KCC: Minerals & Waste Sites Preferred Options - Consultation Reminder

From: Rachel.Cutler@kent.gov.uk [mailto:Rachel.Cutler@kent.gov.uk]
Sent: 09 July 2012 12:20
To: dave@davemotley.co.uk
Subject: Kent County Council: Minerals and Waste Sites Preferred Options - Consultation Reminder

Dear Consultee,

This email is to remind you that the following Kent Minerals and Waste Development Framework public consultations will close in two weeks on Monday 23 July 2012 at 5pm.

• Mineral Sites Plan ‘Preferred Options’ Stage Consultation
• Waste Sites Plan ‘Preferred Options’ Stage Consultation, and
• Minerals and Waste Sites - Preferred Options Evidence Base

The Mineral Sites and the Waste Sites Plans consultation at this ‘preferred options’ stage is the second time we have asked for your views in the process of preparing these plans. The responses from the 2011 site plans consultations at ‘options’ stage have assisted us in the site assessment and selection process, and are saved as part of the evidence base. Both documents now identify the sites that are considered to be the best and most sustainable sites needed by Kent for minerals and waste management up to the end of 2030. There are now 25 preferred option sites for mineral supply and 21 preferred option sites for waste management. The remaining sites are identified as ‘not allocated’.

We would like your views on these preferred options. The responses received from this second round of consultations will help us with the preparation of the final plans. You are invited to give us your views on:

1. what these documents should contain;
2. the proposed preferred option sites for minerals extraction and supply and waste management;
3. the sites not selected as preferred options;
4. the evidence base that has been prepared to inform the plans (including the draft Local Aggregate Assessment, the Waste Needs Assessment update, the accompanying Interim Sustainability Appraisal, the Habitat Regulations Assessment, the Strategic Flood Risk Assessments and details explaining how the site assessment process was carried out).

To submit your views we recommend that you use our online consultation portal at http://consult.kent.gov.uk/portal to inspect the consultation documents and evidence base topic papers, and the accompanying Sustainability Assessment Commentary and Habitat Regulations Assessment Report.

If you prefer, you can email your comments to mwdf@kent.gov.uk or write to us at: MWLP Project Team, Planning and Environment, Kent County Council, Invicta House, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XX. All submitted comments will be published on our online consultation portal.

You can inspect copies of the two main consultation documents at the main Kent County Council offices^[2], in Gateways, and in local libraries.

Please contact us at the addresses above or visit our website www.kent.gov.uk/mwdf for further information.

Yours faithfully

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[2] Sessions House, Maidstone; Joynes House, Gravesend; Kroner House, Ashford; Kings Hill Office, West Malling; St. Peter's House, Broadstairs.

Flyer & Poster - The Village Meeting - Wind Turbines - 26th July - 7.30pm - Sellindge School Hall

Click on the links below to see the flyer and poster with details of the Village Meeting on 26th July at 7.30pm in the Sellindge School Hall where Wind Turbines will be discussed and in particular the Planning Application for the 6 Wind Turbines at Harringe Brooks Y12/0451/SH. These will open in a new tab.  

Shepway Planning have agreed to attend and answer your questions. Damian Collins, MP., Ecotricity, all the Parish Councils, Protect Kent (CPRE) and Kent Downs AONB have also been invited to add to the debate.

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flyer - The Village Meeting on 26th July

poster - The Village Meeting on 26th July

Stanford Parish Council - additional objection points to 6 wind turbine application

Click on the link below to see Stanford Parish Council's additional points of objection to the Planning Application for the 6 Wind Turbines at Harringe Brooks Y12/0451/SH. This will open in a new tab. 

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Stanford Parish Council - additional points to objection to the Planning Application for 6 wind turbines at Harringe Brooks

Ad watchdog to examine wind farm protest leaflet

The article below was published on 1st August 2012 in the Folkestone Herald. To read the article more easily (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 if you prefer.

Message from Our Chairman - Why demonstrate

Dear Fellow Villager,

I am writing to you about wind power to accompany an article (see a copy by going to the coloured Section 2, in the right-hand column, and clicking on the item entitled '* New 02)  'Germany's wind power chaos is a warning to us' by Christopher Brooker in the Sunday Telegraph and published last weekend. I hope his article and my email  below will ensure that you come and join our demonstration at the Sellindge Sports & Social Club in Swan Lane at 1.30pm on Saturday 29^th September (tomorrow).

