STOP the INCINERATOR on Rivenhall Airfield
Notice of 2 Public Meetings

A public meeting is to be held on Friday October 10th, starting at 7.30pm at Feering Community Centre to discuss the planning application for a regional waste site and waste incinerator at Rivenhall Airfield.

Another meeting will be held a week later on Friday 17th October, starting at 7.30pm at Bradwell Village Hall.

The meetings are open to all and will be an opportunity to view the full planning application documents and to receive a report on the implications of the development, as well as finding how to make representations. Comments have to be sent to Essex County Council by October 29th. The campaign is calling for Essex County Council to refuse the application or failing that, for a full public planning inquiry to be held.

The meetings have been organised by District Councillors James Abbott and Philip Hughes and the Feering meeting is being supported by Kelvedon and Feering Heritage Society.

The Stop the Incinerator campaign is a non-political cross-community campaign to oppose the regional waste site and incinerator proposed for Rivenhall Airfield, which is a site in open countryside with villages around it. These include Rivenhall, Silver End, Cressing, Bradwell, Coggeshall, Feering and Kelvedon. Witham could also be affected. The main issues are:

• Emissions to air of gases, particulates, bioaerosols and odours
• Health impacts on people and wildlife
• Loss of farmland and impacts on surrounding land of accumulation of pollutants in soils
• Increased HGV traffic on the A120 and connecting roads
• Destruction of woodlands and other habitats of known protected and listed species
• Impact on the listed buildings at Woodhouse Farm
• Impacts on footpaths
• Increased noise and light pollution in what is currently a very quiet area at night
• Landscape impacts - including from the incinerator chimney (at least 35 metres tall)
• The 2 year, 7 days a week construction period
• The 24/7 operation of the plant when built
• Impacts on recycling in Braintree District
• Proposing alternatives to the plans in order to boost recycling

A mass leaflet of households in the affected villages starts this week encouraging people to send in representations about the application to Essex County Council.

For further information, including the latest briefing note on the application, please contact
James Abbott
01376 584576
07951 923073
Or visit www.bugleonline.co.uk
and www.ukwin.org.uk