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28 December 01:09 Please sign our ONLINE PETITION and spread the word  https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/sos-kent SMARTER OPTIONS THAN HUGE LORRY PARK you.38degrees.org.uk

LORRY PARK ONLINE PETITION

Dear Residents,

The Stanford action Group, SOS KENT,  has teamed up with '38 Degrees' to create an online petition. 

We would urge ALL of our Residents to sign the petition to stop the concreting over of 152 acres of good arable farmland causing massive environmental degradation of our area.

Simply type into your search engine: '38 degrees Lorry Park'. If we are to win this battle we must all pull together and not leave it to others.

Tune into ITV local news at 6.25pm today (Monday)  for a 'Lorry Park' media update.

Les Barratt, Co Chairman S&DRA.

Lorry Park Site Selection

GOSE and KCC site selection table shows Stanford area as being unsuitable as a lorry park due to the site being situated within a SLA and AONB area. The site is also a designated SSSI site and an area of ancient woodland.

https://shepwayvox.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/wyg-table-a042767_1.pdf

SEASONS GREETINGS

Wishing all our friends and neighbours a very merry Christmas from the Sellindge & District Residents Association.

ADD YOUR SUPPORT VIA FACEBOOK

Dear Residents,

Support for the newly formed Action group in Stanford is growing fast. To support the group simply make your way to SOS Kent facebook page and sign up. Add members who wish to support us.

The Sellindge & District Residents Association is now on facebook. Look us up as 'Sellindge Residents'. Make your views known.

KEEP SPREADING THE WORD.

Les Barratt Co Chairman, S&DRA. sellindgeresidents@gmail.com

LORRY PARK UPDATE.

Dear Residents,

For all of you that visited the Lorry Park exhibition last Saturday,12th and Monday,14th December and thought that it lacked clarity and detail, you weren't alone.

Even the map on Damian Collins' website has been altered dramatically to now show an area that we think could be the planned footprint. This exhibition has been thrown together purely as a political knee jerk reaction to solve the problem of operation stack, but with 7-10,000 lorry movements per day, you don't have to be a genius to work out that lorries will still be stacked on the M20 even when the 4000 lorry park is full.

Our neighbouring Parish and friends at Stanford have already set up an opposition group with the Parish Council leading the way in promoting further consultations with Highways England and other statutory bodies to find a more sympathetic solution other than destroying Residents lives and our beautiful countryside. So far, Monks Horton Parish Meeting have thrown their weight behind the Stanford action group as well as the Sellindge & District Residents Association. It looks as if many other Parishes are set to join the campaign.

Your MP, Damian Collins is supporting the 152 acre (76 Football pitches) lorry park scheme as set out by Highways England, taken from a brief from central Government.  I wonder if he would be taking this stance if this constituency was 'marginal' or in a 'run up' to an election - We don't think so.

A public meeting has been arranged with Mr. Collins at Westenhanger Castle, Friday 22nd January at 7.30pm. Please set this date in your diaries. For all of you who would like to ask question(s) or make your views known, the Chairman of Stanford Parish Council, Matthew Webb, has asked that you contact him with details or points to be raised: mattywebb69@gmail.com

As time is of the essence, I would urge you all to make your protestations known by writing to Damian Collins MP, House of Commons, London SW1 OAA. or by emailing him at damian.collins.mp@parliament.uk

If you prefer facebook, Mr. Collins has a blog on his website where others have made their views known.

Please expect more postings on this ever changing campaign at frequent intervals.

Les Barratt, Co Chairman, S&DRA. sellindgeresidents@gmail.com

SECOND LORRY PARK EXHIBITION

Dear Residents,

If you didn't manage to get to the Lorry Park exhibition today (12/12/15), there is a second exhibition being held on  Monday,11th January 2016 between 2 and 8pm. at the Sports and Social Club, Swan Lane, Sellindge, as shown on a previous posting.

You would have noticed that no exhibitions are scheduled for Stanford or Westenhanger..

The Sellindge & District Residents Association are firmly opposed to a lorry park on this scale and will vehemently oppose the proposed scheme.

Les Barratt. Co Chairman, S&DRA.

LORRY PARK EXHIBITIONS.

PLEASE MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARIES FOR THE FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS.

