{"id":2248,"date":"2009-05-25T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2009-05-25T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T19:51:11","slug":"airport-expansion-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/airport-expansion-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Expansion U-Turn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very significant story in the Echo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> EXPANSION plans for Southend Airport could be in jeopardy, as council bosses are set to abandon its support for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Informed sources say there have been thousands of objections to the Joint Area Action Plan consultation, which proposes a major expansion of the airport, together with the runway extension across Eastwoodbury Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Protest meetings in Eastwood and Leigh have been packed with objectors worried about noise levels and night flying if the airport is allowed to expand.<\/p>\n<p>Bosses at Southend and Rochford Councils backed the airport?s expansion plans, but now following a second consultation, sources are claiming it would be ?political suicide? to support it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/local_news\/southend\/4394797.Southend_Airport_expansion_plan_could_be_in_jeopardy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very significant story in the Echo: EXPANSION plans for Southend Airport could be in jeopardy, as council bosses are set to abandon its support for the scheme. 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