Keep the Marsh Special Alliance steps up campaign against Lydd Airport expansion

8 Jan 2007
Cllr Julie White and Peter Carroll are campaigning against airport expansion at Lydd
KMSA member Peter Carroll and local councillor Julie White

Protesters fighting airport expansion proposals at Lydd Airport in Kent have stepped up their campaign to stop the development.

London Ashford Airport (Lydd Airport), has submitted planning applications to Shepway District Council for a runway extension and a new passenger terminal. A six-week consultation programme is under way.

But campaigners from the Keep The Marsh Special Alliance have urged local residents to write letters of protest to the council and the government.

Supporters of the group, which was set up to fight the plans along with the Lydd Airport Action Group, spent Sunday delivering thousands of leaflets to householders across the area.

It asks residents to consider their "quality of life" if the proposals go ahead.

"There will be jet flights over this area every 20 to 30 minutes," it says. "There will be increased road congestion. If we don't stop it now, the expansion will go ahead and our lives will be blighted forever."

The proposals would see a 500,000 capacity passenger terminal building and a 637 space car park built, with the aim of creating a large regional airport, with a capacity of two million passengers a year.

Larry Ngan and Lib Dem Campaigners on The Leas, Folkestone

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