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Representation by Stephen Wilson

Date submitted
12 February 2022
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses
  1. The consultation process for the local community has been inadequate. I do not believe I have received sufficient or full information about the project in order to understand properly all the implications for myself and the local community. Nor have I been given sufficient opportunity to make considered and constructive representations. 2. On the basis of what I can discern the project is a long term industrial development which will deprive the local and wider community of valuable agricultural and amenity land. I have seen no indication of any constructive efforts to mitigate these impacts which will be total for the local community. 3. I have seen no realistic evidence that the land will or is capable of being returned eventually to agricultural and amenity use: the industrialisation of a wide area or countryside will therefore be permanent. 4. I have seen no evidence that the harmful effects on the local community during construction (disruption, noise, traffic) will be effectively mitigated. 5. I have seen no evidence that the entity involved in the development has the financial backing or relevant expertise to enter into, to complete or to operate the undertaking or to keep to any operational or financial covenants or guarantees that it might be required to enter into. The company making the application is a small company which on the basis of the latest filing of filleted accounts at Companies House has net liabilities and is therefore technically insolvent. It is clear that there is a complex chain of ownership going ultimately to overseas principals based in Spain and/or elsewhere. There has been no clarity provided however as to the identity, track record or funding sources or commitments of these offshore principals, and the applicant is on the face of it merely a small technically insolvent company with no track record or history of any involvement in any such a project.