Thames Estuary Airport a major International hub at Cliffe which would link in with the HS1 line through Kent to St Pancras. The Cameron government was committed to a full Aviation Review and a scoping study was released in March 2011. The "Marinair" proposal was put forward in the 1990s, in which an airport would be built on an offshore artificial island in the Thames estuary, north east of the Isle of Sheppey. When the proposal was put forward again in the government's 2002 consultation, it was rejected on the grounds of insufficient information and prohibitive expense. The Marinair plans had been developed
Exe Estuary Exe Estuary The Exe estuary is an estuary on the south coast of Devon, England. The estuary starts just to the south () of the city of Exeter, and extends south for approximately eight miles to meet the English Channel (). The estuary is a ria and so is larger than would be the case given the size of the River Exe, the main river feeding into the estuary. On the east shore (from north to south) are the town of Topsham, the villages of Exton and Lympstone and at the estuary mouth, the seaside resort of Exmouth. Opposite Exmouth