Otterpool Quarry decision notice - now on KCC website

The decision notice for the quarry has appeared on the KCC website. It is a very dense form of document (13 pages long) and includes the list of conditions that KCC have applied. 

These can be viewed at the top of the second coloured section down, in the right-hand column, named 'Otterpool Waste Application - Latest'. Just click on the link entitled "List of conditions KCC have applied" to read, scrolling up and down as you wish or you may prefer to print the document. Once you have finished viewing, just click on the back arrow at the top left of your screen to return to here, the "Home Page".

How KCC will monitor and enforce the planning conditions applied to the Otterpool consent

Please see the new section, immediately below the Home page link, entitled 'Otterpool Waste Application - Latest', for the news since KCC approved but with Conditions.

Please see the top link in this section which describes "How KCC will monitor and enforce the planning conditions applied to the Otterpool consent." Just click on the link in the right-hand section to read this. Once you have finished viewing just click on the back arrow at the top left of your screen to return to here, the "Home Page". 

Otterpool Waste - Information following KCC meeting

Here is an informal preview of what is yet to be published officially by KCC planning ……………………….........................................................................

KCC say the list of "Conditions" raised by the Sellindge & District Residents' Association at the Planning Committee meeting on 16th March - that KCC referred to both during and at the end of the meeting - is acceptable and the spirit is acceptable and they will incorporate these "Conditions" onto their list of conditions.                                                                                                                                                
The "Conditions" can be seen at the top of the 'Otterpool Waste Treatment' Section (2nd coloured Section down in the right-hand column) Just click on the link within this Section entitled 'Planning Conditions' to view. Once you have finished click on the back arrow at the top of the screen to return to here.

These "Conditions" will help force out the detail that has been so lacking during the application process, and from that the possibility that the development will become increasingly harder to justify economically.

They have a planning consent.

They now have to cross many demanding  hurdles to be able to start building.

They have equally demanding hurdles to be allowed to operate the site.

We have to make sure that these hurdles are kept as high as properly required, and no circumvention of the requirements.                                                                                                                     
Other information in the 'Otterpool Waste Treatment' Section include on-line news from a variety of sources and hopefully will be available for a while. The local papers out this week should include further detail. This will be updated here early next week. 

Breaking News - BBC 1 South East - tonight - 6.30pm - Wednesday 9th March.

Our Chairman, Ronald Lello, is appearing live on  BBC 1 South-East News tonight (Wednesday 9^th March) at 6.30pm.

If you miss Ronald or want to see him again, you will be able to watch it via BBC iPlayer until 6.30pm tomorrow night. (We shall also try and put a link here but not sure if this will be possible- watch this space.) 

Breaking News - KCC PLANNING HEARING - Otterpool Quarry Waste Treatment - Confirmed 15th March

Anaerobic Waste Recycling Plant application – confirmed - 15th March

KCC have confirmed the hearing of the Countryside's Otterpool Anaerobic Waste plant Application will be first on the Agenda at the planning meeting on Tuesday 15th March for consideration.

Please remember that County Councillor Susan Carey says such demonstrations do have a big effect so please make a huge effort to be there. Coaches have been re-booked for Tuesday 15th March to take protesters to County Hall Maidstone. People will need to be at the Village hall by 8.20 am, leaving on the dot at 8.30 am. The early departure is necessary due to the hearing starting at 10 am, the time it takes to get to Maidstone (including rush hour and being market day) and needing to present our Petition and be settled in place before the hearing. If you would like to join us on the coach then we are just asking for a £5 donation to the Residents’ Association.

If you have not already done so, please contact Margaret Ludlow via email mjludlow@toucansurf.com or telephone (01303) 813 369 as we need to know if you want to reserve a place on the coach 

Any further information will be published as soon as available - keep watching!!


The local papers will include the latest and hopefully local TV !! 

Letter from a local resident to the PM re the Otterpool Planning Application

Please see below a copy of a letter from a local resident, Fred Turton, to the Prime Minister. 

For the personal attention of Mr D.Cameron
Dear Mr Cameron, we desperately need your personal help. The village in which I live is located half way between Folkestone and Ashford, Kent, on the main A20 road. We are a small village with a population of just under 2000 residents. On the outskirts of the village is an old aerodrome that is now being used as an industrial site.

