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Fourth Kent hub airport proposal unveiled

Started by mhm, December 19, 2012, 03:27:13 PM

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Plans to build a 24-hour £39bn hub airport on large sandbanks off the Kent coast have been unveiled.

Engineering firm Beckett Rankine wants to construct a four-runway airport on Goodwin Sands near Deal.

Director Tim Beckett said it was the "most sustainable solution" to aviation expansion in the South East and would have the "least adverse impact
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20783474
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viking9

An opportunity for someone to provide hovercraft for SAR in the area.  ;)
Tom

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QuoteDirector Tim Beckett said it was the "most sustainable solution" to aviation expansion in the South East and would have the "least adverse impact

What a surprise, A Director of the company wanting to build it saying it's the most viable blah blah.  Not one of the current ideas on the table will prevent the loss of millions of estuary and/or marshland birds, maybe Becketts will kill less than the other three.

Bah humbug!