Robert Marshall-Andrews

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No Airport @ Cliffe: RSPB parliamentary lobby

Bob Marshall-Andrews said, "The RSPB has organised a parliamentary lobby and rally which I will be addressing on 29th October. The event is timed to coincide with ministers making crucial decisions in advance of publication of the Aviation White Paper. I will meet with RSPB volunteers and campaigners and accompany them to the House of Commons after my speech."

The details of the Lobby on Wednesday 29th October are as follows.

The RSPB lobbyists will start arriving at RUSI (Royal United Services Institute on Whitehall) from about 11.30am for 12 o'clock talks in main hall by Graham Wynne, RSPB Chief Executive, and Robert Marshall-Andrews, MP for Medway.

Following lunch from 1.30pm onwards, until a little after 2pm, press interviews with Graham Wynne and Bob Marshall-Andrews, whilst RSPB Members lobby their MP's.

Lobbyists will be asking their MP's to sign an Early Day Motion (EDM) on their behalf.

The EDM will be tabled by Bob Marshall-Andrews later this week. The draft text of the EDM is as follows.

Airport proposal for Cliffe in Kent

That this House believes that the proposal for a new airport at Cliffe in north Kent would be one of the most environmentally damaging infrastructure developments ever seen in the UK; notes that it would destroy sites designated as Special Protection Area, Ramsar Site, Special Area of Conservation, Site of Special Scientific Interest, National Nature Reserve and Environmentally Sensitive Area; further notes that it would have a damaging impact on local communities, destroying over 1,000 residential properties; believes that it would not attract sufficient funding from the private sector to cover its construction costs or attract carriers away from existing airports; urges the Government to reject the case for a second hub airport in the South East; to take a more sustainable view of aviation by managing demand, and therefore calls on the Government to reject the Cliffe option when it publishes its air transport White Paper.