Note - Click on any link in the right-hand column of the article you are interested in to read more. The Website has all the latest information on the main issues facing Sellindge - please note pre-July 2011 information to these topics can be found lower down (in the Sections prefixed with the word 'old'). A new Section (Section 8) entitled 'Kent Mineral and Waste Sites Development - Consultation' has been added. The most recent information is:
Section 3 - Otterpool Waste treatment
1) Update/Reply from Environmental Agency to Susan Carey email re Environmental Permit application from Countrystyle Recycling - 19 October 2011
Section 4 - Wind Farm
1) Two Wind Anemometer Masts erected Harringe Brooks - 20 October 2011
2) Harringe Brooks Wind Anemometer Mast - 20 October 2011
Section 6 - Shepway - Housing/Village Green
1) Parish Council response to Shepway LDF and Sellindge Masterplan
Section 8 - Kent Mineral and Waste Sites Development - Consultation
1) Mineral and Waste Sites Development Plan Documents - Supplementary Options Consultation commencing on Monday 24 October 2011
Section 9 - Correspondence including replies from KCC
1) Letter to Mr Cameron - People must not have policies forced on them from above - 7 October 2011
2) Abolish the County Councils? - 9 october 2011
3) Reorganise local government? - response from Eric Pickles - 11 October 2011
1) Section 1 - Home page
2) Village Meeting - 1st Sep 2011
- 01) The latest on the 4 issues affecting Sellindge
- 02) Lorry park and turbines are 'major threats to village life'
- 03) Sellindge Village Meeting Agenda
- 04) Damian Collins letter to Village
- 05) Village meeting Thursday 1st September 7.30pm - School Hall
- 06) Why is the Village meeting important to attend
- 07) Poster for Village meeting
- 08) Contacts
3) Otterpool Waste Treatment - since July 2011
4) Wind Farm - since July 2011
- * New 01) How much profit will one of these turbines turn
- * New 02) Delivery Delivering community benefits from wind energy development: A Toolkit - July 2009
- * New 03) Windpower Seminar - May 2010
- * New 04) Wind farms getting too much cash from the taxpayer, says Cameron
- * New 05) Concerns about the Government's support for on-shore wind turbines
- * New 06) Keeping the lights on - various points re energy
- * New 07) Public to get new rights to block windfarms
- * New 08) Official: green taxes add 15% to bills
- * New 09) Five ways to cut windfarm impact
- * New 10) High winds rip blades from turbines
- * New 11) ... while we still pursue a power that won't be
- * New 12) Our need for renewable energy can't be met by endless wind farms
- * New 13) Wind farms are useless says Duke
- 14) Scrapping wind farms will save each of us £550 - 7 Nov 11
- 15) Harringe Brooks, Sellindge - Two Wind Anemometer Masts - more photos - 20th October 2011
- 16) Harringe Brooks, Sellindge - Wind Anemometer Mast - 21 October 2011
- 17) MoD objection halts turbine plan
- 18) A 2nd Wind Mast application - land adjoining Somerfield Court Farm
- 19) Planning Portal - Onshore wind farms refusals increase - 14 July
- 20) Proof that the PM is tilting at windmills - 3 July 2011
- 21) The Wind turbine backlash - 11 July
- 22) Approved wind masts must have bat detectors - 14 July 2011
- 23) Power slump as wind farms are left becalmed - Telegraph 1 July 2011
- 24) info a) Windfarm at Deeping St Nicholas - Noise + Hum
- 25) info b) Waubra Wind Farm - Noise Impact Assessment report
- 26) info c) Den Brook Wind farm Judicial review Information
- 27) info d) stop woodlane wind farm - information
5) Lorry Park - since July 2011
- * New 01) KCC say "Stack lorry park is 'only viable' option on table
- 02) Firefighters' concern over Operation Stack lorry park - 5 September 2011
- 03) Lorry park plan 'unmanageable' - 1 September 2011
- 04) Lorry park plans spark debate + Risk factors - 1 September 2011
- 05) Water supplies inadequate - 1 September 2011
- 06) Operation Stack's £25m solution will soon be revealed - 7 July 2011
- 07) Stack lorry park plans to be revealed - 8 July 2011
- 08) Stack forum books ministerial meeting - 14 July 2011
- 09) An answer to Operation Stack could be agreed by Christmas
- 10) Hoping that freight trains can lighten the load on roads - 16 june 2011
6) Shepway - Housing/Village Green - since July 2011
- * New 01) Shepway LDF Core Strategy Notice of Submission to Secretary of State
- * New 02) Bernhurst Barrow Hill Planning Application
- * New 03) Port Lympne Wild Animal Park - Tented Holiday lodges
- * New 04) Views from your window could win protection
- 05) Parish Council response to Shepway LDF and Sellindge Masterplan
- 06) Monks Horton Parish 'thoughts' regarding Shepway's LDF for planning
- 07) How to 'simply and quickly' Comment on the Sellindge section of the Shepway LDF Strategy plan
- 08) There's still time to make representations on the Shepway Core Strategy!
