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Senior Tory: High Heavens is 'stadium on smaller scale'
12:50pm Friday 2nd September 2011 in Business News By James Nadal
Senior Tory: High Heavens is 'stadium on smaller scale'
REDEVELOPMENT proposals for High Heavens rubbish tip pose the same road problems as the binned community stadium, a senior Tory says.
Conservative controlled Buckinghamshire County Council want to build a waste transfer station at the Clay Lane site as part of a larger project to build an incinerator in north Bucks.
However, it will create 158 vehicle movements, including HGVs, per day, leading to concerns over traffic and noise.
High Heavens is opposite Wycombe Air Park, where the new ground for Wasps and Wycombe Wanderers was proposed.
Ex-BCC Chairman Councillor Bob Woollard blasted those proposals, saying the road infrastructure would need millions of pounds of County Hall investment.
This week he said this week road issues remain for High Heavens.
Cllr Woollard, who chairs a High Heavens liaison committee, has been opposed to any major expansion for years and said the road network is “unsuitable”.
Cllr Woollard said: “It's the traffic issue and all the other associated factors of noise, pollution, etc.
“There are no traffic calming measures on that road, there's been many accidents over the years, as the residents will tell you.
“We are back to the stadium thing again but to a smaller extent, again we are in a situation where we are putting the cart before the horse.”
He fears problems on the M40 will lead to alternative routes being sought by vehicles, bringing problems to Lane End, Stokenchurch or Marlow.
He admitted BCC is “between a rock and a hard place” with “astronomic” landfill targets but believes there are alternative sites such as Wapsey's Wood in Beaconsfield.
Waste Recycling Group won the council contract to create the 'energy from waste facility' at Greatmoor in Calvert.
High Heavens would be used to bulk up waste that would be transferred to and from the site.
The project's purpose is to divert waste from landfill and recover energy and materials from waste that can not be recycled by households and businesses.
Dan Murphy, FCC Bid Director, said WRG has been listening to and addressing residents' concerns, particularly about traffic.
BCC is consulting with residents and will continue to accept comments after this ends on September 8.
RESIDENTS have been urged to look at the plans and discuss them with WRG next week.
A public display will be held between 3pm and 8pm on Monday September 5 at Cressex Community School, Holmers Lane, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12, 4QA.
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Comments (23)
1:06pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Slacker says...
1:10pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Trip says...
1:14pm Fri 2 Sep 11
gpn01 says...
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158 vehicles per day = one vehicle every three minutes not three vehicles every minute.
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Other important point is that it's vehicles (= lorries) not cars. That will certainly have a significant impact on the local road infrastructure.
4:56pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Slacker says...
Still much less traffic like my example was supposed to be.
5:07pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
It's all that heavy traffic going through Flackwell...!
5:20pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
Exactly how many oodles and boodles and boodles and oodles and googols of extra vehicle movements is that a year then?
Come on, give us a proper annual estimate.
None of this micro 'it's only 0.004 of a truck every second... like a breeze, you'll barely notice' stuff!
Per year.
On our local, already sorely abused and overused residential roads.
No microtalk.
6:16pm Fri 2 Sep 11
gotanybiscuits? says...
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So where has he been hiding, then??
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It's already a regular feature.
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wakey wakey
6:59pm Fri 2 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
You can hear the contents of some of the more primitive vehicles move up and down when they hit 'flats' or 'imperfections' on certain of our local slopes.
I suspect sometimes there must be astronauts inside some of them being taught how to spacewalk.
9:12pm Fri 2 Sep 11
BOOKERite says...
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It just doesn't make sense, if the waste transfer station is situated in Beaconsfield the vehicles will only have to travel a short distance off the motorway on nice straight duel carriageways, where there are no houses situated and, more importantly, no pedestrians.
11:14am Sat 3 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
When I am about on foot, on some of our local roads, I have to admit to having an 'uh-ooh' moment whenever a 'pawing bull' heaves into view.
1:11pm Sat 3 Sep 11
wayneo says...
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Many of us complain about Councillors (I wonder how many have praised or even noticed the Council for the recent resurfacing works around the District), but we have here, a Councillor who is putting his conviction possibly before his party and is using his position as an elected representative to represent those who would be affected by this development; not only that, he is also considering other residents by warning of the potential cost burden to taxpayers should this development go through.
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I will provide some not so savoury figures later that highlight just what people should expect from having hundreds of 21 tonne bulkers running through the towns and villages such as this.
2:05pm Sat 3 Sep 11
BOOKERite says...
3:41pm Sat 3 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
Some canal network must pass through North Bucks...
To be known as 'The Booker Marlow Recycling Flume'.
That would put us on the map!!!
Why all these mega plans for Booker? Stadium complex with all the bells and whistles? These waste transports?
What's the 3rd mega plan?
What has Booker every done to anyone?
4:32pm Sat 3 Sep 11
BOOKERite says...
Perhaps we should ask the Bucks County Councillor for Booker and Cressex and Sands, Mr Alan Hill, he might know!!
7:58pm Sat 3 Sep 11
Plus ça change... says...
Every = ever...
1:33pm Mon 5 Sep 11
s6blr says...
For those of us living in Marlow Bottom this will be a stench flowing downhill into our valley and into Marlow.
The local roads are already shockingly bad and in very poor condition in a number of places. To treble or more the number of lorry trips will further destroy the roads budget, and greatly remove any remaining safety.
