Runway work is backed by planners
Friday 14th October 2011, 2:30PM BST.
PLANNERS have recommended that the £80.4m. airport project be approved despite the fears of residents, environmentalists and parishes.
Officers will present their case at an open planning meeting on Tuesday for the most expensive project ever undertaken by the States to get the go ahead.
But the proposal will come up against a welter of opposition, including a petition organised on behalf of people in parishes near the airport and the legal threat of a judicial review from Deputy Shane Langlois if the department does not justify the legality of an approval.
However, planners said the application’s environmental statement was sufficient to address many concerns.
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I’d rather have seen the approval of repairs to the Torteval shed.
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No surprise there then.
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Hmmm not listening to the people then Environment!!!
I shall remember that the next time you are on my case like when some pathetic so-and-so sent in photos of my “illegal” windows when you said to me “we apologise for the inconveniece sir but we have to take into consideration comments from the public”.
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This project hasn’t raised nearly the same tempo of protest as the incinerator did (By the way hasn’t it all gone quiet over there .. are we still in ‘blank piece of paper mode?’)
If the runway objectors sit quietly fuming at the open planning meeting on Tuesday then it will remain low tempo .. which will subsequently be interpreted as a general acceptance of the plans by the PSD spin machine
If however you want to make some headlines for your cause stand up at the meeting by way of a peaceful protest and politely ask a question.You will be told that questions from the floor are not permissible but if you persist,followed by someone else and then another what can they do?
They will probably warn you that you,and the others, will have to leave the room but if you don’t do so voluntarily they will have to resort to physically removing the questioners using either their own staff,or Beau Sejour security or calling the Police
If that does happen then of course you must cooperate fully whilst others in the audience stand up and ask their own questions
Their only other choice is to close the meeting and reconvene in private which still gives you the headlines if that is what you are seeking
It might also have the additional benefit of speeding up the process of actually allowing public questions to be raised at future public ‘open’ meetings
The key is to keep it peaceful
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