Herne Bay Airshow 2018 - Cancelled

News on all the seaside airshows up and down the country in one forum
Post Reply
User avatar
boff180
UKAR Staff
Posts: 9830
Joined: Sun 31 Aug 2008, 2:28 pm
Location: Solihull
Contact:

Herne Bay Airshow 2018 - Cancelled

Post by boff180 »

http://www.kentlive.news/whats-on/whats ... st-1025734

The event is now a "bridge too far" due to new regulations, local authority requirements and running costs for a volunteer team to organise.

User avatar
Exiler
Posts: 527
Joined: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 4:46 pm

Re: Herne Bay Airshow 2018 - Cancelled

Post by Exiler »

That's a shame, was a nice show last year, interesting location which brought a lot of childhood memories back.

User avatar
Dan O'Hagan
Posts: 2279
Joined: Wed 13 Apr 2016, 6:05 pm

Re: Herne Bay Airshow 2018 - Cancelled

Post by Dan O'Hagan »

Another one bites the dust.

The outlook, at least for civilian events, gets no less bleak.

Hopefully 2018 will see the right resolution to Shoreham, and perhaps the first green shoots of sanity.

Witchcraft24
Posts: 134
Joined: Mon 24 Oct 2016, 7:29 pm

Re: Herne Bay Airshow 2018 - Cancelled

Post by Witchcraft24 »

As with Dawlish, this show was run by volunteers who have become exhausted by the need to raise sponsorship and funding with little input from the local council, despite huge benefits to the local economy.

The reality now is that all large seaside events are backed by the support of their local councils. This is not a Shoreham issue, it is a Government spending issue. Council budgets are becoming tighter (see South Ayrshire Council and the Scottish Air Show as an example) and this may put more seaside events at risk. There have been substantial increases in costs for policing and security following the Nice, Westminster Bridge and Berlin attacks. You cannot pin everything on the events of August 2015.

Post Reply