On the edge of the site in question, a company called Countrystyle Developments, has put in a planning application to build an Anaerobic Processing plant for the conversion of waste food to fertiliser and methane gas. The site chosen is on the south side of the village in the path of the prevailing South-westerly wind. The Plants produce obnoxious gases and it’s fairly obvious that we are going to suffer when these are blown across the village. With the best intentions it will be impossible to control the stench. The location of the Plant is only about 30m from the nearest house and directly opposite a thriving café.

The people of Sellindge are so incensed that they have signed a petition against the construction of the Plant. The response is over whelming with a 96% return. This brings me to your personal and government policy ‘that local communities must not have projects forced on them from above. It must be an agreement between the community and their local council’. We are having a meeting with Kent County Council (KCC) on the 15^th March. It has been indicated that KCC is going to grant planning permission on the grounds that any problem can be technically solved. This is completely contrary to your policy of local involvement.

What infuriates us as a village is that those who decide and those applying for application are not affected by the outcome; we have to live with it. I am sure that if there was a possibility of such a Plant being built in the locality where these people live, they would fight it “tooth and nail”. Tell me, would you like to have a plant that produces obnoxious gases being built in the locality of your home, obviously the answer is no? So why should we be expected to suffer just because some people want to make money?

The people of Sellindge are all in favour of recycling. This is evident with the way in which they take great pains to separate their rubbish every collection day. We very rarely have the roads swept by the local council but you don’t see any rubbish on the roads as the locals will pick it up, even if it’s someone else’s. We live in a rural area and cannot see why the Plant cannot be erected somewhere else and away from any residential area. At the moment we feel that we are being “rough shod” over by KCC and Countrystyle Developments. In my opinion they have absolutely no consideration for anybody but themselves. Why should a community suffer just because a few selfish people want to make money? If the recycle process is so essential then let some of the farmland be developed to cater for this? To me the ideal location would be at Dungeness, next to the power station which is sparsely populated.

On the BBC Breakfast TV a few weeks ago, they did a report on one of the existing Anaerobic Plants. The waste product that they showed was just one lorry load. The reporter in her closing sentence actually remarked, “What a Pong”. This was just one load but according to Countrystyle’s own website they are expecting to use over 100 Lorries a day. The thing is how large is this Plant going to be to cope with all this stuff? Added to this there is the problem of pollution from the exhaust of the number of Lorries used. Finally, there is the problem with vermin. During the summer we are going to be plagued with flies and it will obviously attract rats and mice. No doubt Countrystyle will use the argument that this will all be taken care of but I very much doubt that they will be able to control 100% of any problem that may arise. Someone may have to take them to Court under the Tort of Nuisance but who will foot the bill? 

We live in a democratic society so surely the wishes of the majority should prevail.

Thank you for your time. I realise that you are an extremely busy man but the people of Sellindge are desperate. So please help.

Yours sincerely,

Fred Turton.

Copies to:

Kent County Council.

Shepway District Council.

Countrystyle Developments

£120 billion gamble on wind turbines - 7th March 2012

The article below was published on 7th March 2012 in the Daily Mail. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start. 

Maximum Speed Limits

From: BobEdden@aol.com [mailto:BobEdden@aol.com]
Sent: 23 March 2012 10:12
To: dave@davemotley.co.uk; sellindgeresidents@gmail.com
Subject: Maximum Speed Limits

Hi,

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

"No to 80mph speed limits"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no-to-80mph-speed-limits/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=system&utm_campaign=Send%2Bto%2BFriend

The petition is primarily motivated by increased accident risks and the consequences and is absolutely right in this context.

But remember also that as speed increases so does the noise generated by engines and tyres on the road.  It is only a few years back that great trumpeting was made of the resurfacing of the M20  with 'quiet tarmac'.  Whatever good that has achieved will be undone if the speed limit goes up.

Increasing the speed limit seems to against all natural logic......more dangerous, more noisy, and far more consumptive of fuel. 

I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes just a few seconds of your time.


Please click on this link for further information .......   Useful, inevitable, obvious conclusions

Thanks!

regards,

Further communication from the Planning Inspector regarding Shepway Core Strategy Examination

Please find below a copy of an email received 30th March from Shepway.

