Southend Airport announces £10million terminal expansion (From Southend Standard)
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Southend Airport announces £10million terminal expansion
5:54pm Wednesday 24th October 2012 in Echo News
Southend Airport announces £10million terminal expansion
SOUTHEND Airport has announced it is about to start work on a new £10million terminal extension with the creation of more than 300 new jobs.
Airport bosses say work will get underway early next month. It will begin with the construction of a new arrivals area expected to be completed by May 2013.
The rest of the 90-metre extension will be ready by Christmas 2013 and will help cater for growing passenger numbers which are expected to top 2 million by 2020.
The extra room will allow for more check-in desks and baggage drop-off points and there will be more space for passengers in security.
Announcing the expansion this afternoon, Airport director Alastair Welch said: “Our aim is to ensure that we deliver a very special level of customer service in Southend and this extension will allow us to ensure we can continue to deliver those high standards as the airport grows.
“This is also further evidence of the role the redeveloped airport is playing in supporting the regeneration of the wider Essex economy.”
Kier has been appointed as contractor for the work.
The departure lounge will also be bigger, giving passengers more room to relax while they wait to board flights. A larger arrivals area will provide better baggage reclaim facilities and a larger immigration area.
Retail and catering facilities will be expanded throughout the terminal in order to provide a much wider range of shops and services available to passengers.
Comments(87)
jolllyboy
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6:39pm Wed 24 Oct 12
M81and
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7:04pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:If you live by an airport surely you expect noise from the airplanes no matter how big or small they are wish people stop moaning as most of the people who are are to old to even use the facilities or benefit from it you had your time now less the rest of us plan for a better future
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
tws123
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7:29pm Wed 24 Oct 12
lucy10
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7:33pm Wed 24 Oct 12
APR
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7:35pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Olivia2847
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7:42pm Wed 24 Oct 12
M81and wrote:Exactly it amazes me that some people cannot see that their once cosy existence is going to have to move forward. The simple answer - move, you must have been aware when you bought your sheltered housing association bungalow that the sleeping giant of an airport would one day awaken and expand .....
jolllyboy wrote:If you live by an airport surely you expect noise from the airplanes no matter how big or small they are wish people stop moaning as most of the people who are are to old to even use the facilities or benefit from it you had your time now less the rest of us plan for a better future
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
Olivia2847
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7:44pm Wed 24 Oct 12
M81and wrote:Exactly .....
jolllyboy wrote:If you live by an airport surely you expect noise from the airplanes no matter how big or small they are wish people stop moaning as most of the people who are are to old to even use the facilities or benefit from it you had your time now less the rest of us plan for a better future
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
Skymaster
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7:54pm Wed 24 Oct 12
APR
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7:55pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Then started a campaign against aircraft noise.
I kid you not !
Olivia2847
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8:10pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Skymaster wrote:Thank you just wait fo Max Impact to wake up ....
What people like Jollyboy don't tell you are the number times that they sleep through all the take-off's! The 'plane' fact is, they want to be disturbed in order that they can complain.
Fallguy9999
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8:10pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:GOOD NEWS FLASH JOLLY BOY.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
I LIVE IN RAYLEIGH AND IT DOES NOT AFFECT MY HOME AT ALL,
AND AS AN EXTRA BRUCIE BONUS, GOT AN AIRPORT CLOSE BY!
HAPPY HAPPY DAYS
pipeman
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8:22pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Max 269
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8:38pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Nebs
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8:49pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Olivia2847
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8:59pm Wed 24 Oct 12
pipeman wrote:Menu D?
I hate BBQ smoke can I have compo..?
another council tax payer
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9:15pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Diannah
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9:24pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Rollocks wrote:I second this comment. 1) because I agree and 2) because I know someone is going to spend the next hour frantically logging in and out of this story in order to create as many thumbs down as possible ;) #getalife
Well done to everyone who has worked so hard. So long have we had a white elephant of an airport We in Leigh are so proud of Stobart ltd and what they have done for our town Me and my family are yet to use the facility's can't wait to land and be back home in less than an hour! Again thank you.
jayman
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10:47pm Wed 24 Oct 12
care to share the evidence old welchy..
EastStBoy
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10:48pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Have you ever seen "Goldfinger"?
You know when James Bond goes for a round of golf with Goldfinger, he wins the game by switching the golf balls, and then just before bidding farewell he puts a tracking device in his car?
