Dear Mr Sweetland, Thank you for your letter. I am glad that Mr Barratt is at last going to get some answers. I still have not received an answer from you giving the measurement of the narrowest part of the winding stretch of A20 between Junction 11 of the M20 and the Newingreen Junction of the A20. Also, I requested the width measurements of the lorries using the Lympne Industrial Estate, and the width of the widest lorries owned by Countrystyle. I am rather disappointed that you seem to be evading these questions, and would be happy if you could comply with my request. As I said, we will be happy to check the figures, when you give them to us. I am in correspondence with the Environment Department, and Caroline Spelman MP is hopefully putting me in touch with someone who can look into the regulations regarding the contamination at the Otterpool site. I would not like to think that work will begin before Countrystyle have been made to completely clean up the ground. I realise this is not in your remit, but the questions on the road/lorry measurements is, I think. I look forward to receiving the necessary information, and I am sure you will let Mr Carter know when you have done this. Kindest regards, Sent on behalf of Mr Bryan Sweetland
Dear Mrs Turton
Thank you for your emails of 24th and 26th May 2011 addressed to Mr Carter concerning the Otterpool Quarry planning application, he has asked me to reply.
I note that you are seeking replies to matters that you have raised in earlier correspondence. These have been addressed in my email to you of 25th May 2011, which sets out a detailed reply to the highway issue that you raised. It also advises that as Mr Barratt is meeting with officers from the Planning Applications Group next week, it was felt that it would be beneficial to all parties if the concerns could be raised there. Mr Barratt has been advised of this.
Your correspondence also raises concerns in relation to contamination. This was a matter that was addressed in the planning application process and will be a consideration for the Environment Agency as part of any Environmental Permit.
I trust that this addresses your concerns.
Yours sincerely
Bryan Sweetland
From: Horton, Debbie - BSS GL
Sent: 24 May 2011 14:08
To: Mavis Turton
Cc: Sweetland, Bryan - MEM; Clout, Rachel - EE CDO
Subject: RE: Otterpool Quarry Waste site
Importance: High Dear Mrs Turton,
Thank you for your further e-mail addressed to Paul Carter.
I am sorry that you have not received answers to your questions raised in previous letters. I have asked that Bryan Sweetland responds to your latest letter as I aware that he has been liaising with you previously on this matter.
Kind regards Debbie
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From: Mavis Turton [mailto:mavis.turton@btinternet.com]
Sent: 24 May 2011 08:27
To: Carter, Paul - LEADER
Subject: Otterpool Quarry Waste site
Dear Mr Carter, I am sorry to have to write to you yet again, but there are problems we are failing to get answers to concerning Countrystyle's development of the Otterpool Quarry site in Sellindge. I have asked many times for Highways to supply me with the measurements of the narrowest part of the winding road between Junction 11 of the M20, and the Newingreen junction of the A20. I have also asked for the measurements of the width of both Countrystyle's lorries and the width of the Inter-continental long vehicles who also travel along this stretch of road. I have said that we would be glad to check those measurements ourselves. Highways have failed to give us any answers and have even failed to acknowledge that part of our enquiry. All that we are being told is that this awful stretch of road, which is already a poor part of the A20, because of its winding narrow aspect, is perfectly safe to take an EXTRA 43,000 lorries per year. We do not agree, and that is why we are asking for the measurements.
We have a qualified surveyor on the Residents' Association, and he has been seeking some answers to some technical questions, and again, he is not being furnished with them.
We are extremely concerned about whether Countrystyle will be made to clear the site of the massive deposits of waste diesel, creosote etc., which had previously been dumped at the site when the business of quarrying was finished. I know that the Environment Department would be very concerned about this, and I have written to them describing the situation. The Chairman of the Residents' Association, Mr Lello, has himself found deposits of oil containing soil, which still smells of contaminants years after they were deposited. A friend of mine had the Environment Agency come to her home when some soil in the field behind her had a spillage of home heating fuel, and she was told that she would have to pay for the removal and clean up of the ground. Fortunately, it was not her oil tank which was causing the problem, but it does demonstrate how rigorously such contamination is dealt with, and that was nowhere on the scale of the Otterpool Quarry contamination.
I hope to receive answers to the questions I have raised to you in this e mail.
Why are the technical questions raised by our surveyor Mr Les Barratt being ignored?
Why is the request for the measurements of the narrowest section of the road between Junction 11 of the M20 and the Newingreen junction, together with the measurements for the width of the largest lorries, also being ignored?
What measurements will you enforce for the necessary cleaning up of the oil pollution at the Otterpool Quarry site?
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