Object
Initial Consultation document
Representation ID: 92320
Received: 12/08/2018
Respondent: Mr David Bignell
I would like to formally issue an objection to the proposed Silica extraction SIL-02 at Marham Fen.
Marham village as a collective are already exposed to significant noise pollution from the adjacent RAF Marham airfield and operations. This can be from early morning to late at night. Traditionally from Tornado aircraft flight operations, but recently exacerbated by the introduction of the Lightening F35 squadrons being built up at RAF Marham.
The SIL-02 proposal adds to the noise pollution but also adds to the impact on the immediate environment. Marham village will be effectively stuck between a very busy RAF camp on one side and a Silica extraction site on the other, the village forming a narrow corridor between the two very significant environmental detractors.
Other proposed sites are not impacted by such environmentally extreme operations directly adjacent to their lives. Irrespective of the extent of short term profiteering the SIL-02 operation would deliver to the operating company (with no benefit whatsoever to the local community), it is immoral and unethical to subject a localised community to both of these high impacting 24/7 environmental operations for an estimated 20-25 year period.
There simply must be a viable alternative, that may not be so profitable, but avoids dumping such a heavy environmental burden on a single community.
The negative impact of either operation (disturbed sleep, noise, light and air pollution) is significant but combined places an unacceptable impact on a village of PEOPLE stuck between the two.
I would like to formally issue an objection to the proposed Silica extraction SIL-02 at Marham Fen.
Marham village as a collective are already exposed to significant noise pollution from the adjacent RAF Marham airfield and operations. This can be from early morning to late at night. Traditionally from Tornado aircraft flight operations, but recently exacerbated by the introduction of the Lightening F35 squadrons being built up at RAF Marham.
The SIL-02 proposal adds to the noise pollution but also adds to the impact on the immediate environment. Marham village will be effectively stuck between a very busy RAF camp on one side and a Silica extraction site on the other, the village forming a narrow corridor between the two very significant environmental detractors.
Other proposed sites are not impacted by such environmentally extreme operations directly adjacent to their lives. Irrespective of the extent of short term profiteering the SIL-02 operation would deliver to the operating company (with no benefit whatsoever to the local community), it is immoral and unethical to subject a localised community to both of these high impacting 24/7 environmental operations for an estimated 20-25 year period.
There simply must be a viable alternative, that may not be so profitable, but avoids dumping such a heavy environmental burden on a single community.
The negative impact of either operation (disturbed sleep, noise, light and air pollution) is significant but combined places an unacceptable impact on a village of PEOPLE stuck between the two.