Tag seem to be going out of their way to enable everyone to have their say, and may be perfectly genuine in doing so, but watch out for a technique I have seen used succesfully before in the quest for large chunks of Class D airspace. (And wind turbine farms.)
First, the Operator publishes a proposal for the introduction of what appears to many to be an excessive ammount of Class D airspace.
The Operator then carries out an extensive consultation bending over backwards to ensure everyone has the opportunity to air their views by allowing an extended period for submissions, accepting submissions by all known means of communication, and advertising the invitation for submissions widely, even writing to likely objectors to encourage them to participate. This process results in a huge number of objections, and gives the impression that the Operator is a caring, considerate neighbour.
Things then go quiet for a while. In the meantime, the Operator collates and condenses all the objections into around half a dozen main points. This takes some time, which allows most of the original interest to die down.
The Operator then issues 'new' proposals with small changes that it claims address the main points of the objections, and invites further comments. The period allowed for further comments is however, much shorter than the original, and advertised very little. They also require any further comments to be in a particular form, such as in writing.
The result is that very few further comments are received, and the Operator declares it's modified proposals to be a resounding sucess, having clearly addressed all the major objections to the satisfaction of the objectors.
Just me being cynical?