- 09) Shepway LDF Core Strategy - Sellindge - Documentation - How to Access
- 10) Final Shepway LDF: view and comment - by 23rd September 2011
- 11) Planning for our district's future -28 July 2011
- 12) District's future is going to plan - Folkestone Herald 28 July 2011
- 13) CPRE fears 'open season' on Kent countryside - 1 Aug 2011
- 14) MPs will be punished by voters if they force .....
- 15) Proposal for 30mph limit in villages
7) Sellindge Convertor Station - App. No. 11/00667/AS on Ashford Borough Council website
- * New 01) Planning Application for hard base for equipment ...
- 02) Letter referred to above re planning application
- 03) National Grid Converter Station - Notification of decision
- 04) Our objections stirred Ashford Council
- 05) Land at western side of National Grid Converter Station, Church Lane, Aldington, Kent 11/00667/AS
- 06) Convertor Station Amended Tree Retention from Western View
- 07) Convertor Station Amended Site Plan
- 08) Convertor Station Amended Site Building Plan
- 09) Convertor Station Amended Building Plan
- 10) Convertor Station Amended Building Elevations
- 11) Convertor Station Amended Western View
- 12) Convertor Station Amended Northern View
- 13) old - 1) Carbuncle at Sellindge Convertor Station - comments
- 14) old - 2) Sellindge Convertor Station - Plan looking East
- 15) old - 3) Sellindge Convertor Station - Plan looking South
8) Kent Mineral and Waste Sites Development - Consultation
9) Correspondence including replies - since July 2011
- * New 01) Freedom of Sppech - Sellindge Newsletter
- * New 02) more information re tree preservation
- * New 03) Windfarms black noise, tree preservation - Shepway?
- 04) Abolish the County Councils
- 05) Letter to Mr Cameron - People must not have policies forced on them from above
- 06) Reorganise local government
- 07) Photos of disgraceful 'Pavements' on A20
- 08) National Trust Planning for People campaign - Planning for people - your views?
- 09) English Countryside under threat - petition from '38 degrees'
- 10) National Planning Protest Grows
- 11) Ministers hit back at development threat claims - 25 August 2011
- 12) Paul Carter response - Otterpool Application, Hollingbourne, Lorry Park
- 13) 2nd Wind Farm - Shepway LDF
- 14) Look for an an alternative to residential area
- 15) Otterpool - Contamination and pollution control
- 16) Kent Waste Sites Development Plan
- 17) KCC asked to send people to Sellindge to explain
- 18) Turbines - Black Noise
- 19a) When will Mr Cameron's statement people will not have policies forced on them become law become law
- 19b) Letter to Mr Cameron - People must not have policies forced on them
- 19c) Mr Cameron - people will not have policies forced on them - law
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Contacts
older - 2) Otterpool Waste Application - up to July 2011
- a1) New - Sellindge Parish Council Letter of Complaint to KCC
- a2) New - KCC reply to Sellindge Parish Council letter above
- b) Waste Sites Development Plan Document - Options consultation
- c) KCC ask Public for their views on waste and minerals consultation
- d) Pollution
- e) Richborough Waste site Approved
- f) KCC Planning website now has documents and drawings that led to the approval
- g) Folkestone Herald - Residents plan how to PROTEST
- h) Kentish Express - Villagers 'treated with contempt' by planners
- i) Traffic Assessment
- j) Hollingbourne Application - failed
- k) Draft Minutes KCC Meeting - 15th March 2011
- l) Anger as waste plant conditions revealed
- m) List of conditions KCC have applied
- n) How KCC will monitor and enforce the planning conditions
- o) Planning Conditions raised by the Sellindge Residents Association and agreed by KCC as reasonable
- p) Planning Application - Otterpool Quarry - KCC notification of outcome
