Object

Representation ID: 99099

Received: 28/09/2022

Respondent: Mr Andrew Bluss

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

My primary concern is with MIN 115 (Lord Anson's Wood, North Walsham). As stated in my previous submission of representation, the impact on the environment alone would be catastrophic!! The acreage of trees that would be destroyed, the associated wildlife that thrives in such a diverse ecosystem. Our own food chain relies on these creatures. From the tiniest of insects to the bees that pollinate our crops to the birds that grace our skies. All would be lost just so we can put a hole in the ground, remove what lies beneath and, when finished in a relatively small timespan, leave it a condition that is beyond the environmental repair that took millennia to create. Planting a few saplings as a token effort of appeasement is nowhere near sufficient.

Then there is the the question of the pollution caused, not just from the extraction and removal process involving hundreds of lorries using our narrow country roads but also the building of the plant in the first instance. Mud during the wet seasons! Dust during the dry seasons! Noise from the mining equipment! These are just three examples of what is going to happen despite anything the proposers of this site will say. They do not have to live here. I, and my neighbours, will have to endure all this!

We then have to address the facts that the location is of nationally historic interest. With the site of the Battle of North Walsham plus the crash site of a World War II aircraft plus any other archaeological items from antiquity that are still to be unearthed.

There are other similar mineral rich veins within and around the United Kingdom that could be removed without causing the disturbance this proposal will. I totally object!!

Soundness test: not justified