007 turns on his tracking device in the old DB5 and then takes off from an airport in pursuit of the dastardly villan?
That airport was Southend Airport. It was pretty big back then. If you've moved to where you are, then you have only yourself to blame.
Congrats to the airport for this expansion, let it bring us jobs, commerce and the luxury of more european flights at our doorstep.
jantone
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10:58pm Wed 24 Oct 12
WE FLEW TO ALICANTE RECENTLY FROM THIS FAB AIRPORT & IT WAS A JOY FROM START TO FINISH!!
LETS HOPE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ASAP!!!
COME ON YOU MOANERS, LETS BE HAVING YOU, & GET INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, & GROW UP!!
jayman
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11:06pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jantone wrote:WRITING IN CAPITALS ALWAYS MAKES YOU SEEM AS IF YOU ARE A PASSIONATE MEMBER OF THE LOCAL AIR TRAVELLING PUBLIC AND A REAL SOUTHEND RESIDENT!!!!!
BRILLIANT NEWS ABOUT THE TERMINAL EXPANSION!!
WE FLEW TO ALICANTE RECENTLY FROM THIS FAB AIRPORT & IT WAS A JOY FROM START TO FINISH!!
LETS HOPE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ASAP!!!
COME ON YOU MOANERS, LETS BE HAVING YOU, & GET INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, & GROW UP!!
ALWAYS END YOUR COMMENT WITH A INFURIATED PROPOSED ACTION FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HOLD YOUR OPINION SUCH AS 'GROW UP.. USE EXCLAMATION MARKS TO HIGHLIGHT THIS!!!!
IN WHAT OTHER TOWN/CITY IN THE WHOLE OF THE UK WOULD YOU FIND SUCH 'APPARENT' SUPPORT FOR A MASS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE SITE..
jayman
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11:22pm Wed 24 Oct 12
78% indifferent, wouldn't care if they flew Sopwith camels to Majorca from Southend or lands end, as long as they can attend the stag do and get tanked up on Stella and jagermeister and dosed up on STD's. The price of the flight will dictate there travel habits and ability to fund the above activity.
21.5% opposed, non airport employees who dislike the idea of being woken up and having general disruption for the needs of the above 78%
0.5% airport employees. will vehemently defend any practices executed by the airport. this may lead them to the dizzying heights of setting up multiple accounts of this website..
Max Impact
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11:24pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
Max Impact
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11:25pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jayman wrote:Like you protesters than jayman/jollyboy
local opinion of the airport.
78% indifferent, wouldn't care if they flew Sopwith camels to Majorca from Southend or lands end, as long as they can attend the stag do and get tanked up on Stella and jagermeister and dosed up on STD's. The price of the flight will dictate there travel habits and ability to fund the above activity.
21.5% opposed, non airport employees who dislike the idea of being woken up and having general disruption for the needs of the above 78%
0.5% airport employees. will vehemently defend any practices executed by the airport. this may lead them to the dizzying heights of setting up multiple accounts of this website..
Max Impact
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11:27pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jayman
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11:27pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:hi max.. im a one man one account poster.. sorry to disappoint..
jayman wrote:Like you protesters than jayman/jollyboy
local opinion of the airport.
78% indifferent, wouldn't care if they flew Sopwith camels to Majorca from Southend or lands end, as long as they can attend the stag do and get tanked up on Stella and jagermeister and dosed up on STD's. The price of the flight will dictate there travel habits and ability to fund the above activity.
21.5% opposed, non airport employees who dislike the idea of being woken up and having general disruption for the needs of the above 78%
0.5% airport employees. will vehemently defend any practices executed by the airport. this may lead them to the dizzying heights of setting up multiple accounts of this website..
thesouthendone
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11:44pm Wed 24 Oct 12
I HOPE THE NEXT STEP WILL BE COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF NEAR BY HOMES TO BUILD A BIGGER RUNWAY,WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT FOR EVERYONE IF PLANES WENT STRAIGHT TO THE US AND AUSTRALIA? BE GREAT FOR HOLIDAYS :-)
SORRY FOR CAPS, BUTTON IS BROKEN!
Olivia2847
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1:26am Thu 25 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:NFI !
Ooops forgot to include Olivia2847 sorry
paintlad3
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8:19am Thu 25 Oct 12
putting southend back on the map again!