- r) Sellindge sludge plant plans approved by KCC
- s) Kentnews - Sludge treatment plant plans approved
- t) BBC News Kent 15 March - Villagers' Protests
- u) Disgust at plant go-ahead
- v) Sludge plant petition for waste bosses
- w) Hundreds sign petition against recycling plant
- x) Detailed Report Objecting to Waste Development Proposals at Otterpool Quarry, Sellindge
- y) Sludge plant conditions real stinkers for Village - 7th April
- z) Sellindge Village News - April 2011
older - 3) Wind Farm - up to July 2011
- * a) New - Neighbours force noisy wind farm to shut down
- * b) New - 38 days when wind farms can't work
- * c) New - Industry wakes to the dangers of green lunacy
- ** 1) older - View from your window could win protection
- ** 2) older - Wind farms aren't just a blight, they're a folly
- ** 3) older - Energy firm bid to put up 80m sensors
- ** 4) older - Application form
- ** older - KCC Planning website now has documents/drawings that led to approval
- *** older - Scots windframs paid cash...
- *** older - Wind Farm summary
- a) Shepway Planning Applications site - direct link to Wind farm monitoring masts
- b) Ecotricity reply to issues raised in the two links (b and c) below
- c) The £250bn wind power industry is the greatest scam of our age - and here are the three lies that prove it
- d) Beware the Global Warming Fascists
- e) Rise in power bills to pay for green energy?
- f) Should our wind farms be subsidised?
- g) Are wind farms really a viable power source
older - 4) Lorry Park - up to July 2011
- * a1) New - Policy on service areas and other roadside facilities on motorways and ...
- * a2) - New - Truckstop planning Initiative
- * b) New - Hoping that freight trains can lighten the load on roads
- a) older - Fast rail freight answer to Operation Stack?
- b) older - Bid to move freight from roads to HS1 being trialled
- c) Enquiry to police re converter station
- d) Reply from police re the above link
- e) Folkestone Herald - let's sort out this problem
- f) Authority Working on cheaper plan
- g) Can we end misery of Operation Stck? - 24th March
- h) Its time to solve Operation Stack
older - 5) Shepway - Housing/Village Green - up to July 2011
older - 7) Correspondence including replies by KCC - up to July 2011
- * 1) New - Question to Paul Carter - Otterpool Quarry clean-up - KCC responsible to see its done - updated
- * 2) New - Concern as to how the clean up will be properly done - updated
- * 3) New - Hollingbourne Application - Covenant - Richborough planning application information
- * a1) New - Reply to KCC letter reply below in a2)
- * a2) New - KCC letter reply to b) below
- * b) New - How far is Sellindge from the site at Otterpool lane
- * c) New - Kent Sites Waste Development Plan
- * d) New - Covenant questions - Hollingbourne Application
- * e) Ombudsman investigate planning system - has there been injustice to an individual or group?
- * f) New - updated - concern - how the developer will be made to clean up contaminated soil at Otterpool
- * g) New - Noisy and Unsightly Wind Turbines
- a) Reply from Defra re planning involvement, points considered, when waste can't be recycled
- b) Reply from Defra re planning involvement, waste, and
- c) Pollution
- d) Otterpool Quarry clean-up - KCC responsible to ensure done
- e) Comparable waste facility operated by Greenfinch in Nottingham
- f) Highway Aspects, Publicity, Alternative plants, Drainage, Other Developments - communication with Environment, Highways and Waste
- g) Help us with our local problem
- h) Questions re the KCC planning process, how was the decision reached, democracy?
- i) Otterpool site should be cleared of pollutants - communication with DEFRA
- j) Freedom of Information request etc
- k) Anaerobic Digester at Sellindge, Kent - Democracy????
