I WOULD like to reply to Mr Fry’s letter (YA 21/04/10) and must say I found his comments quite condescending.
What exactly is Mr Fry’s point then? Is it in favour of more jobs, well according to a previous letter the workforce building the station nad control tower are apparently part of Mr Stobart’s own associated companies, does he really think that there will be jobs for local people?
I notice Mr Fry lives in Basildon, so he won’t mind if we arrive outside his house with a loud speaker blaring a recording of the aircraft at 1 o’clock and 6.30 in the morning and every five minutes while he is sitting in his garden on a summer’s day, although we won’t be able to recreate the overpowering smell of fuel to accompany it.
we live about 200 metres from the taxi runway and about 300 metres from the main runway and some times the noise of the recent aircraft has rattled the glasses on the unit.
Does he realise the area has been so built up since the 60s and will be a disaster for our children, residents and infrastructure?
I fully agree with <a href=”http://www.saen.org.uk/2010/04/stobart-has-brainwashed-our-council/”>Mr Knightley’s letter</a>, and I am fed up with people’s opinions who do not live in the area.
If they lived around the airport it would be a different story. Stobart is freight and states freight will be carried on the passenger planes.
Well, there won’t be much room for luggage will there.
It may be the planes will only go where the freight is to go which may not be a destination people may want to go.
Is getting a plane from this airport once or so a year worth the anguish, disruption, health issues, noise, pollution for many people for 52 weeks a year.
We have lived here for 20 years there were no searches to warn us this airfield would ever be able to be turned into an airport to the scale of the proposals and we have learned to live in harmony with the airport as it is and that is OK.
But the comments of ‘why live near an airport?’ in such a sarcastic manner. I would point out you moved into a house and you knew and accepted there was a road in front of your house.
June Carr, via e-mail