There are three particularly interesting planning applications on today’s “Weekly List”. All of them are recommended for approval, unless any district councillor calls them in by 1 pm next Wednesday. You can download the full list (with detailed officers’ reports) here. (261kb) The start of each of the officer’s reports are shown below (click on them to enlarge)
Any chance of getting the golf course called in Chris
Having read the report, I will be calling in the golf course application Christine (unless someone else beats me to it).
Thanks Chris. I read right through it. Two and a half years seems an inordinate time for construction, after all it isn’t Gleneagles they’re building there. Seems to me it is going to be a landfill site that may eventually turn into a golf course with residents having to put up with living in the middle of a construction site. Totally unsuitable for a residential area.
Forty lorries a day going into this site plus earth moving equipment for two and a half years it will be dreadful on this very busy road plus what about us existing residents it will be hell while it is being done and afterwards with the noise of usage.
Absolutely correct Christine – the import of landfill will be part of the ‘ Business Plan’ to finance the Golf Course , just as it was for the other Golf Course ( why do we need another one? ) in the Hullbridge road .They used the muck from the 2012 site – you will probably get the Crossrail escavation now it is moving East.
Mind you the lorries will no doubt get gridlocked with all the North of London Rd construction traffic ………..start campaigning for a big attendance at the Civic Rooms
on 29th January folks.
sounds like a dumping ground for the proposed housing they want to build…
Jim@ 5, I think I am correct in saying that the spoil from Crossrail is being used to create wetlands and a nature reserve at Wallasea…so no danger of it coming to Rayleigh, not even a weeny weeny bit ????
Sue @ 4, where do you get the figure of 40 lorries a day for two years from, 200 a week !, what are they doing, replicating the Grand Canyon ? ????????????????
Oz @ 7, this is from the officers report:
“The applicant has advised informally that the construction period would be for
around two-two and a half years. A typical working day would see forty lorry
movements arriving and leaving over a period between 07:00 hrs. to 16:30
hrs. and Saturday mornings. The applicant advises that greater movements
than this create administrative difficulties for the management of the site,
contracts, driver rota’s and site and street cleaning. This frequency has also
generally been found acceptable to nearby residents to other sites. These
circumstances arise for the construction period and are reasonable. If a lesser
number of movementwas preferred, a longer period of construction would
result”
Never mind creating administrative difficulties for the site office wallah , what about difficulties for the residents en route to / from ? – what is driving this assault on the
Rawreth side of Rayleigh ? , years of construction ( golf course and North of London Rd ) simultaneously. Joined up thinking my —- .
And Oz I assume you are not that naive to believe that Wallasea story ????…..
This is my point Oz. This is a 9 hole pay and play, yet the lorry movements and time scale seem out of proportion to that. They are just looking to make money out of landfill, and quite honestly the planning department ought to forget the ongoing determination they seem to have for developing Rawreth in any way they can and realise just what is going on with this applicaton.
What about increased flood risk with alteration of the natural drainage system ? Has a risk assessment been carried out ?It seems a convenience for Countryside . It is totally unacceptable that amount of spoil will transform the area and probably increase overlooking of our residents in London Road as well as the lorry movements . We do not need another golf course as Rayleigh club satisfies the areas needs .There is some evidence that golf is losing popularity among the younger generation .It will leave us with a white elephant but the developer will gain with cheap disposal of spoil . Once the modest facilities are established it will ask for more on site developement to subsidise the course which only being nine holes will not satisfy any serious golfer .
Done a little research .Comparing this with Wallasea Island project.On 670 hectares there is proposed to be nearly 5million cubic metres of spoil from Crossrail dumped over next few years .On 17 Hectares of this proposed golf course there is an estimated total of over 500,000 cubic metres over two and a half years to be dumped .I have used the figures of 220 lorries a week over two and a half years carrying about 13 cubic metres aload .As before it will completely change the face of what is left of Rawreths food producing land
I am concerned that this degree of alteration of the natural land contours will leave properties surrounded by the golf course liable to flood. At the moment, although our back gardens go pretty squelchy in winter, and from time to time we need to deploy air brick covers at the back, we don’t flood. The field is pretty flat, only a very slight slope towards London Road, and that, coupled with the existing land drains, mean the water stays where it is.
It would be very easy to become somewhat paranoid about this and feel that the planning officers really have something against Rawreth. They seem to approve everything with no consideration at all towards residents, infrastructure, or indeed anything else.
Well so much for Christmas positivity…..????
Well, you’ve had a jolly song about sewers, Oz. 😉 Why don’t you write a guest article for us “10 things I like about Rayleigh”? Make it completely positive, and don’t mention party politics….
In the meantime Alistir’s calculation is very interesting. Though I get 220 x 52 x 2.5 x 13 = 371800 cubic metres .
It was late! Still not inconsiderable amount.
Just remembered that was the approximate tonnage ,Taking 1 cubic metre of clay equivalent to 1.6 tonnes.
if there is a Parish meeting before the planning date ( 29/01/15 ) I suggest this is high
on the agenda – if no meeting planned then have a EMG as soon as feasible.
Meanwhile Oz the musician can fiddle while Rome burns……????
Admin, game on ! BUT can I have Star Billing once it’s ready to publish….
Well Oz, you’ll certainly get an author’s credit (even if it’s a pen name). Just send us an email with your article.
And if anybody else wants to write “10 things I like ” about their parish – whether it is Hullbridge , Hockley or Little Wakering – please have a go. But it must all be positive and no party politics…