Is Sheerness going to become a busier port?

Thamesport, built on the former site of the Isle of Grain refinery on the west bank of the Medway, rather than the Isle of Sheppey, was used iirc for construction of Channel Tunnel bits; it has excellent road and rail links and it isn't busy these days...

Peel Ports (sheerness) and Hutchison Ports UK (Thamesport) are rivals in running ports in sundry places, and both Sheerness and Thamesport have lost business lately so we can expect these two to slug it out.

(It's nice not to be using my real name, here...)
 
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Getting "stuff" from either of these places to Heathrow would be really beneficial to transport in the southern M25 corridor... It woud be far more sensible somewhere in the industrial rail connected areas west... Didcot/Swindon/Bristol for example...
 
Mucho whining letters in local rag about how Peel Ports will destroy the idyllic rural nature of the island with its selfish interest in producing jobs and employment at the expence of a holiday destination that so obviously bears comparison with the best in the world.
The fact any of the extra traffic generated will be restricted to the main route out of the port and over that nicenew bridge which was paid for by the rest of us, seems to have escaped the NIMBYS.
The amount of crap thrown out of car windows by the residents and visitors on the road to the prisons and Leysdown gives a real indication of just much the enviroment is valued. :)
 
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Gladys said:
Getting "stuff" from either of these places to Heathrow would be really beneficial to transport in the southern M25 corridor... It woud be far more sensible somewhere in the industrial rail connected areas west... Didcot/Swindon/Bristol for example...
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Would have been better to build a new airport in Kent with new links betweem Essex and Kent... but the U.k public sectir only does what was done before and achieves nothing. Sheerness will continue to stay poor. West Lodon will get even more congested making it impossible to get from Kent/Essex to the west country.
 
Sheppey or Grain would have been ideal, approach and landing with nobody under the flight path but few seals.
However which VIP CEO wants to announce to his admirers that he will of course be flying out of
"Sheerness International" :)
Neat for me, could just leap over the back fence and be in the dept lounge a few seconds later.:)
 
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oldgit said:
Sheppey or Grain would have been ideal, approach and landing with nobody under the flight path but few seals.
However which VIP CEO wants to announce to his admirers that he will of course be flying out of
"Sheerness International" :)
Neat for me, could just leap over the back fence and be in the dept lounge a few seconds later.:)
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Strikes me that Grain is also attractive for a new nuke power station - all the powerline infratructure already in place... wouldn't go well with an airport though...
 
Gladys said:
The problem is the distance of most of the country's populace from Sheerness....
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And that was all considered carefully in the 70's when a decision was taken to build London's new airport at Stansted. It started with one terminal building (designed to be expandable) and one runway with the clear intention of adding as demand grew.

However, this was somehow forgotten about and we saw the ridiculous addition of terminals 4 and 5 to the overcrowded urban site of Heathrow and when somebody remembered Stansted an enquiry was held resulting in a promise of no second runway at Stansted. Since then, local authorities around Stansted have granted consent for building of thousands of new houses immediately around the airport making it fairly unrealistic to expand it further.


If we can learn one ting from the French, it should be how to implement major national infrastructure projects. Charles de Gaulle airport and thousands of kilometres of TGV track have been built there while we bicker endlessly about where to build such essentials. The usual problem encountered in routing TGV tracks was villages that it should run through their territory, preferably with a station!

Peter.
 
Added to which Stansted is inaccessible if you live to the West as the roads go N&S but not West towards Milton Keynes, Northampton, Snorbens Hemel, BEdford Etc.
 
all my mates fought tooth and nail to try and prevent the channel railway link going along the foot of the North Downs, now of course they use it to go their gites and little places in Tuscany.
...so convenient darling and no need to drive to that awful airport at Gatwick :)
 
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