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« Thread Started on May 9, 2008, 5:59pm » | |
Below is an extract from the planning website.
Application
No 08/0462/FUL Date of
Application 23 Apr 2008
Case Officer Stephen Mogridge Application
Type Full Application
Proposal Proposed organic free range egg unit
Site Lamberts Lane Stables
Lamberts Lane
Congleton
Cheshire
Applicant Mr. Eckert 26 Kirkwall Grove
Milton
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST2 7PH
Agent Mr. Richard Foxely Woodthorne
Wergs Road
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV6 8TQ
Status Pending Consideration
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« Reply #1 on May 16, 2008, 10:48am » | |
The correspondence so far in the Chronicle regarding the Planning Committee has been scathing, having attended the previous public meetings I must agree, and furthermore the conduct of certain members of the committee was infantile.
Under the Freedom of Information Act as I understand it, servants of a public body can be forced to disclose all information whether written or verbal. This means that our elected councillors, or the public for that matter, cannot be hoodwinked by members of council staff.
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« Reply #2 on May 19, 2008, 8:21am » | |
where's the reaction!
are we going to let it happen through complacency this time?
thought there would be indignation and fury here
is anyone mounting any action this time?
the whole thing is a load of bobbins - the wagon weights are stupid - 3000 chickens will eat around 500kg of food a day give or take - so a 10 tonne load will last 3 weeks
their eggs will not weigh more than the food and will be shifted more frequently than that - so where is the need for big wagons - no-one seems to be asking about this !!
and how about viability - no way it can be a viable business if he has to start from scratch - exisisting businesses with infrastructure are not viable, never mind having to put in a road (sic) etc
dont know the rules re viability - is there a need for a proposed business to be viable?
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« Reply #3 on May 19, 2008, 10:48am » | |
Hi PC,
Thanks for your input and welcome to the forum. John Hibbert distributed the leaflet below yesterday to several hundred houses so things are starting to move. Hopefully our local papers will have more to say this week, this forum is new and unknown but better than sitting on hands and waiting for the next person.
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THIS CONCERNS YOU:-
Re. REF 08/0462/FUL Planning Application.
As you know an application has again been made for a large commercial poultry unit on Lamberts Lane Bridleway. The original application was refused in November of last year on environmental grounds. The new application is only a resubmission of the original report with no significant change in content.
The bridleway is part of a nature trail and should be preserved for all the walkers, horse riders and cyclists who enjoy its use. Its beauty belongs to the people of Congleton and should always remain so. This much-admired area has been designated as one of the very few remaining nature corridors in Cheshire and deserves to be preserved. If this proposal is passed it will be a commercial gain for one at the expense of an environmental loss for many.
If this application is passed heavy goods vehicles will be coming past your homes on a regular basis as they will have 24 hour access to service the poultry unit. (Vehicles of motorway proportions using a bridleway !)
This cannot be allowed to happen because of the loss to our environment.
Please act now to stop this. Write to your elected MP, Lady Winterton, asking for her support in objecting to this environmental destruction. Also, write to Stephen Mogridge, the Interim Development Control Manager, at Congleton Borough Council. Letters to him most arrive by 27th May 2008, so very prompt action is essential.
Their addresses are as follows :
Lady Winterton MP,
Member of Parliament for Congleton,
Riverside
Mountbatten Way,
CONGLETON, CW12 1DY
Mr. Stephen Mogridge,
Interim Development Control Manager,
Congleton Borough Council,
Westfields,
Middlewich Road,
SANDBACH, CW11 1HZ
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« Reply #4 on May 22, 2008, 1:47pm » | |
To destroy a beautiful area of land where I played as a child, and have returned to spend my evening years nearby, is a disgrace.
Ignoring my personal views, which may be classed emotional, there are the real dangers of physical injury and medical injury. Horses, pedestrians, cyclists and children on a narrow country bridleway are not compatible with any type of motor vehicle. Regarding health, a report by Turner makes interesting reading: Ammonia gas escaping into the atmosphere is a serious pollutant linked to acid rain. Studies have shown that egg farms have one of the highest farm emission rates of ammonia gas. Laying-hen houses in the UK have also been found to have levels of ammonia and inhalable dust close to or over the regulated limits for continuous exposure for animals or for 8-hour occupational exposure for stockpersons (Turner, 1999). I can’t imagine Health & Safety Exec advising nursery school children access to Lamberts Lane on either score.
