Manston – nearly 100 Years of history to close tomorrow……or??

I drove past there yesterday, there will be a lot of work to bring it back up to standard again.

Unfortunately the northern grass and the present fire school will be sacrificed under circa 2000 houses. This combined area more or less covers the extent of the airfield in 1940 so it could be argued that its another historical loss.

The main plan is for a freight airport with some passenger traffic. There are still planning enquiries to complete and the agreement to use the runway as a lorry park goes on to the end of 2020.
mmitch.

I sincerely hope this plan comes to fruition, it’s a historic site that deserves to be saved and kept in use as an airfield. I really thought it would end up being built on and I’d almost given up hope that it would ever be re-activated.

Important news about Manston to be announced today. More on other thread.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?130110-Still-hope-for-Manston&highlight=manston

Have just stumbled across this (inadvertently), some four years on.

https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2019/07/07/new-owners-of-kents-manston-airport-target-relaunch-of-flights-by-2022/

Wanted to post this snippet, as I’d already thought Manston was finished & after “that woman” supposedly acquired it, buried in houses ?

Would LOVE to see Manston back in use again, even if only in a small-scale capacity, whatever…..

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Important news about Manston to be announced today. More on other thread.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?130110-Still-hope-for-Manston&highlight=manston

Withe the greatest of respect to Lydd -Manston does seem to be the prime location in Kent for an airfield. I hope it can survive .

The fast lady has not yet taken to the stage at Manston, despite efforts from north of the border to push her on!!

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/injunction-bid-against-airport-closure-18810/

Daily Heil maybe but they are rehashing the old story and adding parts of the Observer investigation published this morning. There has clearly been some clever manoeuvring by Mrs Gloag and we have not heard the last of it I am sure.

From the Daily Fail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638774/Anger-Scotlands-richest-businesswoman-closes-Kent-airport-key-Battle-Britain-airfield-buying-just-1-promising-open.html

[QUOTE=mmitch;2138945]But could you sell 500-1000 houses there with no jobs and no rail link?

Easy

You clear an inner London Housing estate to build yuppy hutches and the displaced tenants people are moved to your new houses.

Not a joke, it’s just happened in South East London

By distance about the sane wherever you are I suppose. At least airport travellers don’t need a season ticket.

Around £5,000 for an annual season ticket from East Kent to London….
mmitch.

Yup – 8 mins to Ramsgate and 75 mins by HS1 to St Pancras International. Double that for Lydd and you might be close.

I meant that you saw housing as an option and if not that sheep. Clearly a man with good overview of the situation.

Nope -checked what I wrote = accurate.
Rail line reaches Herne Bay(6 miles) & Ramsgate (2miles).
I remember the Silver-City Hermes operation (bussed pax in).

David Burke – TDC might be anguishing now but showed little when the thorny issue of longer flying hours and night slots was being aired.

rochford – perhaps a little more homework is required!!?;)

Rear Sheep then.

But could you sell 500-1000 houses there with no jobs and no rail link? Plus the cost of clearing the site of any
‘buried problems’ Thanet has been the unemployment black spot of Kent since the coal mines closed and was made even worse when Pfizers ‘downsized.’
mmitch.

Pretty simple really:
Invicta 1 & 2/Air Ferry & Silver city only found passengers by coaching them in from elsewhere as a package.
Freight does not pay with one or two flights a day (Memphis is different, pax by day boxes by night).
The entire infrastructure has to be there for freight or passengers/ Fire-cover is dictated by the length of the plane & hence is out of proportion.
ATC approval & radar approval & staffing costs are high.
Local council extremely happy to charge airfield based on size & buildings.
Much better to build large housing estate & send pax to Lydd (which will then thrive? -no)

Don’t really get that ! Manston has been flying far more cargo than anything else for years!