Dear Mr Scrutton,
No doubt you will be incensed at the temerity of the Stobart group in submitting an application for planning permission to extend the runway at Southend Airport part-way through the Joint Area Action Plan process being conducted at the time by your Council and Southend Borough Council to decide joint policy on, among other things, that very issue.
I trust therefore that Rochford District Council’s Development Control Committee will be expressing in the strongest terms the Council’s anger at this move and insist that Southend Borough Council defers the decision until after the JAAP process has been concluded.
I presume also that the Council will want to take the earliest opportunity to instruct the Government Office for the East of England that it is their desire to have the application called in for determination by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham MP following a Public Inquiry at which the Council and all other parties will be given the opportunity to test the airport’s various assertions as to the benefits of the runway extension and put forward their own views.
I look forward to your prompt response.
Yours sincerely,
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Denis Walker
Press Officer, Stop Airport Extension Now
http://www.saen.org.uk/
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