London's Third Airport?
SIR,—In his letter on Stansted Airport (Spectator, December 17); Mr. Peter S. Smith writes: 'To attempt decentralisation of international airports and aviation before dispersing manufacturing and ser- vice industry is to put the cart before the horse.' But surely to increase very substantially the present concentration of aviation in the South-East, while simultaneously encouraging and subsidising the dis- persal of industry, is to set the horse galloping off in one direction while pushing the cart in another?
It is no doubt possible to argue either for dispersal or against it; but it is not possible to argue both for it and against it at the same time. The flaw in the Stansted Airport proposal is that it involves the Government in doing precisely this, and your article was quite right to point it out.
ALFRED PYNE
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