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Cleared for take-off: Manston DCO is granted

After more than five long years of detailed scrutiny, RSP is delighted to confirm that it has finally received the redetermined Development Consent Order, from the Department for Transport, for its plans to invest up to £500 million in the potential of Manston Airport, in Kent.

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NASA award-winning HyPoint to test Hydrogen Fuel Cell-equipped aircraft at Manston

HyPoint, the company developing zero carbon-emission turbo air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility, today announced a partnership with RiverOak Strategic Partners which will enable HyPoint’s aviation customers to leverage the airport’s existing infrastructure, as well as planned new testing zones, at Manston to evaluate HyPoint’s hydrogen fuel cell system in their new or retrofitted aircraft. Both companies are committed to furthering the aviation decarbonisation efforts outlined in the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.

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RSP responds to New Economics Foundation report

 It is not clear where the Manston emissions-cost calculations, quoted on Kent Live (“Taxpayers could foot £3.8 billion bill for Manston Airport carbon clean-up”), have come from - given that Manston was not even included in the report upon which the story is based....

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RSP highlights concerns over protracted and misdirected redetermination process in scathing response to the Arup Assessor’s report

In a covering letter to its response to the Arup Assessor’s report, as part of the redetermination process for the Manston Airport DCO, RiverOak Strategic Partners has set out its concerns over not only the content of the Arup Report, but also the “untimetabled and protracted” process of redetermination that the Secretary of State for Transport has presided over.

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RSP Manston Airport helps kids have fun and stay fed over half term

RSP Manston Airport has partnered with Ramsgate Football Club to create a unique half term activities camp for 120 youngsters, which begins tomorrow.

The camp, which runs alongside the club’s other half term activities programmes, is open to all children but is provided free to youngsters who are eligible for the Government’s Free School Meals funding. It will offer a wide range of activities including football, crafts, and street dance, as well as airport-themed activities, flight simulators and opportunities to meet real life pilots.

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RSP brands Manston Assessor’s report “amateur and poorly constructed”

Having read the Assessor’s report – which didn’t take long – it is clear that it is an amateur and poorly constructed report. Setting aside the numerous grammatical errors and typos – not to mention the reference at para 1.3  to a section on the sixth Carbon Budget that the author has then apparently forgotten to even write – the content of this report does not address the broader strategic need case set out in the Secretary of State’s original decision letter and is little more than a by-the-numbers review of the Examining Authority’s previous report, and series of opaque assertions using pre-2019 data, with little or no detailed analysis or reasoning behind any of the conclusions drawn.

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