Listed below

are the various dates, times and venues:

Date Time Venue

Saturday

12 December 2015

12pm to 6pm

Sellindge Sports and Social Club

69 Swan Lane, Sellindge, Ashford, Kent TN25 6HB

Monday

14 December 2015

2pm to 8pm

Monday

4 January 2015

2pm to 8pm

Civic Centre, Shepway District Council

Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2QY

Tuesday

5 January 2015

2pm to 8pm

Wednesday

6 January 2016

2pm to 8pm

The New Ashford Market

Monument Way Orbital Park, Ashford, Kent TN24 0HB

Thursday

7 January 2016

2pm to 8pm

Dover Town Hall

Maison Dieu Place, Biggin Street, Dover, Kent CT16 1DL

Monday

11 January 2016

2pm to 8pm

Sellindge Sports and Social Club

69 Swan Lane, Sellindge, Ashford, Kent TN25 6HB

Tuesday

12 January 2016

2pm to 8pm

Hawkinge Community Centre

Hawkinge CT18 7FP

Please come along to the exhibition and meet the Project Team who will be available to answer your questions.

www.gov.uk/highways December 2015

LORRY PARK EXHIBITION

Highways England and the Department for Transport (DfT) are commencing consultations on proposals for 'solving' Operation Stack this weekend.

The exhibition will be open for viewing at the Sellindge Sports and Social Club on Saturday 12th December from 12:00noon to 6:00pm.  It may also be open to view on Monday 14 at time to be clarified.

IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PROPOSALS CENTRE ON SITES ADJACENT TO JUNCTION 11.

PLEASE MAKE THE EFFORT TO GO AND LOOK AT WHAT IS ON DISPLAY AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS KNOWN.

THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME INFLUENCE ON WHAT IS DONE AND THE IMPACT THAT IT WILL HAVE ON THIS LOCALITY.

Watch the local press and media for further information and launch announcements.

After being in Sellindge the exhibition will travel to other locations in the district and may return to Sellindge at the end.


Bob Edden

Co-Chairman
Sellindge and District Residents' Association

WOOD BURNING POWER STATION LINKS.

Dear Residents,

Detailed links to the Shepway District Council site to make comments are as follows:

Application

http://searchplanapps.shepway.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NRVTYFNZ03J00

Comments

http://searchplanapps.shepway.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=neighbourComments&keyVal=NRVTYFNZ03J00&neighbourCommentsPager.page=2

Application number

Y15/0751/SH

S&DRA.

MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN.

With the Power station application now lodged with Shepway District Council, it is now up to you to make your views known. For those of you that have not registered your views yet please click on the link:  searchplanapps.shepway.gov.uk  and enter the reference  Y15/0751/SH in the 'Search' box. Then click on 'Comments' and follow the simple instructions to log in or register.

S&DRA are firmly opposed to this application along with hundreds of other Parishioners. As time is of the essence in this application we would urge you all to make your views known as soon as possible.

Les Barratt Co Chairman. S&DRA.

Airport Cafe Statement

An Open letter from Patrick Breen,  Airport Cafe.

Hello all Sellindge residents,

As you may now all be aware we are opening the Otterpool site to park lorries which are both affecting our business and the village. We hope with this overflow area it will prevent lorries going into the village and also parking all over our customer car park when we are closed.

The parking at the rear of the cafe is nothing to do with myself or Julie and is run by Julie's brother. Our parking area is only up to the blue barrels in the car park.

The original plans for the recycling plant are not going ahead, so we are renting the site from Countrystyle. We are not in any partnership with Countrystyle and are just trying to have some control as if anyone else takes over we will have no say in what happens.

If anyone wishes to speak with us on any issues they are more than welcome.

We have been in touch with Shepway planning dept regarding this. We do not intend to develop the site but just use the existing surface. The site will have security, toilets, cameras and should prevent drivers using the roadside in the village as a toilet.

Better to have a controlled site with facilities. This should be a much better use with less lorry impact than the waste plant.

Patrick Breen.

WOOD BURNING POWER STATION, LYMPNE/SELLINDGE. <<<< URGENT.

We have just learned that the application for the wood burning power station is now live. It is now official that should the power station be built, our areas will become blighted, our property values will dramatically fall (that's if they are able to be sold). 

For those of you who may think this is a charcoal burner style of power station in a sleepy backwater of the villages - THINK AGAIN. ---  THIS IS THE SIZE OF DUNGENESS.... Watch this space for more information regarding a public meeting and 'people action'.

Les Barratt. Co Chairman S&DRA.

WOOD BURNING POWER STATION DOCUMENT INSPECTION.

Further to our last posting, we attended the document inspection at Lympne Village hall for the pre-validation of the proposed wood burning power station application. As expected, there were bundles of documents and drawings openly displayed in the hope of persuading us that this project is good for local people, good for the environment, good for the nation and built/ operated by a professional company.

We believe that this company is disingenuous in it's approach to our residents and local neighbouring communities and that the only motivation for this company is profit.

