This upcoming application to process some 250,000 tonnes of Bottom End Ash and 50,000 tonnes of construction and waste material is nearing the end of the consulation period.
If you wish to make any representation you need to do so by 18th March
e-mail to planningdc@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Title: Former Saxon Brickworks CCC/21/024/FUL
Below is part of an objection put together by Mr Clive Vaughan.
(You can only object on planning grounds and not just because you don’t like it.)
DON’T FORGET TO PUT YOUR NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS AT THE END OF EACH OBJECTION.
Our Health Johnsons Aggregates & Recycling Ltd assures us that Incinerator Bottom Ash is a non-hazardous material.
Other points of objection could be:
Highways. 96 HGV movements per day (48 in and 48 out). This would result in a predicted 6 HGV movements in the morning peak hour and 3 in the evening peak. This represents a serious escalation of heavy traffic on the very busy A605. This expansion will add considerably to vehicle noise and air pollution.
Road Safety is also a key issue with 48 lorries turning right into Saxon from the direction of Peterborough every day on average with 6 in the busy morning peak hour, increasing accident risk. Such heavy traffic also results in the A605 road surface being constantly muddy and dangerously slippery in wet weather.
Noise. Modelling by Clements Acoustics Consultancy is against a ‘nothing changes’ scenario. But more heavy traffic will lead to more potholes on the already battered A605 road surface. When a fully laden lorry hits an A605 pothole our houses shake, and the impact can be heard over the TV.
The nature of the proposed loads. Incinerator bottom ash may well be non-hazardous but construction and demolish waste sounds like something to be very wary of. How will the contractor guarantee that every single load will be “non-hazardous material” especially of construction and demolish waste when asbestos is in many demolished buildings.
Dust. It is hard to see how 48 lorries per day, carrying loads of IBA and C&D along the pock-marked surface of the A605 can avoid spewing dust, to aggravate the breathing problems of vulnerable Whittlesey residents.
Operating times. Importation and depositing on site, in the designated storage areas, of IBA and C&D material – 24/7 including Sundays and Bank Holidays (except Christmas Day). Round the clock arrival of vehicles is unacceptable to a site just 250 metres of people’s homes.
Direction of lorries. Johnsons Aggregates assure us in their supporting planning documentation that all lorries will enter and leave the site from the direction of Peterborough. Really? No lorry driver will want diesel/fags/coffee/snacks etc and turn east towards Whittlesey to get these!!
Environmental impact. An estimated 6,600 tonnes of CO2 per annum just from the diesel burnt to get all this waste from Nottinghamshire. Then there is nitrogenous oxide and particulate pollution from burning diesel, from brake linings and wear of tyres.
Damage to road surfaces. The A605 already suffers considerable pounding from the high level of HGV traffic. Seeking to further increase such traffic will only push up the cost of repairs.
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE AN OBJECTION, PLEASE DO SO AGAIN CITING ADDITIONAL POINTS OF OBJECTION – AND TWO OR MORE PEOPLE IN A HOUSEHOLD OBJECTING INDIVIDUALLY COUNTS MORE THAN ONCE.
EVEN MORE EFFECTIVELY, OBJECT POINT BY SEPARATE POINT SO THAT YOU ARE SUBMITTING MULTIPLE OBJECTIONS!!!
DON’T FORGET TO PUT YOUR NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS AT THE END OF EACH OBJECTION.