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From: alexandra.sansom@shepway.gov.uk [mailto:alexandra.sansom@shepway.gov.uk]
Sent: 30 March 2012 16:26
Subject: Inspector's further communication regarding changes to NPPF

Please find below further communication from the Planning Inspector regarding Shepway Core Strategy Examination
The Government has recently published the National Planning Policy Framework ("the Framework") and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites.  Copies of these documents can be found at: 


National Planning Policy Framework   


and 


Planning Policy for Travellers Sites    


If you wish to make representations on the matters raised in these documents as far as they relate to the Shepway Core Strategy Examination, please respond to the Programme Officer at the address below by 5pm on Friday 27 April 2012.
Michael J Hetherington
Inspector for the Shepway Core Strategy Examination
30 March 2012

Ms Alex Sansom

Programme Officer

Shepway District Council Core Strategy Examination

Tel: 01303 853393

Ext: 3393

c/- Shepway District Council, Civic Centre

Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2QY

Email alexandra.sansom@shepway.gov.uk

Core Strategy Public Examination 

Planning Application for Wind Turbine - Somerfield Court Farm

Below is information regarding planning application for the:

Erection of a single wind turbine measuring 44.28m to hub height and a maximum of 61m to blade tip height, together with construction of an access track, a crane pad and an equipment housing cabinet.

at:

Land Adjoining Somerfield Court Farm Barrow Hill Sellindge Kent 

Please click on the following link to view the Planning Application - comments need to be in by Sunday 22nd April 2012 at the latest.

http://searchplanapps.shepway.gov.uk/online-applications/caseDetails.do?action=dispatch&keyVal=M0K49UNZ2Z000&caseType=Application

A copy of the letter regarding this application can be viewed by clicking on the following link:

Link to: Planning Application for Erection of Single Wind Turbine bear Somerfield Court Farm Barrow Hill Sellindge

Proposed Harringe Brooks Wind Park Public Exhibition - 16th April 2012

A local resident of Sellindge (Dave Motley) received the information below from Ecotricity on Saturday 31st March 2012. This includes a 'Dear Occupier' letter with general information, an invitation to the Village Hall Exhibition on Monday 16th April and their Newsletter which describes their proposal and provides information on the most commonly asked questions. To help read each of these (enlarge the print) click on one of the 3 images and you can then view each of the three pages more easily. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start. 

Windmills that I mind

The article below was published on 21st March 2012 in the Daily Mail. To better read the article (enlarge the print) click on the images below in turn. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

Tudor treasure to be blighted by wind farm

The article below was published on 15th March 2012 in the Daily Mail. To better read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

Otterpool Quarry - now listed in the Preferred Options Consultation on Waste Site Plans

From Our County Councillor, Susan Carey, in the Sellindge Newsletter there is a section Susan has written regarding Otterpool Quarry as follows:

"I had some news about Otterpool Quarry which came out too late for inclusion in my report but by the time this newsletter comes will be available on the KCC website www.kent.gov.uk .

Otterpool Quarry is now one of the sites listed in the Preferred Options Consultation on Waste Site Plans.  I want to stress that this does not change any of the obligations on Countrystyle to get a permit from the Environment Agency and fulfil the conditions of it planning permission before it can start any waste operations. It is, however, recognition that Countrystyle has obtained planning permission for the site. The consultation runs for 8 weeks till 23 July 2012."

Use them of lose them

The article below was published on 29th March 2012 in the Daily Mail. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below.Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

 

M20 could trial new 80mph limit

The article below was published on 29th March 2012 in the Kentish Express. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen twice to return to the 'Home' page.

M20 could trial new 80mph limit

The article below was published on 29th March 2012 in the Kentish Express. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start. 

Further correspondence regarding Shepway Core Strategy - 15 March 2012

I have received the following 3 documents on 15th March from Shepway via email regarding the above. To view these, please click on the links below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

1) Guidance notes v2

2) Letter advising Hearing Date

3) Shepway CS MIQ

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From: alexandra.sansom@shepway.gov.uk [mailto:alexandra.sansom@shepway.gov.uk]
Sent: 15 March 2012 16:09
To: dave@davemotley.co.uk
Subject: Letter advising Hearings Date

Please find attached further correspondence regarding Shepway Core Strategy.

Regards

Ms Alex Sansom
Programme Officer
Shepway District Council Core Strategy Examination
Tel: 01303 853393 - Ext: 3393
c/- Shepway District Council, Civic Centre

Core Strategy Public Examination

Broken down and rusting, is this the future of Britain's 'Wind Rush'?

The article below was published on 19th March 2012 in the Daily Mail. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.


It spread over two pages, but as you can see I have scanned it as 4 sections. These are best viewed in the order below:


1) Top of right page - headline and photo

2) Top of left page - note this has two columns with column 2 continuing from column 1, from bottom of left page  

3) Bottom of left page

4) Bottom of right page