They state that their exhibition held in January was well advertised and showed a copy of a tiny advert placed in the 'Herald' local paper with the 'on sale' date of 29th January. The exhibition was held two days later, 31st January. This was the ONLY form of advertising shown as evidence in the documentation bundle. Moreover, in other documentation. they stated that although it was snowing, a good turnout was realised. Well I know that it didn't snow on the 31st January and I also know that it wasn't a good turnout.  

This, as previously stated, is an exercise in moving in under the radar to secure approval of a profit making venture to the detriment of our communities. Hopefully our newly elected representatives will be making the right noises at Shepway District Council to initially re-run the January exhibition, only after local Parish Councils have had good time to publicise the event in the monthly Parish magazines together with posters at all Parish notice boards and a minimum half page advert in ALL local newspapers. Only then will we see a real turnout of Residents.

If you are in any doubt as to the size of the Power station, take a trip to Dungeness Power station and check out the height, The proposed Otterpool Power station is actually higher. 

There are many more issues that have been briefly covered in previous postings and you can be sure that there is a long way to run in this application if, and when it becomes validated. In the interim we would encourage you all to write to Jenny Hollingsbee, Damian Collins MP. David Monk, SDC Leader, asking that the Iceni Energy 2 exhibition be re-run with a reasonable 'lead-in' advertising time. Please email us if you require further details.

In the meantime the Application documentation may be viewed in the Committee room of Sellindge Village Hall during 'Pop-in' hours: Monday and Wednesday 8.30am-12pm. Tuesday 8.30am - 3.00pm. up until 17th June, although this period may be extended.

The documents may also be viewed at the Parish Council office on Friday afternoons between 3 and 5pm. Contact details (Parish Council) should you wish to discuss the validation further: 07788 414313. nnwfursdon@aol.com

S&DRA's position is clear. We believe this venture is completely unsustainable and detrimental to our environment and communities. We oppose this application at every level.

Les Barratt. Co-Chairman. S&DRA.

PROPOSED POWER STATION FOR SELLINDGE / LYMPNE.

Dear Residents,

It appears that the company, Iceni Energy 2, that is proposing to build and operate a wood burning power station in Otterpool Lane is about to submit a planning application to Shepway District Council (SDC).

Although the application has yet to be validated by SDC, Lympne Parish Council has received the relevant documentation which will be on view at Lympne Village Hall on the following dates:

Saturday, 6th June. 10am - 12pm.  Thursday 11th June. 3pm - 5pm. Tuesday, 16th June. 6pm --8pm.

If these dates are not convenient, appointments may be made by contacting the  Lympne Parish clerk on 01303-265651.

You will recall that this company held an exhibition earlier in the year but conveniently forgot to inform Parish Councils and local residents of their intentions. 

We reserve comment at this stage but will be commenting further after 6th June.

Les Barratt

Co-Chairman. S&DRA,

WOOD BURNING POWER STATION PROPOSED FOR OTTERPOOL LANE.

Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse for the residents of Sellindge and Lympne, along comes Iceni Energy2 Ltd.

Who are they?. A small family run business based in Norfolk with finger in various green pies with a list of directorships between them. But to be honest, who cares.

The fact of the matter is that we now have a company jumping on the bandwagon of 'Biomass' energy to secure generous subsidies from central Government (our money) to operate a wood burning power station, burning over 820 tonnes of wood each day. According to the company Architect, building height will be a minimum of 30 metres (100 feet) with a chimney stack at 70 metres..Moreover, HGV traffic will increase adding to congestion and pollution. 

Where is the wood coming from?, One director said 'Norway', one said 'Kent and when that runs out, probably Norway'. Will we see Lyminge forest cut down at an unsustainable rate? Either way, it doesn't take a genius to work out how unsustainable it would be to transport this huge amount of feed stock alongside deforestation to the detriment of our wildlife and eco systems. 

Iceni Energy held an exhibition at Lympne Village Hall last Saturday, 31st January, With no notification to neighbouring Parish Councils or any other form of advertising. It seems that the company was hoping for little resistance from local people, simply to report to Shepway Distict Council that no opposition was initially encountered, leaving a clear route to a formal planning application. 

Our Association heard about the exhibition the night before and contacted our members to attend.. Iceni Energy can now be in no doubt that they are not and never will be welcomed here.

What can we as individuals do? Write to your local MP - Damian Collins, David Monk, Leader at Shepway DC, and Jenny Hollingsbee - your local Councillor.  

Our Association will be meeting within the coming days to plan our strategy going forward. Please feel free to contact us at any time for information.

Les Barratt. Co Chairman S&DRA.