Wot! No noise monitors or air monitors at Manston?
Our politicians wouldn’t allow the removal of safety measures from Manston would they? Nor the civil servants? These are the people supposed to both represent and protect us aren’t they? Then how can it be that in 10 years of Manston as a normal commercial airport the requirement for mobile noise monitors has never been provided? The public have requested them. KIACC and the parish councils have requested them. Penny Button of TDC is even photographed with a hand-held mobile noise monitor checking noise levels in the local Tesco. Yet Brian White and our local councillors have never provided one mobile noise monitor in 10 years. They aren’t expensive. A few hundreds of pounds. A few thousand if you wanted a top of the range one, or a few of them to take noise readings. The reality is that mobile noise monitors would be deployed to the towns and the readings taken on a regular basis. As with Manston and other airports you could move them to the wrong positions or fudge the data for a whi...