Please see below information.
1/ Further investigations have taken place into the reports of recent noise from Saxon Pit and it has been established that noise that took place this morning was overnight works by Network Rail and not anything to do with the waste operators at Saxon Pit.
I would be grateful if you could circulate this information, alongside the confirmation that I sent yesterday that the other reports of noise were also not to do with the waste operators at Saxon Pit.
Kind regards.
Deborah Jeakins
Manager, County Planning, Minerals and Waste
2/ I have contacted both of the waste operators working within Saxon Pit to make them aware of these allegations and both operators have replied.
EMWG have replied:
The generator that powers the weighbridge and office and external lights on the office is switched off at 17:00 every day and is not started up again until 06:30-07:00 in the morning Mon – Friday when the office opens again. EMWM do not work on the site at night.
EMWM were not working on the buttress on Sat 1 March so the noise at 07:00 was nothing to do with them.
Johnsons have replied:
I have double checked with the guys on site and can confirm that the early morning noise were clearly not us as we were definitely not running at those times. 1st and 2nd March we had had no-one on site.
They did confirm that the lights seen in one of the videos are from their site, but they deny that their site was responsible for the noise reported.
Both operators noted that the noise could have been from the overnight roadworks that were on the A605 in connection with the emergency water main repair and so is it possible that the noises heard by the complainant were from these works?
Without further information from the complainant (e.g. where they live, which way the camera was facing), and noting the information provided by the operators about other potential sources of noise, there is not enough evidence at this time to confirm that the noise and disturbance was from operations at Saxon Pit.
Kind regards
Deborah Jeakins
Manager, County Planning, Minerals and Waste