Save Our Stort: Vigil to take place before planning meeting
Planning / Mon 14th Feb 2022 at 12:28pm
A VIGIL is set to take place outside the Harlow Council offices before the vital planning meeting regarding the proposed crossing across the River Stort.
The meeting at the Water Gardens offices takes place at 7.30pm on Wednesday February 23rd.
However, campaigners will be there from 5.30pm.
A spokesperson said: “Join us outside the Civic Centre, Water Gardens, Harlow CM20 1WG, for a peaceful vigil to show support for the River Stort.
“Harlow Council will be deliberating the proposed road and crossing.
“The meeting starts at 7:30pm so we will be outside from 5:30pm.
“Let’s show them that we don’t want the crossing”
Nostradamus
2022-02-16 10:41:54
Are the Conservatives are seriously concerned about the environment as they post today 16th February? If so and Conservatives are serious about the environment then they should immediately put a block on the raised road Eastern Crossing and the Central Crossing works that serve only the Gilston estate development and will destroy flood plain, woodland, wetlands and the tranquil and extremely vulnerable natural nature reserve that's highly valued by Harlow residents, all of which protect our town. The Valley needs to be made into a regional green park like the Lee Valley rather than destroyed and polluted. Habiitats of protected species and flood plain will be destroyed and Harlow homes made more prone to flooding and the discharges of raw sewage. The embodied carbon footprint is millions of polluting car miles and yet the Councils and hggt pfp have ignored lower cost and more environmentally friendly options. Cllrs seem to think that "tidying up " by cutting down ancient trees and making the green spaces into monoculture bowling green grass areas is improving the environment, quite the reverse. Wake up Harlow Council, the developers, East Herts Council, Epping Council, Essex and Herts County Councils have suckered Labour into their plans and now there's the danger that the Conservatives are not going to save the town by blocking these Crossings works and rejecting the utterly non sustainable "sustainable" transport plans. The developers and the other Councils stand to gain through profits and grants linked with housing targets: Harlow gets no housing and nothing except the pollution, congestion and destruction of our most valuable amenity, recreational and ecologically important space. At the planning meeting on the 23rd February, Save our Stort don't rubber stamp the cheques for East Herts and the developers pockets. The executive homes up on the hill at Gilston, looking down on Harlow in every sense, could be built but not at our cost: Harlow should refuse to be the tradesmens entrance, flood relief and sewage disposal routes for those getting out of London with fat profits.
Michael Stevens
2022-02-16 13:29:14
There was a recent article on Your Harlow showing clearly how the former Labour Administration have supported the whole Harlow Gilston project 7 times, culminating in their December 2020 adopted Harlow Plan showing clearly the Stort Crossings. It is naive to say they were ‘suckered’ ….over 4 years! You should know a Planning authority may only judge any application on the papers submitted and any objections must be based on applicable Planning laws and regulations, otherwise it will be most likely turned over on appeal at great cost to taxpayers.
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