Broadwaywatch
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8:24am Thu 25 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:Is that true Max that you have more than one account on here?...if so can you please explain the point in doing so. Thanking you in advance
Ooops forgot to include Olivia2847 sorry
Sir Henry Rawlinson
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9:02am Thu 25 Oct 12
Nebs
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9:06am Thu 25 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:I think the airport agreed to do (independent?) sound monitoring as part of the original agreement. I suppose the results are somewhere online, or just ask them.
jolllyboy wrote:Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
perini
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9:15am Thu 25 Oct 12
j-w
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9:23am Thu 25 Oct 12
Leighdweller
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9:56am Thu 25 Oct 12
BinDipper
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10:09am Thu 25 Oct 12
Leighdweller wrote:That was always bad before the new terminal opened. I'd take out the mini-roundabout and put an exit only traffic light as you come out of the shopping park - that would ease the flow a bit. And you know how we love our traffic lights in Southend ;-)
I'm looking forward to the expanded airport, we use it a lot and will continue to do so. What infuriates me more than anything else (and it's a relatively minor gripe), is the access road by MacDonalds. That's going to need a re-think once things really 'take off'. I popped over the Argos on Saturday and the roundabout was chockablock and causing tailbacks in most directions.
BinDipper
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10:15am Thu 25 Oct 12
10-20 (depending on wind direction) small planes a day, each gone in 20 seconds - seriously, you probably get more noise from the road outside your front door. Go and moan about that...or better still, move to Cumbria or something.
BinDipper
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10:23am Thu 25 Oct 12
Sir Henry Rawlinson wrote:No skullduggery. The dislikers just don't know how to write, they can barely click a button. Facebook generation...
How odd, a majority of posts supporting the expansion, however, an Echo-record number of dislikes attached to these that even Lastlaugh (or whatever he's called today) couldn't even dream of receiving. A little skullduggery on the go perchance...
j-w
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10:43am Thu 25 Oct 12
Tel478
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10:54am Thu 25 Oct 12
lucy10 wrote:gowing? going ;-)
when the new football ground gowing to take off
Southend Andy
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12:17pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Southend Andy
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12:19pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:next time you have a bbq I'll sue you for smoke damage.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
I bet you don't care about flying over other peoples homes when you jet off.
Wait for the normal saen comment I don't fly
Southend Andy
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12:27pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jayman wrote:& do you know how sad it is to respond like it?
jantone wrote: BRILLIANT NEWS ABOUT THE TERMINAL EXPANSION!! WE FLEW TO ALICANTE RECENTLY FROM THIS FAB AIRPORT & IT WAS A JOY FROM START TO FINISH!! LETS HOPE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ASAP!!! COME ON YOU MOANERS, LETS BE HAVING YOU, & GET INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, & GROW UP!!WRITING IN CAPITALS ALWAYS MAKES YOU SEEM AS IF YOU ARE A PASSIONATE MEMBER OF THE LOCAL AIR TRAVELLING PUBLIC AND A REAL SOUTHEND RESIDENT!!!!! ALWAYS END YOUR COMMENT WITH A INFURIATED PROPOSED ACTION FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HOLD YOUR OPINION SUCH AS 'GROW UP.. USE EXCLAMATION MARKS TO HIGHLIGHT THIS!!!! IN WHAT OTHER TOWN/CITY IN THE WHOLE OF THE UK WOULD YOU FIND SUCH 'APPARENT' SUPPORT FOR A MASS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE SITE..
Southend Andy
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12:34pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jayman wrote:The jayman opioion & stats. Here we ago again.
local opinion of the airport. 78% indifferent, wouldn't care if they flew Sopwith camels to Majorca from Southend or lands end, as long as they can attend the stag do and get tanked up on Stella and jagermeister and dosed up on STD's. The price of the flight will dictate there travel habits and ability to fund the above activity. 21.5% opposed, non airport employees who dislike the idea of being woken up and having general disruption for the needs of the above 78% 0.5% airport employees. will vehemently defend any practices executed by the airport. this may lead them to the dizzying heights of setting up multiple accounts of this website..
Put up & shut up with a great local airport. You are not on the flight path are you? You don't live near the airport in Shoeburyness.
Not all of us fly out of Southend airport to get tanked up on beer & get as you put it STD's. I use Southend airport as is my local airport & I do a lot of work abroad. Why go to Heathslow, Gnatwick, Standard (joke names as I have frieds that work there)
I can he home in 20 mins after landing. love it.
