Object
Initial Consultation document
Representation ID: 92272
Received: 13/08/2018
Respondent: Mrs Danielle Wales
I would like to lodge an OBJECTION to proposed site SIL 02 as a preferred site for silica sand extraction on the following grounds:
1 This area lies adjacent to the village of Marham which would be greatly affected by this development over a number of decades with a devaluing of house prices and no obvious gains for the village or its residents.
2. The increased and unsuitable effects of industrial, HGV and works traffic on what are unsuitable roads. These roads would be impossibly difficult to widen due to the margins and the close proximity of ditches bordering the site. Whilst it suggested that eventually pipes would take the extracted sand to another site at Leziate, this would take many years to provide and necessitate a great deal of roadworks and adverse affects to local trunk roads, whilst affecting many neighbouring areas and villages over a long period of time. NB. At present the RAF have been prohibited from accessing the base through the village which sets precedence in this aspect. An alternative access through Shouldham village would likewise, be unsuitable.
2. The health risks associated with silica sand and its potential threat to villagers would be very difficult to mitigate and guarantee and would create undue anxiety and increased pressure on a burdened health service locally.
3. The environmental effects on the site which at present support large colonies of birds ie. plovers, oyster catches and other wildlife would be irrevocably affected.
The area also runs parallel to the River Nar and the obvious implications of pollution, would affect the river system and its ecology and its designation SSSI and Core River Valley status. The demolition of the ancient drainage system which runs across this site would further affect the environment both from ecological and flood risk aspects.
4. It would also affect the Public's access to the Nar Valley Way and necessitate a diversion outside the 100m permitted.
5. This site also is the location of a rich archeological history from Pre-historical to Medieval which would be compromised by the development.
Overall the landscape would irrevocably be altered to great detriment to the area and the local villages and residents within.
I would like to lodge an OBJECTION to proposed site SIL 02 as a preferred site for silica sand extraction on the following grounds:
1 This area lies adjacent to the village of Marham which would be greatly affected by this development over a number of decades with a devaluing of house prices and no obvious gains for the village or its residents.
2. The increased and unsuitable effects of industrial, HGV and works traffic on what are unsuitable roads. These roads would be impossibly difficult to widen due to the margins and the close proximity of ditches bordering the site. Whilst it suggested that eventually pipes would take the extracted sand to another site at Leziate, this would take many years to provide and necessitate a great deal of roadworks and adverse affects to local trunk roads, whilst affecting many neighbouring areas and villages over a long period of time. NB. At present the RAF have been prohibited from accessing the base through the village which sets precedence in this aspect. An alternative access through Shouldham village would likewise, be unsuitable.
2. The health risks associated with silica sand and its potential threat to villagers would be very difficult to mitigate and guarantee and would create undue anxiety and increased pressure on a burdened health service locally.
3. The environmental effects on the site which at present support large colonies of birds ie. plovers, oyster catches and other wildlife would be irrevocably affected.
The area also runs parallel to the River Nar and the obvious implications of pollution, would affect the river system and its ecology and its designation SSSI and Core River Valley status. The demolition of the ancient drainage system which runs across this site would further affect the environment both from ecological and flood risk aspects.
4. It would also affect the Public's access to the Nar Valley Way and necessitate a diversion outside the 100m permitted.
5. This site also is the location of a rich archeological history from Pre-historical to Medieval which would be compromised by the development.
Overall the landscape would irrevocably be altered to great detriment to the area and the local villages and residents within.