A new airport at Cliffe is not one of the remaining options, and any kind of estuary option has also been ruled out.
This is the result for which nearly everyone in Medway was hoping: only a very small minority actually wanted an airport to be built here, and they cannot have appreciated the impact that such a monstrosity would have had on everyone's life. Needless to say, many champagne corks were popping on the peninsula soon after the news reached us all via radio and TV.