BASILBRUSH
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1:05pm Thu 25 Oct 12
BinDipper
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1:12pm Thu 25 Oct 12
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Imagine if this was in your backyard? Then you'd have something to moan about...
Ageing Commuter
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1:14pm Thu 25 Oct 12
bongking
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1:23pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Olivia2847 wrote:yes i live in rayleigh to !! good the airport is only 6 miles away, not far to go for my holidays travel.
Skymaster wrote:Thank you just wait fo Max Impact to wake up ....
What people like Jollyboy don't tell you are the number times that they sleep through all the take-off's! The 'plane' fact is, they want to be disturbed in order that they can complain.
APR
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1:41pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Rochford Rob
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1:52pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:You're in Leigh? I've stated here before no one lives closer than I to the airport - it's at the end of my garden (literally). 'Whoosh' and the planes are gone. Southend Road is far noisier - and CONSTANT.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
The smaller planes are noisy I'll admit but affect my BBQs? Hardly.
Exciting times for the town in my book. Who wants to schlepp all the way to Gatwicj, Stansted or Thiefrow? Naah, a ten minute stroll will do for me.
As for decibels - it was all published a long time ago (if you care to look)
j-w
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2:03pm Thu 25 Oct 12
southendshrimper
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2:51pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Time to pack for a nice family holiday me thinks.
Oh jayman nice jayman facts who did you ask your own family?
Max Impact
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3:12pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Broadwaywatch wrote:Nope just this one, I dont have multiple personality disorder like some of the posters on here.
Max Impact wrote:Is that true Max that you have more than one account on here?...if so can you please explain the point in doing so. Thanking you in advance
Ooops forgot to include Olivia2847 sorry
The people that have multi log in's like to argue with themselfs or post comments to cause arguments, and they like to cause distrust and generally disrupt the flow of real comments.
Max Impact
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3:17pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Nebs wrote:Yes the airport have independent monitoring,
Max Impact wrote:I think the airport agreed to do (independent?) sound monitoring as part of the original agreement. I suppose the results are somewhere online, or just ask them.
jolllyboy wrote:Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
Yes we in Leigh are most grateful for our 6.30am wake up call and our 11.30pm message to go to bed. Our BBQ conversations ruined with the decibels which are higher than that we were told. But then we weren't told it all anyway were we.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
I was talking to jollyboy directly in regard to his statement that the aircraft operating out of the airport were breaking the permitted levels of noise that were set down in the new operating procedures.
He must have had the recording equipment set up to make it as a stated fact.
Sir Henry Rawlinson
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3:19pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Max Impact
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3:34pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Sir Henry Rawlinson wrote:This thumbs up/down thing is odd, will not show up on on the lap top will (somethimes) on the mobile!
They're still at it with the 'dislike' votes. Perhaps this is some madcap Jayman attempt to try and subliminally influence thought processes on the airport. Still, I've never had a double figures negative score before and, you know what, it feels liberating in a strange kind of way so thanks guys.
Those that keep clicking like or dislike are sad fools, shame its so easy to cheat the system.
Broadwaywatch
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3:38pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:Thank you Max....that clears that up.....oh by the way did that wretched aero engine from your shared private plane turn up on your doorstep like you said you feared it would?
Broadwaywatch wrote:Nope just this one, I dont have multiple personality disorder like some of the posters on here.
Max Impact wrote:Is that true Max that you have more than one account on here?...if so can you please explain the point in doing so. Thanking you in advance
Ooops forgot to include Olivia2847 sorry
The people that have multi log in's like to argue with themselfs or post comments to cause arguments, and they like to cause distrust and generally disrupt the flow of real comments.
jolllyboy
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5:03pm Thu 25 Oct 12
thesouthendone
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6:16pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:your very lucky getting such a nice view of the planes!
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
jantone
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6:19pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Nebs
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6:30pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jantone wrote:That's all well and good, but why do you write in capitals?
TO THE BLOKE WHO STATES "WHY DO I WRITE IN CAPITALS? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS, HE CAN'T SEE FURTHER THAN HIS OWN NOSE THAT THIS EXPANSION CAN ONLY DO WONDERS FOR OUR TOWN!!! IF HE ISN'T PROUD TO LIVE HERE, LET HIM MOVE TO OUTER MONGOLIER!!