3000 free range hens can produce about 5000 eggs per month which at today’s wholesale prices is not exactly a money spinner, making me curios to what the real motive is.
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« Reply #5 on Jun 5, 2008, 5:58pm » | |
I've set up a petition on the Prime Minister's web site. Anybody can add their name, by visiting:-
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lambertslane/
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« Reply #6 on Jun 21, 2008, 2:38pm » | |
Despite Gordon Brown promising to listen there is no evidence of him doing so, why should he even bother to take note of a petition regarding a poultry farm when he won’t listen to the majority of the British people who want a referendum?
Only one conclusive point emerges from Downing St petitions; the government has more information about the private details of those who sign it.
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« Reply #7 on Jul 9, 2008, 4:34pm » | |
Leaflet from Mr John Hibbert.
Attention Local Residents
Major Development
( Poultry Unit) Notice under article 12B Development affecting Public Right of Way
Application No. 08/0462/FUL.
Hearing to be held at Sandbach Town Hall at 7pm. On Tuesday 15th July 2008
As you know an application has again been made for a large commercial poultry unit on Lamberts Lane Bridleway. The original application was refused in November of last year on environmental grounds. The new application is only a resubmission of the original report with no significant change in content.
The bridleway is part of a nature trail and should be preserved for all the walkers, horse riders and cyclists who enjoy its use. Its beauty belongs to the people of Congleton and should always remain so. This much-admired area has been designated as one of the very few remaining nature corridors in Cheshire and deserves to be preserved. If this proposal is passed it will be a commercial gain for one at the expense of an environmental loss for many.
If this application is passed heavy goods vehicles will be coming past your homes on a regular basis as they will have 24 hour access to service the poultry unit. (Vehicles of motorway proportions using a bridleway !)
This cannot be allowed to happen because of the loss to our environment.
Please attend this meeting to show your opposition to the proposed development and change of usage to Lamberts Lane. After the massive turnout at the last Planning Meeting it is still most important that you attend this meeting to leave the Planning committee in no doubt that residents are totally against the plans that have been put forward for our area.
John Hibbert
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« Reply #8 on Jul 15, 2008, 9:07am » | |
My wife has lived in Congleton all her life and can remember a poultry farm in Astbury several years ago. When the wind was blowing this way the stench was appalling. Has this problem been mentioned by anyone? Lamberts Lane is a lot closer than Astbury, so the smell of chicken manure would surely be even stronger! Fight On!!!!
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« Reply #9 on Jul 15, 2008, 2:44pm » | |
Hi Paul,
You name it and it has been raised. Here are only a few examples.
Emissions of Ammonia Gas linked to acid rain.
Road not wide enough for vehicles to pass.
Lamberts Lane usually clogged with illegally parked vehicles on footpaths.
A police recovery vehicle became bogged down.
Refuse vehicles don’t use the road.
Consultant regarding Great Crested News, claimed a particular pond was a temporary affair despite it been shown on OS maps for decades.
These are not all that out our planning officers have chosen to ignore, and our councillors do not have the balls to take them to task.
The meeting on 15 July is in Sandbach would you believe, most strange when I believe the majority of the planning committee live near to Congleton. Are they trying to avoid the 300 or so people that showed up at the last meeting held in Congleton?
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« Reply #10 on Jul 15, 2008, 3:14pm » | |
John Hibbert has just phoned me to advise the applicant has withdrawn his application, the meeting for 15 July regarding this matter is cancelled.
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« Reply #11 on May 10, 2009, 4:20pm » | |
I’ve been annoyed by a high pitched screeching noise from Old Lamberts Lane on Sat & Sun (9 & 10 May 09). On examination I discover the owner of the far end stables, has apparently employed a contractor to cut the hedges and canopy. The mess is appalling, many birds’ nests have disappeared and the hedge banks destroyed in places by the tyres of the large tractor used to cut the hedges and trees.
I understand that farmers are asked to restrict hedge cutting during April to October time to protect birds and wild life, I don’t know if there is anything in law, but the unnecessary wanton desecration beggars belief, and in my opinion a pre curser of another planning application, hoping perhaps to receive more sympathetic treatment from Cheshire East.
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« Reply #12 on May 10, 2009, 7:43pm » | |
Contact Cheshire East Council
Westfields
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
Cheshire
CW11 1HZ
Tel: 0300 123 55 00
Phone rather than email - they respond better to that in my experience.
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