Sid Cumberland is standing as the Lib Dem candidate for Rochford West and as such was asked by some residents there about his views on the HAAP (plan for Hockley Town Centre) and the JAAP (plan for Southend Airport). This is his response:<\/p>\n
“My views are (briefly) as follows:
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\nJAAP: a thriving airport is good for local residents in principle, as it provides high-quality skilled jobs for our families. BUT: we need to look at the whole picture – for example, how do we cope with additional traffic on our roads, how do we make sure that the airport is a good neighbour (I’m thinking of night flights etc).
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\nHAAP: I am less enthusiastic about HAAP. It seems to me that too much is being proposed – again, without adequate thought being given to infrastructure.
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\nIn both cases I think we need to make sure that the voices of local people are heard loud and clear. And I would say, as a good Liberal, that we would have fought much more strongly against the government pressures which drive these proposals. The current local councillors seem to just wring their hands and say ‘There’s nothing we can do – the government says we have to do this’. (In which case, I’m inclined to ask why we need local councillors at all!)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sid Cumberland is standing as the Lib Dem candidate for Rochford West and as such was asked by some residents there about his views on the HAAP (plan for Hockley Town Centre) and the JAAP (plan for Southend Airport). This is his response: “My views are (briefly) as follows: JAAP: a thriving airport is good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,9,47],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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