THOUSANDS of villagers have taken up the fight against “medieval” plans for monstrous mountains of waste in a picturesque part of Britain.
ESCC County planners have earmarked five 60-acre sites near rural homes, rivers and ancient woodland to dump 80ft mounds of rubbish ......
Daily Express Newspaper - 21 February 2010
This is a worrying statement from Rupert Clubb, East Sussex’s director of transport and environment
Mr Clubb said they were analysing 3,000 responses to a consultation which closed in January. He added: “There are some well-considered and well-informed responses that might influence a future decision but it is too early for me to say.”
Now hang on here - NO mention has been made about the historic objections raised the last time around. What is happening about the historic objections by CLEAR and others; could ESCC please confirm that they have these historic objections in their posession and that they will be taken into account
Will ESCC please place all the previous historic objections into the public domain so that we know they are being considered as part of the process
'.. MIGHT INFLUENCE A FUTURE DECISION ..' - so it really does't matter how many reasoned arguments against land raise are put forward it could all be for nothing, because someone in ESCC makes an arbitrary decison behind closed doors!
It would seem that the only thing that '.. might influence ..' anything is an impending election rather than any cogent argument. Don't forget that this is a political world and we are lead to believe that the only reason ESCC abandoned the last land raise attempt was because those in power feared being voted out in a backlash over land raise. Perhaps the ballot box is the only way force the current land raise plans to be re-thought; it is just a pity we cannot vote some East Sussex County Council empolyees out of office!
Can ESCC please provide names and qualifications of all those who will be involved in the decison process so that we can be assured of sufficient competency, impartiality and also that it is not already a 'done deal'
(see Norman Baker - '.. it is a matter of record that the councils decided to enter into a contract with Onyx to provide an incinerator before this Public Inquiry even began..'