STOP!
22 Football pitches of farmland dug up
A hole the size of 420 Olympic Swimming pools
126 Heavy trucks per day
In an area prized for being “Tranquil and Unspoilt”
Does it affect Me?
The impacts of this Quarry will be felt far and wide.
Silica Dust – Well known health risks, The World Health Organisation stated when it comes to particulate matter, “there is no evidence of a safe level of exposure or threshold below which no adverse health effects occur”.
Noise Pollution – Constant loud machinery and heavy trucks on roads, not compatible with a very quiet rural area, misery for people and wildlife.
Light Pollution – A massively underestimated amenity, many people enjoyed viewing the Northern lights and meteor showers, floodlights across the whole site will ruin the dark night skies.
Environmental Pollution – The scoping document admits consideration will need to be paid to “… the potential for pollution or contamination reaching the groundwater in the event of any fuel spillage.”
Flooding – Could removing and back filling 1,700,000 tonnes of minerals have an effect on water run off into the River Fynn under 1km from the site?
Traffic – A HGV every 4 minutes on the B1077, exhaust fumes, increased road erosion, and trucks heading towards Ipswich will have a railway crossing to contend with.
Local businesses – Under pressure, would you book a luxury lodge next to a Quarry? As one resident put it “makes the directions for wedding guests easy, turn right at the Quarry”.
Loss of Farmland – For how long can we keep destroying Farms. When they are gone, they are gone. How many industrial brown field sites have been turned back into farmed fields?
No doubt the full application, when it comes, will have answers for all these issues and more, that’s why we need help.
The only way to stop this is with hard facts. We need references to scientific papers, we need references to violations of environmental policies, planning policies, human rights policies. We have to show the planners that not only common sense says this should not be built here, but that it is not legal to build it here.
We are playing catch-up, the applicant has been preparing for over two and a half years. When the application goes in we will have 21 days to respond, if we wait till then to fight this, it will be too late. We need to act now!