Max Impact
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7:05pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:Jollyboy it is impossible manipulate the decibel level of soundwaves.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
Many aircraft are fitted with hush kits to reduce noise but once the soundwave leaves the engine it is physically impossible to manipulate them in any way shape or form, this is first grade knowledge...
However a new working theory to use sound to disperse sound is being tested, it is still in its very early stages but things look positive.
I am still waiting for a response to my previous comment:
Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
Why move under the flight path in the first place?
southendshrimper
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7:46pm Thu 25 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:What would you rather fly in & out of the airport? Todays modern planes or the onesfrom ten years ago or so with the noisy 707's?
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
Mannersway
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8:48pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Looking forward to seeing the difference. Fantastic being able to travel from 5mins down the road.
Very proud of our Southend Airport, Well Done everyone. Keep up the Good Work.
southend_Dave
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8:36am Fri 26 Oct 12
Yes you see and hear the planes but they are hardly flying over every 10 minutes.
As for ruining BBQ's they take 30 seconds to fly over every few hours. The most I saw in a BBQ this year was 2, so affected about 1 minute of a 4 hour BBQ. Is that really so terrible!?
Really dont have any issue with them at all and the Airport is a positive for this town.
If it ever gets to a plane every 15 minutes then maybe Ill change my mind but people need to look at the bigger picture for a change.
r6keith
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9:49am Fri 26 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:If you wanted to experience real noise , you should have gone to the SEAN meetings when every 5 minutes during the meeting they would play an extended recording of a plane flying over.The true experience is no where as loud or long lasting as that was. I can clearly remember Blenhiem School was used as part of the antis big arguments. But bottom line was not this school and most of the houses around it built during the end of the era of noisy slow low flying fuel spitting Carvairs and BA111's ? .Sort of defeats any noise argument.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
disenfranchisedpast
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9:53am Fri 26 Oct 12
jolllyboy wrote:And i can tell you it isn't.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
But unless one of us fronts up with some evidence, both our points of view mean precisely b*gger all
Max Impact
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10:08am Fri 26 Oct 12
r6keith wrote:Seriously please tell me that you are joking, did they really do that....
jolllyboy wrote:If you wanted to experience real noise , you should have gone to the SEAN meetings when every 5 minutes during the meeting they would play an extended recording of a plane flying over.The true experience is no where as loud or long lasting as that was. I can clearly remember Blenhiem School was used as part of the antis big arguments. But bottom line was not this school and most of the houses around it built during the end of the era of noisy slow low flying fuel spitting Carvairs and BA111's ? .Sort of defeats any noise argument.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
Suppose all those attending (apart from yourself) fell for it, hook line and sinker!
It is actions such as that, that make the anti protest such a joke.
Max Impact
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10:13am Fri 26 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:Jollyboy:
jolllyboy wrote:Jollyboy it is impossible manipulate the decibel level of soundwaves.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
Many aircraft are fitted with hush kits to reduce noise but once the soundwave leaves the engine it is physically impossible to manipulate them in any way shape or form, this is first grade knowledge...
However a new working theory to use sound to disperse sound is being tested, it is still in its very early stages but things look positive.
I am still waiting for a response to my previous comment:
Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
Why move under the flight path in the first place?
I'm still waiting, as are many other I would guess.
Have to go to work now so probably can't replay as quick as I would like too, got a a day chained to a desk doing Health & Safety Risk Assessments...
r6keith
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11:15am Fri 26 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:yes they did for a while the lauch meeeting into Rochford a good example, I also endorse what you say about things like this making the anti airport protest a joke. I have always supported the airport and its expansion but I have also listened to the points of view from the anti side, but found the points of view to be exagerated or with out any form of concrete evidence.
r6keith wrote:Seriously please tell me that you are joking, did they really do that.... Suppose all those attending (apart from yourself) fell for it, hook line and sinker! It is actions such as that, that make the anti protest such a joke.jolllyboy wrote: As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!If you wanted to experience real noise , you should have gone to the SEAN meetings when every 5 minutes during the meeting they would play an extended recording of a plane flying over.The true experience is no where as loud or long lasting as that was. I can clearly remember Blenhiem School was used as part of the antis big arguments. But bottom line was not this school and most of the houses around it built during the end of the era of noisy slow low flying fuel spitting Carvairs and BA111's ? .Sort of defeats any noise argument.
tophatdt
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12:12pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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4:32pm Fri 26 Oct 12
tophatdt wrote:are they ever gong to get that Vulcan operational?
