Angela Smith MP:
On 20th September 2007, the local Echo newspaper quoted Mrs Smith, a private parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as saying: "I fail to understand why the council is determined to press ahead with these dreadful plans."
"All Labour councillors and myself are totally opposed to these plans and will continue to try to stop this appalling scheme."
Mrs Smith and local Labour Councillors, particularly Lynda Gordon, have given us support throughout this campaign and we are grateful for it.
Geoff Williams, Councillor for the Nethermayne Ward and Liberal Democrat leader on Basildon Council:
From the start, Geoff has worked tirelessly to try and stop this development; it was a Liberal Democrat leaflet that alerted many local residents to the planning meeting where the scheme was approved. Geoff is one of the founder member of 'Friends of Basildon Golf Club'
Through Geoff we approached the Environmental Law Foundation and thus met our solicitor, Robin Tillbrook. Tilbrooks are at Quire's Green, Willingale, Ongar, Chelmsford, Essex CM5 0QP
John Schofield, County Councillor for Westley Heights
Rod Cole, Essex Wildlife Trust
Denis Walker, Co-ordinator, South East Essex Friends of the Earth. Our protest is currently featured on their website - see:
www.seefoe.org.uk
Anne Humphries, Chairman of Basildon and Thurrock Green Party, has joined the protest. The following report was carried in the Basildon Recorder.
Golf Centre Protest: Green activists have put their weight behind the campaign to stop building rubble being dumped at Basildon Golf Course.
Anne Humphries, Chairman of Basildon and Thurrock Green Party has condemned Basildon Council's 'cavalier attitude in agreeing the proposal in the face of strong opposition, and more recently for canvassing on our behalf.
She said 'Yet again Basildon Council shows its complete cyncial disregard for residents.
Council Leader Malcolm Buckley said 'The Green Party will jump on all sorts of bandwagons to improve popularity'. 'We will ensure there will be strict controls on the materials brought on to the course'.
Jacqueline Dodman is Secretary of the Theydon Bois & Abridge Action Group which was set up to protect the Green Belt around Theydon Bois from unscrupulous development. They have seen a green field land filled for the last 3 years with hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of hard core. She says that the developer has got round planning law and land fill tax to make an absolute fortune in the process. This is happening all over the country we need to do something about it now!!
Read more at
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/U3273044
See also the pages at the end of this website - 'The Wider View' and 'Blake's Farm blog.
Nearer home, special thanks are due to Rose Bright, for 'going the extra mile' on leaflet distribution; many thanks to those who have been helping Rose too. And Derek Adams has spent a lot of time setting up our first supporters group in The Knowle. We are glad to learn that others are now following his example.
The first photoshoot of our protest group; numbers have grown considerably since then.
If plans go ahead, the land in this picture will be filled with inert landfill to a depth of 6 metres (20 feet) in order to form a driving range.
On 20th September 2007, the local Echo newspaper quoted Mrs Smith, a private parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as saying: "I fail to understand why the council is determined to press ahead with these dreadful plans."
"All Labour councillors and myself are totally opposed to these plans and will continue to try to stop this appalling scheme."
Mrs Smith and local Labour Councillors, particularly Lynda Gordon, have given us support throughout this campaign and we are grateful for it.
Geoff Williams, Councillor for the Nethermayne Ward and Liberal Democrat leader on Basildon Council:
From the start, Geoff has worked tirelessly to try and stop this development; it was a Liberal Democrat leaflet that alerted many local residents to the planning meeting where the scheme was approved. Geoff is one of the founder member of 'Friends of Basildon Golf Club'
Through Geoff we approached the Environmental Law Foundation and thus met our solicitor, Robin Tillbrook. Tilbrooks are at Quire's Green, Willingale, Ongar, Chelmsford, Essex CM5 0QP
John Schofield, County Councillor for Westley Heights
Rod Cole, Essex Wildlife Trust
Denis Walker, Co-ordinator, South East Essex Friends of the Earth. Our protest is currently featured on their website - see:
www.seefoe.org.uk
Anne Humphries, Chairman of Basildon and Thurrock Green Party, has joined the protest. The following report was carried in the Basildon Recorder.
Golf Centre Protest: Green activists have put their weight behind the campaign to stop building rubble being dumped at Basildon Golf Course.
Anne Humphries, Chairman of Basildon and Thurrock Green Party has condemned Basildon Council's 'cavalier attitude in agreeing the proposal in the face of strong opposition, and more recently for canvassing on our behalf.
She said 'Yet again Basildon Council shows its complete cyncial disregard for residents.
Council Leader Malcolm Buckley said 'The Green Party will jump on all sorts of bandwagons to improve popularity'. 'We will ensure there will be strict controls on the materials brought on to the course'.
Jacqueline Dodman is Secretary of the Theydon Bois & Abridge Action Group which was set up to protect the Green Belt around Theydon Bois from unscrupulous development. They have seen a green field land filled for the last 3 years with hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of hard core. She says that the developer has got round planning law and land fill tax to make an absolute fortune in the process. This is happening all over the country we need to do something about it now!!
Read more at
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/U3273044
See also the pages at the end of this website - 'The Wider View' and 'Blake's Farm blog.
Nearer home, special thanks are due to Rose Bright, for 'going the extra mile' on leaflet distribution; many thanks to those who have been helping Rose too. And Derek Adams has spent a lot of time setting up our first supporters group in The Knowle. We are glad to learn that others are now following his example.
The first photoshoot of our protest group; numbers have grown considerably since then.
If plans go ahead, the land in this picture will be filled with inert landfill to a depth of 6 metres (20 feet) in order to form a driving range.