- l) Damian Collins has requested KCC representatives to come to Sellindge and explain
- m) Westenhanger Castle - Poor Planning Decision by KCC
- n) - A20 width - 40,000 lorries - their width
- o) - Local roads and Traffic Assessment
- p) - A20 - number of vehicles per day
- q) - Anaerobic Digester - democracy? - KCC worried about costs - away from people
- r) - KCC not seen similar site
- s) - Recycling - where - 62 other sites rejected - Why?
- t) - a few go against 2,000
- u) - Cameron has not been very helpful
- v) - Are Rubbish Incinerators killing our children?
- w) - Paul Carter impact on local roads - reply 31st March 2011
- x) - Brian Sweetland- correspondence with Villager up to 1st April 2011 - including major traffic concerns
- y) - Democracy - letter from Villager 4th April 2011 to KCC
- z) Otterpool - conditions - clear versus ambiguous - Villager letter 1st April 2011 to KCC?
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Local Papers
Recent Updates
- Lydd Airport Expansion Flight Path
- Flyer for the public exhibition
- Urban Initiatives / Shepway DC Consultants
- yourshepway - 3rd November
- yourashford - 3rd November
- Questionnaire 2 - Our Village
- 'SellindgeFuture' website
- Detailed Report Objecting to Waste Development Proposals at Otterpool Quarry, Sellindge
- 'Sellindge - Our Future' Poster for the meeting
- Kentish Express 11/02/10 - KCC meeting in Lympne Monday 8th Feb
- Letter to KCC from Sellindge and District Residents Association
- Kentish Express 28/01/2010 - Lorry Park - KCC reveals the 5 options
- 13th Janaury 2010 - Notes from the Sellindge meeting
Sellindge Future - Meeting 10th/11th December - Exhibition Boards
Urban Initiatives / Shepway DC Consultants Information
Map of Sellindge
Updates in 2008
- Proposed Lorry park-Newsletter No. 10
- Proposed Lorry park - Kentish Express 18 September 2008
- Proposed Lorry park - Kentish Express 11 September 2008
- Proposed Lorry park- Newsletter No. 9
- Composting facility - random photos taken in August
- Composting facility - Outlining the issues
- Composting facility email objection
- Lorry park - Tree preservation order
- Proposed Lorry park- Newsletter No. 8
- Proposed Lorry park report referred to in link above
- Article in the Sellindge Village News - August 2008
Shepway District Planning Meeting - 29th July 2008
letsrecycle website links
- Premier Waste forced to send more waste to landfill - Durham plant out of action – 15/04/2008
- Future of anaerobic digestion - concerns/more research needed – 27/05/2008
- Anglesey AD plant rejected against recommendations – 16/03/2006
- Warning to Councils re AD before charging ahead – 23/11/2007
- Digestion firm changes procedures after pollution fine – 03/11/2006
- Anaerobic digester under construction in Western Isles – 26/09/2005
- A draft quality standard could be available by the end of the year for digestate produced through AD – 22/04/2008
- Royal approval for Bedfordshire anaerobic digester – 13/09/2007
- Systems go for UK's first full-scale anaerobic digester – 17/03/2006
- University to develop anaerobic digester for Kent – 28/06/2006
- letsrecycle website - – using search ‘anaerobic digester’
Meeting with KCC on 24th June 2008 at the Village Hall
CPRE website links
Sellindge march - 3rd May 2008
Useful Websites
- 30th May 2008 - Stack roads misery to continue for at least a year
- Aldington Parish Council
- Countrystyle - Proposers wanting to build the sludge digester
- Kent County Council
- Kent County Council - Operation Stack Lorry Park
- On-line Petition against the Lorry Park's proposed location
- Planning Application for Anaerobic Digestion Plant at Otterpool Lane
- Save Kent!
- Sellindge Parish Council
- Shepway District Council - Planning Applications
- Stanford Parish Council
- Urban Initiatives
- Water issues - the facts
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Kent TV Video Footage of the Proposed Lorry Park
- 12th March - Video and detail of the preferred location
- 12th March - Announcement of the preferrred location by Paul Carter
- 23rd March - Is an end in sight?
- 14th March - Should foreign drivers pay?
- 18th January - We need to find a way to get lorries off the motorway
- 16th January - Operation Stack put in Use for the first time this year
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