Good news....Easyjet have announced two new destinations from Southend starting next summer......Berlin, and beautiful Krakow. Great news. A fourth Airbus will be based at our airport.
Would love to see and hear that glorious piece of aviation history soaring over Essex skies
j-w
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4:37pm Fri 26 Oct 12
mrttev63
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5:01pm Fri 26 Oct 12
APR
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5:32pm Fri 26 Oct 12
j-w wrote:No chance whatsoever of it flying.
Never. They will get it ground running but without multi millions (or even with) I doubt it will fly again.
Next year is also the last time you will get to see a Vulcan in the air, as XH558 will be grounded permanently at the end of 2013.
I do hope it's gets to the Southend airshow this year.
tophatdt
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6:49pm Fri 26 Oct 12
The news came from an Easyjet employee in scheduling and he posted it on pPrune forum. Stansted will gain a new A320 for longer flights like Egypt, whilst the replacement A319 will operate from Southend to Berlin and Krakow.
Wethersfield
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8:03pm Fri 26 Oct 12
I can' t understand why LSA have to wait until late 2013 before starting the consultation process on the controlled airspace application. See statement on their website. It will improve safety above us and with the number of flights increasing surely it should start right away
Olivia2847
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9:35am Sat 27 Oct 12
Max Impact
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9:01pm Sat 27 Oct 12
Max Impact wrote:Jollyboy: I am still waiting, if you do not have the recordings why not just come out and say that you don't, or would that mean you would have to admit you have zero proof of your statement you put over as a fact.
Max Impact wrote:Jollyboy:
jolllyboy wrote:Jollyboy it is impossible manipulate the decibel level of soundwaves.
As Southend Council is arranging for the report on the nuisance complaints for the airport I hardly think that is independent. It does not take much to calibrate the decibels of noise and i can tell you it is more than that told to us that it would be near Blenheim School and where I live!
Many aircraft are fitted with hush kits to reduce noise but once the soundwave leaves the engine it is physically impossible to manipulate them in any way shape or form, this is first grade knowledge...
However a new working theory to use sound to disperse sound is being tested, it is still in its very early stages but things look positive.
I am still waiting for a response to my previous comment:
Have you actually recorded the sound levels on multiple calibrated devices and had them verified by independent observers, if not than your statement that the noise levels are above permitted levels is irrelevant and could not be used as sporting everdence in any statement made in any claim against the airport.
If you have done the above please publish the full technical readout that the divice would have printed out also please publish the certificate of calibration and the contact details of the independent observers.
Thank You and Advance.
Why move under the flight path in the first place?
I'm still waiting, as are many other I would guess.
Have to go to work now so probably can't replay as quick as I would like too, got a a day chained to a desk doing Health & Safety Risk Assessments...
If you have the recordings I expect to see them for every day for at least a month to give a fully comparable account of all the movements, I would also expect to see the full calibration certificate and independent observers details.
I will not hold my breath waiting.
Devils Advocate
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10:26pm Sat 27 Oct 12
If I could just pop in the fact that, here in beautiful Basildon, aircraft fly over from Heathrow, Stansted, City and they are quiet enough that you kind of relax to their sound.
However, sometime after 2:00am Basvegas residents begin making their way to their second homes. As they stroll home through the canyon that is Ghyllgrove the gently sleeping community, many of whom have to rise at around 6 am for work,get treated to foul-mouthed youngsters intent on letting the residents know what a wonderful time they have had and how they do not give a "F---" about any old git who pleads for peace because " They should be effin dead anyway"
I would rather sleep by the last row of lights at the take off end of Southend's runway than suffer the stupendous noise of these layabout louts.
I wonder if Eddie could extend his runway right over Bas Vegas?
beppo1
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11:42pm Sat 27 Oct 12
beppo1
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11:44pm Sat 27 Oct 12
denly couldn't spell!
maywood
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tophatdt
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12:36pm Sun 28 Oct 12
mrttev63
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12:25pm Mon 29 Oct 12
openspace
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9:20am Wed 31 Oct 12
Their website continues to publish large quantities of blatant lies, fortunately easily disproved.
There are no "facts" on their website that stand even the briefest of scrutiny. They are like an itch that you continually scratch but won't go away. Very annoying, unlike the noise from aircraft which is minimal and very infrequent.
Rollocks says...
6:34pm Wed 24 Oct 12