All the years I have lived in the south east there have been attempts to build a huge airport off the Thames Estuary. The first one I remember was the Maplin project; then there was a new Southend Pier and Marina and heliport; then there were ideas of building an airport in the sea itself between Essex and Kent. None have come to fruition. Now the latest proposal is to use the Isle of Grain instead.
The proposers seem to have overlooked the fact that the Isle of Grain is the home of a huge liquid petroleum gas terminal and power station. Indeed the Isle of Grain is key to providing power to the whole of the London area.
The idea of an airport in the Thames Estuary has been considered at huge public cost, again and again, over the last 40 years and each and every time dismissed as over-expensive, not cost effective, and a major catastrophe for wildlife and nature and the area. How many more times do we need to review it and come to the same conclusion?

Missing pilot and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart







