RiverOak acquires Manston Airport from Stone Hill

Stone Hill Park has sold its interests in the defunct Manston Airport site to RiverOak Strategic Partners. Contracts for the former airport, which closed in May 2014 were exchanged on 2 July and completion of the purchase is expected to take place early next week. The site is subject to a Development Consent Order, examining […]

Make your views about RiverOak’s Manston proposals known

The representation period to examine the Development Consent Order of Manston Airport has opened today (3 September), giving interested parties a chance to make their views on the proposals known. RiverOak Strategic Partners is proposing to reopen the airport as a cargo hub with a capacity for 12,000 movements per year, with some passenger and […]

Manston plans withdrawn ‘temporarily’, new ones due soon

The company behind the plan to reopen Manston Airport has withdrawn its Development Consent Order application that had been submitted with the Planning Inspectorate. RiverOak Strategic Partners submitted 63 documents totalling almost 11,000 pages of proposals and plans to reopen Manston Airport as a freight hub with complimentary passenger and general aviation services to the […]

Reopening Manston “very unlikely to be financially viable”

Manston Airport is “very unlikely to be financially viable in the longer term and almost certainly not possible in the period to 2031” according to a report by aviation industry experts, AviaSolutions. The airport, which closed in May 2014 has been subject to a long running campaign to reopen it, with US investment firm RiverOak […]