Letter to Uttlesford District Council
from Broxted Parish Council 29th June 2006
re BAA's Planning Application for the maximum use of the existing runway (Generation 1)
Mr J. Mitchell,
Executive Manager (Development Services),
Uttlesford District Council
London Road,
Saffron Walden,
Essex CB11 4ER
Dear Mr Mitchell,
PLANNING APPLICATION UTT/0717/06/FUL
STANSTED AIRPORT – GENERATION 1
Please take note that my Council is implacably opposed to this application.
It considers the application to be extremely cynical; saying it is ‘purely seeking the amendment of one condition and the removal of another’ and then backing it up with seventeen volumes of confusing and misleading data. It has failed to provide much of the information your Council requested in its Scoping Document, and treats the subject of Climate Change in a few short paragraphs, as though it was not its problem.
This is further evidence of the contempt in which B.A.A holds your Council, and of its ‘salami’ approach to expansion; every time it reaches an agreed capacity it seeks to increase it still further. My Council was opposed to the expansion to 25m p.p.a. and felt betrayed by the then Development Control Committee in allowing it, but took some consolation from the fact that a final limit had been set and, once reached, things could get no worse. How wrong we were.
At some time expansion of the airport has to stop. That time is now. My Council looks to Uttlesford to heed the opinions of the vast majority of people in this District, and beyond, and refuse this application.
Yours faithfully,
P. Clark (Mrs)
Clerk
Copies to Cllr C. Cant, Cllr C. Down and SSE
BROXTED PARISH COUNCIL
Chitlands,
Brown's End Road,
Broxted,
Dunmow,
Essex. CM6 2BG
Email: broxted_parish_council@hotmail.com
Tel: 01279 850638
Related links:
Broxted Parish Council's Presentation to the Development Control Committee of Uttlesford District Council - 3 July 2006
Other responses to this planning application, as collected by SSE
SSE's response to this planning application - published 27 April 2006
"Stansted submits planning application to increase use of existing runway" - press release issued by BAA 26 April 2006
Stansted Generation 1 - Planning Statement issued 26 April 2006 by BAA (Acrobat® format 4.3 MB)
future.stanstedairport.com/main/user/page.phtml?page_id=130 - BAA's full documentation of the application above
Broxted Parish Council's response to the Generation 1 consultation - published 12 October 2005
SSE's initial response to the Generation 1 consultation - published 2 August 2005
BAA Consultation Document: PUBLIC CONSULTATION JULY – OCTOBER 2005 - An invitation to inform our plans to make better use of the existing runway (Acrobat® format 3.4 MB)
BAA Consultation Document: Stansted Airport - Interim Master Plan - Draft for Consultation July 2005 (Acrobat® format 0.9 MB)
Stansted urges community to ‘Have your say’ - press release issued 28 July 2005 by BAA
"Stansted confident of its place at the heart of the regional economy" - press release issued by BAA 11 November 2004, in response to the EERA Draft Regional Plan
(with more on their intention to apply for 35 million passengers per annum on the existing runway)
Draft Regional Plan published December 2004 by EERA (Acrobat ® format 2.8 MB)
Uttlesford District Council's response to BAA's "Scoping Report"- November 2004 (Acrobat ® format, 178 KB)
BAA's "Scoping Report" Consultation on studies proposed to consider the environmental effects of further growth of Stansted (within its existing single runway capacity) - July 2004 (Acrobat ® format, 3.7 MB)
"Stansted confirms plans to submit planning application to grow beyond 25 million" press release issued 28 April 2004 by BAA
Uttlesford District Council: "Stansted Explained"
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