As someone who lives under Manstons flight path, I am against any expansion. In fact, I’d actively support any idea to a change of the lands use.

The floating island/land relciam idea may not be the best for the natural envoronment, but if other major crowded places (such as HK, Osaka, Singapore) can do it, so can we at least entertain the idea.

You, as a kent county councillor, should be supporting views aired by your “subjects”, and not just the businesses. I suggest you read their masterplan document – pure fantasy, no substance, and misleading.

Infratil have had 3 year now, and we have seen the market deterioirate, jobs not materialise, and the only increase in flights have been training flights, where planes repeatedly go round and round and no-one can get onn them, no freight is transferred etc etc. What is the point?

London has 4 other airports, 120,000 people in Thanet cannot support or justfy an airport of 297 hectares with 50 passenger flights ar year.

As a councillor, you should be supporting the best use for land for all of kents population. 10 years in total as a private airport has produced nothing. I suggest you and your colleagues start looking at getting the best value out of the assets you manage, and start penalising businesses with huge resources that giving nothing but noise, pollution and very little jobs for the assets they manage.