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Preferred Options consultation document

Representation ID: 98166

Received: 04/10/2019

Respondent: Mr I McIntyre

Representation Summary:

PROPOSED QUARRY AT WAVENEY FOREST FRITTON. 2019/20 Consultation!
What I find particularly irksome about this application is that in making it at all the applicants are seemingly prepared, with the owners, to discount previous arrangements made under Crown aegis, for continuance of the forest as a public amenity.
For some forty years the forest was maintained as a working and amenity forest by central government funding via the Forestry Commission before being (mistakenly?) sold into private hands. Subsequently the current custodians 'took the queen's shilling' in the form of Forestry Commission help to enhance the future amenity value of the forest. See FIGURE 1 below for exact text
Some time after mooting plans for a quarry the owners confined forest access to the pre-existing rights of way and later both the 'walkers welcome' notices bearing FIGURE l text were removed from the forest entry points complete with the Crown emblems.
To discount the continuance of this amenity forest in this manner must surely be wrong? - What would Her Majesty say? Some insight may be gained from Her Majesty's words to Commonwealth Heads of Government.
"I have been especially touched by one such project, The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy, which has been proposed by Commonwealth countries wanting to harness their collective expertise and resources to protect the world's forests"
I trust that you will allow the Waveney Forest to continue in being ~

Full text:

PROPOSED QUARRY AT WAVENEY FOREST FRITTON. 2019/20 Consultation!
What I find particularly irksome about this application is that in making it at all the applicants are seemingly prepared, with the owners, to discount previous arrangements made under Crown aegis, for continuance of the forest as a public amenity.
For some forty years the forest was maintained as a working and amenity forest by central government funding via the Forestry Commission before being (mistakenly?) sold into private hands. Subsequently the current custodians 'took the queen's shilling' in the form of Forestry Commission help to enhance the future amenity value of the forest. See FIGURE 1 below for exact text
Some time after mooting plans for a quarry the owners confined forest access to the pre-existing rights of way and later both the 'walkers welcome' notices bearing FIGURE l text were removed from the forest entry points complete with the Crown emblems.
To discount the continuance of this amenity forest in this manner must surely be wrong? - What would Her Majesty say? Some insight may be gained from Her Majesty's words to Commonwealth Heads of Government.
I have been especially touched by one such project, The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy, which has been proposed by Commonwealth countries wanting to harness their collective expertise and resources to protect the world's forests"
I trust that you will allow the Waveney Forest to continue in being ~