Half a victory for the peasants
LETTERS
From James L. Barry, Simon Bewlay, T. R. Tweedy, P. S. A. Edwards, Sir Denis Brogan, Pamela Lady Otis/ow, John Rowan Wilson, Professor H. C. McLaren, Harold S. Priestley, Andrew C. Bennett, M. B. Harvey and Stella M. Drink wager, Cdr Robin Bousfield RN, the Rev Arthur N. Ainsworth, Robert Hughes, C. Leo Berry. E. M. Behrens.
Sir: Please accept my thanks for this editorial (7 March). Until a year ago, I lived in South- end-on-Sea, and taught in a local school. Both at work and at home my life was disturbed by aircraft noise. The school was directly in the flight-path of Southend Airport. When jets be- gan to use the airport. I sold my house and moved to Yorkshire.
I would like to make two points: 1. The erection of a third London airport at Foulness would mean the virtual closing of Southend Airport before it has grown any big- ger. (At present it is not up to modern interna- tional standard, and money must be spent if it is not superseded by Foulness.) Southend-on- Sea is the biggest town in Essex and the planes fly right over it, very low and noisily. So an air- port at Foulness would end aircraft noise over a large centre of population where it is already a nuisance. This is an additional benefit if Foul- ness is chosen.
4. There is a danger that increased use of existing aerodromes will be permitted, as has happened at Stansted, so that, although new projects are not sanctioned, noise nuisance nevertheless grows. I hope you, sir, as well as Parliament, will keep this under observation. James 1. Barry 116 Columbus Ravine, Scarborough, Yorkshire
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