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Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Lydd Airport Action Group (LAAG). 
LAAG represents people who are opposed to the expansion of Lydd Airport.

Planning Applications

The planning applications for the large scale development of Lydd Airport are now available on Shepway District Council's web site. To view them please click here and then enter the Application Numbers Y06/1647/SH and Y06/1648/SH in the box provided.

The airport has submitted 2 planning applications - one for a runway extension based on 300,000passengers per annum and one for a new terminal based on 500,000 passengers per annum. The airport's true goal, which is openly expressed in the two planning applications, is to achieve passenger numbers of 2million passengers per annum by 2015.

LAAG Response

LAAG has objected to both these planning application. Information on LAAG's response can be viewed by clicking the links below:

LAAG Response to Supplementary Information - November 2007
    Supplementary Information - Summary [106kb file]
    Supplementary Information - Detail [260kb file]
     Comments on Aviation Operational Aspects [537kb file]
    Supplementary Environmental Information [157kb file]

LAAG Response to Planning Application - April 2007

   LAAG response to the planning applications - summary [130kb file]
   LAAG response to the planning applications - detail [417kb file]
   Appendices 1-6 Maps [2,185kb file; note large file]
   Appendix 7  Dr John & Barbara Ismay - Invertebrate Assessment [294kb file]
   Appendix 8  John Large - Nuclear Safety [868kb file]
   Appendix 9  Owen Williams - Transport 1 [120kb file]
                                                        Transport 2 [94kb file]

Letters of Objection 

Please send an objection to Shepway District Council: The closing day for responses was officially March 5th, 2007, but it is still possible to submit objections as this planning application will not be determined for many months due the amount of outstanding information which has yet to be submitted by important statutory consultees.
      Template letter for responding to Shepway District Council

Please join us in lobbing for a Public Inquiry by writing to the Government Office for the South East (GOSE).
      Template letter for responding to GOSE

Online Petition

We have set up an online petition which you view and sign by clicking here.
     [Please note that when signing the petition it asks you for a Confirmation
      code; this code is the slightly askew alpha characters just above the confirmation code box.
      The use of  the code is a safeguard against misuse of the petition]

Flight Path Maps

CAA ILS Flight Path Map
NDB Flight Path Map
Simplified Landing Flight Path Map
CAA Take Off Flight Paths Map
Simplified Takeoff Map
Click on the maps to view them

Noise Reporting

It is important to report the noise of the aircraft over Lydd Airport.

Please go here on how to do this.

Map showing the runway, protected habitat and the
runway's proximity to Greatstone Primary School

Lydd Airport Action Group (LAAG) believes Lydd Airport is not a suitable site for the creation of a regional airport, being surrounded by fragile habitats protected under European and UK laws, located under the largest migratory bird route in the South of England, less than 3 miles from the Dungeness Nuclear Complex and less than 2 and 8 miles respectively from the Lydd and Hythe military ranges.  

There is also no case for a second regional airport in Kent as Kent already has Manston Airport - a large, underutilised regional airport with one of the largest runways in the UK.  

  


Lydd Airport Today

We believe the proposal will lead to the destruction of Romney Marsh in exchange for the creation of a small number of mainly low skilled jobs since Lydd Airport will only be suitable for low cost operators.  

Lydd Airport was acquired by Sheikh Fahad al Athel in 2001.  Since then he has upgraded the facilities associated with the existing runway, but despite this investment and a strong marketing drive to attract new customers, it remains a small local airport used primarily by the local flying club.  

The current planning application (filed December 18th 2006) consists of 2 parts - a 444m runway extension supported by an Environmental Statement based on 300,000 passengers per annum and a new terminal with an Environmental Statement based on 500,000 passengers per annum.


Nature Reserve

  

We believe the Environmental Statement should be based on 2million passengers per annum (2mppa) as this is Lydd Airport’s widely broadcast ambition – to grow to 2mppa by 2015.  

LAAG believes this piecemeal approach to development is highly unsatisfactory as the full consequences of the airport’s development will not be determined at the outset.  .

We are particularly concerned about the runway extension as this will allow large commercial jets such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A319/A320 to operate from the airport, providing the infrastructure for the airport to achieve both its 2mppa medium term ambition and its 6mppa longer term target.

Lydd Airport Action Group (LAAG) was reconstituted in August 2004 when it became obvious the management of Lydd harboured ambitions to become a major regional Airport.

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