Madam,

Spaceport at Llanbedr? Was Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns really suggesting that “we have the right geography” at Llanbedr for a commercial spaceport?

I am sure that his office will possess draft geographic plans for any possible Llanbedr-based vertical or horizontal commercial spaceport, and that these will be based on the plans of those spaceports existing or under construction around the world.

As such, his office will be aware that the geographic area needed for a commercial spaceport, capable of being economic on a global scale, would swallow up much of Llanbedr, Pensarn, Dyffryn Ardudwy and Llandanwg.

The A496 would need to be diverted more than a kilometre inland further away from the spaceport perimeter and the Cambrian coast railway would terminate no further north than Talybont.

Of course, Mr Cairns and many House of Commons colleagues were willing to vote for the compulsory purchase of huge numbers of homes and community buildings at Heathrow in order to create a third runway for global air traffic. So similar forcible eviction of people living in distant Meirionnydd, in order to satisfy further global air traffic aspirations, may not concern them.

The A’Mhoine Peninsula site in Scotland presented a largely uninhabited geographic area 10 kilometres by seven, which is more than twice the area of the Llanbedr Shell Island-centred site.

From a humanity viewpoint, despite its remoteness, A’Mhoine was a compelling UK choice.

Yours etc,

Tom Brooks, Borth-y-Gest, Porthmadog.

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