Why is ESCC WMDF farce continuing rather than starting again from scratch?

by Administrator 11. February 2010 17:26

East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove Council really are pursuing a WMD policy in their attempts to destroy the East Sussex Low Weald with ill advised land raise sites

 

We have heard from a whole range of experts who confirm that there are enormous problems with the current ESCC land raise waste proposals; these range across all the whole spectrum from Ancient Woodland to Visual Eyesores and include Water Pollution, Road Capacity, Proximity and so on .....

 

Furthermore there is universal all party condemnation for these retrograde land raise proposals

 

Therefore, why is East Sussex County Council continuing to pursue their monumentally flawed land raise policy in spite of all evidence to the contrary?

 

All the advice so far has suggested that ESCC scrap the current proposals and start again - yet nothing seems to be happening except a pointless assessment exercise about 'counting' all the objections so far. We all know of these objections so what will 'counting' them achieve except more delays; especially as no one at ESCC has so far addressed any of the objections by answering them

 

It is worth noting that any current assessment which conveniently ignores all the historic objections (CLEAR etc) is clearly meaningless and solely geared to favour ESCC stance. With this in mind we need a statement from Councillor Lock assuring us that all historic information has been taken into account

 

Why is ESCC not listening to the people of East Sussex, Norman Baker, Charles Hendry and every other advisory body that has been consulted who all confirm that ESCC policy is a disaster. Nevertheless ESCC continue relentlessly with this disastrous policy by burying their collective heads in the sand?

 

If ESCC were listening they would abandon the current fruitless exercise of reviewing the objections and actually move forward constructively by starting the whole process again from scratch

 

What particular reasons can ESCC have for ignoring the people of East Sussex

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2/12/2010 6:33:10 PM #

Christopher T Pellett

"Why is East Sussex County Council continuing to pursue their monumentally flawed land raise policy in spite of all evidence to the contrary?"

Probably because Veolia asked for it.

"Why is ESCC not listening to the people of East Sussex?"

I think Councillor Locke was quoted: "we have difficult decisions" - so; put up five sites, consult (a sham) with the residents, let them fight it out, choose one site and 80% go away happy thinking they have won.
It's a textbook method of obtaining planning: divide and conquer.
The last plan started with consulting the industry, which if fair enough. ESCC drew up the (weak) plan and it was put out to tender.
This time Veolia already have the contract.
Councillor Locke's difficult decision is; should his plan lead the way or should he just bow to commercial pressure?

It could be worth noting that Andrew Woodisse, (who worked as sidekick for Bob Wilkins with the old plan,) now works for Scott Wilson, commissioned by ESCC to come up with the "opportunity areas"(Oh what a lovely phrase!)
And surprise surprise, Scott Wilson are also commissioned by Veolia to plan and develop their sites!

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