public meetings on kent airport plans
07.05.05
Canterbury residents are to be asked for their views about the future of Kent Airport, including continued night flights, at two public meetings later this month. Canterbury City Council, a consultee on the planning agreement, plans to hold two public meetings in May, before giving a response to Thanet about airport plans.
An existing agreement between Thanet council and PlaneStation, which runs Kent International Airport (the former Manston airport), is under review. Thanet council said more information was now available about the future impact of the airport on local residents, including flights, aircraft and noise.
The airport agreement being reviewed is a voluntary project, but once it is in place it will become legally binding. The agreement, called a Section 106, sets out how a developer will contribute to the community - for example, by donating cash for road schemes, providing affordable homes or creating new open spaces - in return for a planning application being approved.
Passenger flights began operating from the airport at Manston in September 2004. Despite widespread opposition from people living nearby, EUjet was granted permission to run night flights this summer from April until September.
Thanet council has already run a three-month consultation which ended in April 2005. Sir Alastair Hunter, chairman of Kent International Airport Consultative Committee, and representatives from Thanet council and PlaneStation will be on the panel at the two new Canterbury meetings.
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