From: bobedden@aol.com [mailto:bobedden@aol.com]
Sent: 17 June 2011 08:53
Subject: Re: Carbuncle at Sellindge Convertor Station: Application 11/00667/AS
Subject: Re: Carbuncle at Sellindge Convertor Station: Application 11/00667/AS
CHER AMIS
There doesn't feel to be a great deal of chance to stop this one happening, it's National infrastructure on the same site as all the existing buildings.
Aldington and Bonnington PCs have already commented 'supporting' the application. That reads a bit like wholehearted support and that is a little surprising.
The cladding proposed to the elevated building as shown on the drawings and described in the documents is Mill Finish Aluminium. What this means is RAW aluminium. Initially it will be shiny, then the surface will oxidize and end up as a sort of milky white grey colour. This is the cheapest of the cheap! According to the gods at KCC planning if you clad big buildings in sheeting coloured Heritage Green only then do they blend into the landscape. Quite a contrast to bright and shiny!
The building shape is crude and there appears to be little effort to mitigate it's impact on the local landscape. This is an area where more should be expected from these organisations, and from the planning authorities.
This is an application to Ashford Borough Council so that is where your comments should be directed. You can do it online from the planning application search pages if you want, or write to Carol Ridings at Ashford Borough Council and quote the planning reference 11/00667/AS.
Ashford have also consulted Shepway on this application because it is close to the district boundary. So you can write to Shepway Planning as well if you have any opinions on this and want them to know about it.....
regards
Bob Edden
There doesn't feel to be a great deal of chance to stop this one happening, it's National infrastructure on the same site as all the existing buildings.
Aldington and Bonnington PCs have already commented 'supporting' the application. That reads a bit like wholehearted support and that is a little surprising.
The cladding proposed to the elevated building as shown on the drawings and described in the documents is Mill Finish Aluminium. What this means is RAW aluminium. Initially it will be shiny, then the surface will oxidize and end up as a sort of milky white grey colour. This is the cheapest of the cheap! According to the gods at KCC planning if you clad big buildings in sheeting coloured Heritage Green only then do they blend into the landscape. Quite a contrast to bright and shiny!
The building shape is crude and there appears to be little effort to mitigate it's impact on the local landscape. This is an area where more should be expected from these organisations, and from the planning authorities.
This is an application to Ashford Borough Council so that is where your comments should be directed. You can do it online from the planning application search pages if you want, or write to Carol Ridings at Ashford Borough Council and quote the planning reference 11/00667/AS.
Ashford have also consulted Shepway on this application because it is close to the district boundary. So you can write to Shepway Planning as well if you have any opinions on this and want them to know about it.....
regards
Bob Edden
Sent: 16 June 2011 20:46
To: dave motley; Christine Knight; dave; Sean Furey; AMCT@gmail.com
Subject: Carbuncle at Sellindge Convertor Station: Application 11/00667/AS
Importance: High
To: dave motley; Christine Knight; dave; Sean Furey; AMCT@gmail.com
Subject: Carbuncle at Sellindge Convertor Station: Application 11/00667/AS
Importance: High
Dear All
After the long fight by all the local residents to ensure that as much as possible of the Sellindge Convertor Station was built below ground and out of site the National Grid have now slipped in a sneaky planning application to build a Transformer substation on stilts above the tree line in full view of the valley. This is going to be a white/cream huge shed taller than the other buildings (it is actually on stilts because the area floods!) The planning application is 11/00667/AS and is held at Ashford, it is viewable on the internet if you know how. I have attached a couple of views of this carbuncle from the application.
Representation against this planning are to be in by the 03 July 2011 which is before the next parish council meetings therefore not giving us the public a chance to raise this with our local parish councilors and forming a cohesive opposition.
Can you please sent out the message to all those who care about the vista of our valley to raise an objection against this building. Please note I am not against the transformer per say but it should be lowered in the ground in a flood protect bund the same as all of the other buildings on site and below the tree line. Also there has not been any noise mention transformers by their very nature are noisy.
Regards
Brian Ellis