Take a long look at their webpage: http://wrg.co.uk/pag
e.php?article=888&na
me=High+Heavens+Wast
e+Transfer+Station&p
review=true
There are some very disturbing facts there:
What is a Waste Transfer Station?
A Waste Transfer Stations is an enclosed building where local waste collection vehicles deposit their waste cargo prior to it being loaded into larger vehicles. These larger vehicles will transport the waste to the end point of disposal at Greatmoor EfW
>>>Categorically untrue, that shows a doubling of the vehicles to the existing site with no corresponding expansion of the roads.
Where will the waste come from?
Waste arriving at the proposed High Heavens Waste Transfer Station will primarily come from the Wycombe and South Bucks District Council areas. It is expected that some commercial and industrial waste may originate from outside the county boundary
>>> Truth: we're taking 1/2 of all the rubbish in Bucks, and other counties as we deem fit and putting it here.
Why was this site chosen?
The site at High Heavens was recommended for waste activity because of its availability and position in the south of the county, close to urban areas and with good transport links.
>>> Last I checked with the stadium being shot down, transport links was ONE of the reasons it was rejected. There is no junction off of the M40, so Marlow and Lane End will get all the extra traffic.
The best one:
What are the proposed hours of operation?
The hours of operation proposed for High Heavens Waste Transfer Station are:
Monday – Friday 7am-5pm;
Saturday 7am-12noon (Bucks CC’s HWRC sites skip deliveries and up to 10 HGV collections only);
Sunday 8am-12pm (Deliveries from Bucks CC's HWRC sites only);
So 7 day a week, 12-18hr/day noise, traffic and smell.
Fecking great news
3:55pm Mon 5 Sep 11
TheHorsesMouth says...
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Come on think about the green space and what is sensible rather than who owns the land (i.e. the council) at High
Heavens!!!
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The proposals at High Heavens indicate they want to widen the road and re-arrange the entrance.
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So when they widen the road they will be using 6m into the Farmers field, 3m of which will be road. This takes some
100+ mature trees out along the edge of the current road, not to mention the shrubs!
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Widening and altering the entrance will result in cutting down 30+ mature over 50 year old Beech trees.
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The same trees across the road have a TPO on them to supposedly stop developers cutting them down? This TPO has been in effect for nearly 20 years. Why aren't the same style and age of trees across the road not protected? Ah yes, they are on council land? So they don't nee to be protected I suppose? Talk about double standards!
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And @s6blr, the stadium protesters who care about the green belt are back in the trenches!
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4:12pm Mon 5 Sep 11
TheHorsesMouth says...
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And then there is the increase movements along Cressex Road & John Hall Way during the school days and a peak traffic periods!
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No Schools or peak traffic movements that happen a Wapsey's Wood! The RCV's already go there!
12:28am Tue 6 Sep 11
Valer000 says...
3:35pm Wed 7 Sep 11
s6blr says...
"To the Environment Agency, ref application EPR/XP3091ER/A001:
I went to the public preview meeting for the High Heavens Waste Transfer Station, Clay Lane, Booker the evening of 5 September 2011 to review the proposed plan. As a local home owner, after seeing the proposal in the press I had reviewed at the preview meeting I wish to formally lodge the following objections:
1) Clay Lane is the ONLY ingress/egress point to the site and is not suited to carry all the additional traffic. I raised this with the company rep and he couldn't give a consistent answer on number of trips that this very narrow road, through school areas will have to take.
2) As Clay Lane could be accessed from other areas, has a Traffic study been done to quantify the pollution all the additional vehicles will be creating?
3) The air quality study does NOT take into account the UNIQUE airflow conditions in Marlow Bottom as shown in
documents HH/6-A1,2,3,4 as the location of the tested R10-R13 stations is ABOVE the valley floor. The valley routinely traps clouds, smog, pollutants and your air testing stations were more than 100ft above the valley floor so the dispersion maps are flawed as is the airflow study.
4) Marlow Bottom gets a lot of airflow from the W, WNW, NW, and NNW and the smell of this facility
will be trapped in our valley. The odour maps HH/6a-4 do not take this into account and the Marlow
Bottom area will then have a trapped stench of rubbish, and diesel fumes from vehicles waiting/working
at the proposed site. As a result it should be MANDATORY as with the Amersham facility that odour-scrubbing
equipment be forced to this site if it is approved.
5) The vendor indicates on their website that it will be a 7day/week facility but tried to back track in the
meeting on 5 Sept. If 7 days is true, which is what their website mentions, then mandatory odour controls
and environmental monitoring must be required."
5:36pm Wed 7 Sep 11
s6blr says...
http://bucksplanning
.buckscc.gov.uk/Publ
icAccessLive/tdc/dca
pplication/applicati
on_detailview.aspx?c
aseno=LP95OGDS00100
9:32am Fri 9 Sep 11
s6blr says...
The Planning case number for those objecting is:
CC11/9003/CM
(may show as case no: LP95OGDS00100)
The case officer is:
Emily Catcheside
This URL is the simplest: http://bucksplanning
.buckscc.gov.uk/publ
icaccesslive/
And select "Property Search" on the left side.
4:03pm Fri 9 Sep 11
s6blr says...
The winds blow in all directions, so people north of the M40 will get to enjoy the rich aroma as well.
You've got to object!