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- At a planning committee meeting on 21st July 2008, Oxfordshire
County Council granted approval to WRG Ltd at Sutton Courtenay
to build a waste cell to take all of Didcot's ash - about 400,000
tonnes. This will take time to construct.
It will also mean that hundreds of lorries will be saved
from roads round Sutton Courtenay because WRG would have to IMPORT
aggregates as cover to go over the waste on a daily basis.
- WRG are negotiating with NPower now that they have their planning
permission, to take their ash and agree terms. When this
happens we can start celebrating! There are residents in
Sutton Courtenay who think this development will be bad for them.
This is because the site has extended its years of operation,
not because it is taking fuel ash. The benefit to the community
and the environment as a whole is enormous if WRG take the ash
that was destined for Radley because of the saving in lorry movements.
- The proposed ash cell is adjacent to the power station and is
well away from Sutton Courtenay village.
- WRG advise that Save Radley Lakes will know the outcome of these
discussions by September 2008.
- If the outcome is successful, this will mean NPower do not need
to use Thrupp Lake for their ash.
- This does not mean the campaign is over. We have won a
very strategic battle. The Campaign goes on to raise funds
for legal action in process to get the area registered as a Town/Village
Green. This action will continue unless NPower can give assurances
that the land will be open to public access as it has been for
the past three decades.
- Read
the Press Release
- More
information on the Radley Village Website
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