthcare centres etc… !

then make your views known to TDC. If you don’t tell them, they’ll never know! Tell them to update the Local Plan to recognise there is no longer an airport at Manston and there won’t be a new one.

MAN

STON

and YOU!

They already have a tenant lined up who would bring 300 jobs to the site - more than twice the number of jobs the airport supported. Manston is a big brownfield site where building even a relatively small number of houses could avoid some of the squeezing in of houses on plots of green land throughout Thanet.

MANSTON IN THE LOCAL PLAN The draft Local Plan, written months ago, says the Council could earmark the site for ‘aviation’ and refers to the airport throughout. This ignores the fact that the owners won’t re-open the airport. It ignores the fact that the only company in the world that wanted to run Manston as an airport can’t afford to. The problem with this wishful thinking about aviation is that the Manston site will stay empty until the Council comes to grips with reality and accepts that the airport is not an option. In the meantime, which could be years and years, we’ll have no investment in the site, no businesses and no new jobs. The airport dream is dead. It’s time to make more ambitious and realistic plans that will bring thousands of jobs to Thanet, not just the hundred or so that were at the old airport. !Write to TDC! Dear TDC

The airport has shut. Our Local Plan can’t depend on it re-opening. The land should be allocated for mixed use development for businesses, jobs and community structure.

Yours etc

J Bloggs

WHY NO AIRPORT? Manston airport lost money for fifteen years. It was up for sale for 18 months. Nobody wanted it. When it closed it was losing £10,000 a day. The new owners have no plans for an airport. TDC could try and force them to sell the site by getting a Compulsory Purchase Order. But the Council doesn’t have the money to do this. Last year, it looked for an ‘indemnity partner’ to pick up the CPO tab. Only one (American) company was interested. After months of discussions, it turned out that they didn’t have the money either. Even if they did, their plans were for a major cargo hub which even aviation experts don’t believe would work. So, do you want more years of failure but with guaranteed noise, pollution, damage to health, to children’s cognitive abilities; with decreased house values and the likelihood of scheduled night flights? And all with no passenger flights? Manston has had years to prove itself both as a passenger and cargo operation. It doesn’t work. Manston’s 15 year attempt to be a successful commercial airport is over.

MANSTON’S FUTURE - INVESTMENT AND JOBS The new owners have NO plans to re-open the airport. They have NO plans for a sprawling housing estate. They want to: • attract lots of employers to the site so that

we’re not dependent on just one employer • develop community buildings and services

which are desperately needed • include some housing to produce a multi-user

site of jobs, services and homes together. They’re talking about £1bn of investment and thousands of new jobs. They plan to develop the largest business part in Kent - larger than their development on the old Pfizer site at Sandwich.

TELL THE COUNCIL HOW YOU THINK THE SITE SHOULD BE DEVELOPED Thanet District Council (TDC) is writing Thanet’s Local Plan. This will shape planning and development decisions across Thanet for decades to come. Manston airport closed last year. The airport won’t reopen. Tell your Council how you think the Manston site should be developed. The deadline is 6th March 2015 Contact TDC online: local.plans@thanet.gov.uk Complete the consultation online: https://consult.thanet.gov.uk Contact TDC by post: Strategic Planning, TDC, PO Box 9 Cecil Street Margate, CT9 1XZ