Object
Preferred Options consultation document
Representation ID: 98103
Received: 16/10/2019
Respondent: Mr & Mrs Peter & Ann Forster
Number of people: 2
Extraction of Minerals at Manson Plantation. Shortthorn Road. Stratton Strawless.
I am writing to you on behalf of my wife and I regarding information received from the Parish Council on the proposal to extract sand and gravel from Manson Plantation by Cemex. Norfolk County Council has proposed that site as one of their Preferred Options under their Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan, but it appears to us they do not seem to have understood the extreme adverse implications such a vast undertaking, covering some 50 acres, would have on the
area.
The whole area, including Manson Plantation, has a natural and rural eco-system and the environment as a whole supports a variety of wildlife. The Planning Permission already granted for a holiday lodge park on the site including a landscape plan seems quite acceptable, but the proposal for extraction of sand and gravel over such a large area and time scale, (may be more than 8 years to complete), is NOT acceptable to us. The following are comments we wish to make as to the likely effects the proposal could have on the area:
(1) Shortthorn Road is not a very wide road and the estimated heavy lorry movements of 76 per day, which could go in either direction, would result in a lot of traffic which the road was not designed to take.
(2) The noise nuisance factor from the site itself and also from the lorries would be a disturbance not only to the residents living near the site but also to the variety of wildlife which would also have its habitat devastated, most likely for all time.
(3) We consider the buffer/screening belt of approximately 60 metres would not be wide enough to mask the processes on the site.
(4) We are not yet aware of any plans to sympathetically return the site to a landscaped area after all the extraction has finished. If any such remedial work takes place it would not satisfactorily replace the long-established existing stable and natural environment
My wife and I feel that the devastation caused by the proposal should not be allowed to happen.
Extraction of Minerals at Manson Plantation. Shortthorn Road. Stratton Strawless.
I am writing to you on behalf of my wife and I regarding information received from the Parish Council on the proposal to extract sand and gravel from Manson Plantation by Cemex. Norfolk County Council has proposed that site as one of their Preferred Options under their Norfolk Minerals and Waste Local Plan, but it appears to us they do not seem to have understood the extreme adverse implications such a vast undertaking, covering some 50 acres, would have on the area.
The whole area, including Manson Plantation, has a natural and rural eco-system and the environment as a whole supports a variety of wildlife. The Planning Permission already granted for a holiday lodge park on the site including a landscape plan seems quite acceptable, but the proposal for extraction of sand and gravel over such a large area and time scale, (may be more than 8 years to complete), is NOT acceptable to us. The following are comments we wish to make as to the likely effects the proposal could have on the area:
(1) Shortthorn Road is not a very wide road and the estimated heavy lorry movements of 76 per day, which could go in either direction, would result in a lot of traffic which the road was not designed to take.
(2) The noise nuisance factor from the site itself and also from the lorries would be a disturbance not only to the residents living near the site but also to the variety of wildlife which would also have its habitat devastated, most likely for all time.
(3) We consider the buffer/screening belt of approximately 60 metres would not be wide enough to mask the processes on the site.
(4) We are not yet aware of any plans to sympathetically return the site to a landscaped area after all the extraction has finished. If any such remedial work takes place it would not satisfactorily replace the long-established existing stable and natural environment
My wife and I feel that the devastation caused by the proposal should not be allowed to happen.