When most of us first heard about wind power to generate electricity we welcomed it with enthusiasm. After all, wind comes free of charge. Free energy – what a wonderful idea! But slowly at first, we began to discover that nothing comes for free, least of all wind power. The so called ‘bribes’ to local authorities who are prepared to accept wind turbines have to be paid for. Who pays? We who pay our electricity bills pay. The rent that is paid to farmers or land owners –  according to Press Reports up to £40,000 per turbine per year – a small fortune - has to be paid. Who pays? We who pay our electricity bills pay. Then there is the huge cost of manufacture and installation together with maintenance. Who pays – we who pay our electricity bills pay. As Christopher Brooker points out in his article, Germany has 29,000 wind turbines and they have the most expensive electricity in Europe.

One of the reasons for the high cost of generating electricity from the ‘free’ wind power is that the wind doesn’t always blow. Two issues arise from this unreliability of wind power. The first is that wind power in the UK is only 25% efficient. Companies like Ecotricity claim a capacity to provide electricity for so many thousands of homes. That is if they could run at 100% efficiency. But they don’t. They run at an average of 25%, merely a quarter of what they claim. Then there is the amazing fact that to ensure that our supplies of electricity can be met, we must continue to build and run conventional or nuclear power stations. Since in this situation these back up power stations run inefficiently, any carbon saving made by wind power is added back by the conventional processes running when they are not needed..

Now I wonder if you, like me, expect to hear from anyone in authority – anyone – who will give some explanation as to why we who live in the countryside should suffer the imposition of such huge machine with their noise and movement and malign presence when the claims made for wind power are false. Yes, it might be true that 65% of the population welcome Wind Turbines but of those, how many live in countryside where wind turbines might be built  and indeed how many of the city dwellers have ever seen a wind turbine – not many.

In opposing the Ecotricity Planning Application  for six turbines in Sellindge we have to concentrate upon other reasons for stopping them. I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention some of the reasons that cannot be accepted in the Shepway planning debate, about giant wind turbines that should not be built here..

Please do come and join us  in our protest on Saturday.  Radio Kent will be broadcasting  a local interview on Saturday morning at about 7.10am and BBC television and the Press have asked for film and pictures. But most of all, Ecotricity and our Planners will be in no doubt that Sellindge and Lympne are not the right places for six 410ft high wind turbines.

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday,

Ronald Lello

Chairman Sellindge and District Residents Association 

Otterpool Waste Site - take it off the preferred sites list...

From: Susan Carey
To: Margaret Ludlow
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Otterpool waste site.
Hallo Margaret I do not know if the process of obtaining a licence from the Environment Agency will permanently delay Countrystyle starting their operations. I do know that they have plenty of hurdles to overcome to do so and they must also meet all the planning conditions. As for the site being on the preferred options list, I'm afraid that's no more than a recognition that the site has planning permission (albeit with lots of conditions) for a waste operation. We lost that particular battle and must concentrate on making sure that the EA does its job. I agree that housing is preferable to a waste plant but we don't have the choice. Do by all means respond to the consultation on the waste and mineral sites but don't expect to be able to overturn what has already happened through the planning process. Kind regards, Susan

On 10 Jul 2012, at 11:20, "Margaret Ludlow" wrote: 
Dear Susan I had a enormous file from KCC (URS) about the development at Otterpool. I went through it all and I know that they were granted permission to build their awful site at Otterpool. can this be changed in any way or permanently delayed with the help of the Environment agency?. Just recently they Airport Cafe has taken on more staff and open longer hours to cope with increased custom ,and if this waste plant goes ahead they will loose that plus all the other reasons nearly 2000 people do not want it there. Has any of this been taken into account? In an area of outstanding beauty non of this was mentioned in the long report. Please if it can be taken of the preferred sites list it would be wonderful. As Sellindge is down for more houses in the Shepway Core plan it would seem to me to be the lesser of two evils to have a small development in the Quarry and leave the green sites alone in Sellindge. Yours Sincerely Margaret Ludlow.

Lympne Parish Council response to the six Wind Turbine Planning Application Harringe Brooks

Click on the link below to see a copy of the letter sent by Lympne Parish Council to Shepway District Council with comments on Planning Application No. Y12/0451/SH (Six Wind Turbines at Harringe Brook). This will open in a new tab. 

Lympne Parish Council response to Shewpay District Council re the 6 Wind Turbines Planning Application 

Government plans to break its own climate change law

The article below was published on 29th July 2012 in The Sunday telgraph. To read the article more easily (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.  

Folkestone racecourse to close at end of season

Click on the link below, which opens in a new tab, to read an article in the KM News about Folkestone racecourse to close at the end of the season.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/july/27/folkestone_racing_to_close.aspx

Axe held over 60 jobs as racecourse to close

The articles below were published on or around the 1st August 2012 in the local papers. To read each article more easily (enlarge the print) click on its image. Once you have read that one, click on the back-arrow in the top left of the screen of that image to return to here. Then select the next image to read and so on. 

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