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PRESERVE campaigns against the industrialisation of the Chelveston Airfield using the following:

  1. Developing general public awareness of the effects of the proposed developments on the environment, health and quality of life of local communities.
  2. Implementing a programme of presentations to local parish and town councils within the areas of high impact.
  3. Exerting general pressure on the determining Councils to reject proposals that contravene the primary objective.
  4. Liaising with nominated representatives of local councils and politicians to determine status and procedures of planning processes.
  5. Influencing and determining the Government and councils to fully consider all aspects of environmental impact and asserting that any current or future developer of this site provides adequate and comprehensive information.
  6. Lobbying and influencing MPs, MEPs, and other local elected representatives and Council Members including those within the planning committees.
  7. Developing and organising a collection of well researched facts and figures that expose the negative impact on the local communities and contravenes the primary objective.
  8. Designing, printing and distributing literature to local communitiesthat support the achieving of our primary objective.
  9. Arranging and organising public meetings in order to demonstrate and win support of PRESERVE’s objective.
  10. Monitoring the activities and submissions of Chelveston Renewable Energy and any other future developer, to ensure that they are accurate, balanced and take into account the needs and views of local communities.
  11. Challenging Chelveston Renewable Energy and any future developer, to provide detailed analysis and information on the effects and consequences of their proposals on local community/wildlife and the environment.
  12. Developing and implementing a marketing/communication and PR campaign to assist in the achieving of PRESERVE’s primary objective

Burton Wind Farm Ofgem figures show that the capacity factor or efficiency at Burton Windfarm averages ONLY 16 per cent.Using the DTI conversion figure this means that at best it could “save” a total of 11,500 tonnes of CO2 annually.This is just 25 per cent of the figure claimed in the planning application and less than the annual emissions from 75 articulated lorries.

A recent study showed an average of 1000 lorries per hour using the A14.So, put another way, annually the Burton turbines on average may, at most, save the equivalent of 4.5 minutes’ worth of A14 lorries at any one time!

 

 

 

All day on Sunday, 22nd October - the day of the protest walk at Chelveston Airfield - this event was the lead story every hour, on the hour, on Chiltern Radio news!

CRE Planning Application Response Recently, Preserve distributed details of CRE’s first planning application to all the villages most effected by the plans. This application is a forerunner to the main development consisting of the wind farm and waste recycling plant. Many thanks to all our village coordinators for their efforts in circulating this information and collecting villagers’ objections. These have now been collated and passed to East Northants Council. Thanks also to all those villagers who took the time to register their objections.  Over 500 objections were received by the Council. A strong response to all planning applications is vital and will continue to be so!