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Proposed Land raise site at Piltdown : Statement from Councillor Walters

Newick Parish Council along with Fletching and Piltdown councils have joined forces and are supporting PAAL (Piltdown action against Landfill)

This was agreed as the best way forward, so that we would have a united voice against this East Sussex County Council (ESCC) proposal.

Regular meetings are being held and minuets produced. The next meeting will be at Fletching Village Hall at 7.30pm on the 22^nd March.

A Newsletter has also been printed and copies are available throughout the village.

On the more technical side “enplan “ a firm of environmental consultants have prepared a reply to the Waste and Mineral Core Strategy by ESCC and is available from PAAL or  from there website.

This is the first stage in what will probably be a long battle to save our countryside.

Please look at the websites for this ongoing battle, as a PC we will keep you informed.

David Walters. For Newick PC

Websites:

http://www.piltdownaction.com   http://www.savenewick.com 

PiltdownAction@googlemail.com

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STATEMENT FROM EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE RECENT CONSULTATION

As you may be aware, the County Council has recently finished the first round of consultation on the Waste and Minerals Core Strategy - Preferred Strategy.  During the next few months, Council officers will consider some 4,000 public responses, as well as numerous petitions, following which the Council will need to make a decision at a future meeting.  Whilst organisations and members of the public are understandably keen for their councillor to articulate their views, as a matter of law they need to show that they have not made their minds up before the outcome of the consultation is considered by the Council.  For example, if a councillor can be shown to have made up his/her mind about a particular issue in advance of the meeting and has closed their mind to other views, they may be disqualified from voting on the issue.  No councillor would wish to put themselves in the position of not being able to participate in the actual decision making and we would urge parish and town councils not to put pressure on councillors to declare their position on landraise issues before the decision making process is complete.

 With regard to the consultation, we responded to requests for extra time to comment on the document and the original consultation deadline was extended by 6 weeks to 15 January 2010.  In light of the bad weather at the beginning of January, the consultation period was extended again to 25 January.  All comments received are being taken into consideration and further technical work will then be undertaken.  This, amongst other things, will assess matters that have been drawn to our attention by the comments received. Further consultation will then be needed before the plans are finalised.  Anyone who commented on the consultation, or who has registered an interest in the Waste and Minerals Consultation, has had their contact details added to a list of consultees and will automatically be notified of further stages of the process which will include publication of responses to comments.

 If you have any further queries about the Waste and Minerals Core Strategy please contact Ian Blake who is the Team Manager for Waste and Minerals Planning Policy. (tel: (01273) 482035; email: ian.blake@eastsussex.gov.uk).

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HAILSHAM MEETING POSTPONED

The Hailsham meeting was postphoned as the ESCC councillors/officialscould not make the effort to get there in the snow even though hundreds of us managed, some even walking over 5 miles to get there.

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