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Cory Decarbonisation Project

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  • Andrew Crawford

    I first discovered Crossness after moving to Woolwich in 2010, and have frequently walked to it along the riverside, enjoying the wildlife, and appreciating that somewhere like it still existed in... Read more

  • Andrew Denney

    This project should not encroach on the Crossness Nature Reserve. There is plenty of brown field and industrial land in the nearby area that could be used or re-purposed without destroying precious... Read more

  • Andrew Wardell

    I wish to make my objection to the planned carbon capture project by Cory. The area proposed is a natural oasis in an increasingly industrial landscape. This provides sanctuary for countless... Read more

  • Angela Jane Fletcher

    I am local to the area and am concerned about an eyesore building dominating the landscape and the negative effect on wildlife. It will affect many species and the effect on wildlife will be... Read more

  • Calum F Kerr

    I am a resident living within two miles of the site and a member of Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve, these comments are my own. I experience the reserve very regularly and it is valued for my... Read more

  • Carole Tolliss

    I am against Cory building their CCS facility on Crossness Nature Reserve. Their planning documents show alternative sites and I think one of these is more appropriate. We keep being told by... Read more

  • Caroline Gregory

    This development threatens waterways where Water Voles (Britain’s fastest declining mammal) live and where one of Britain’s rarest bees, the Shrill Carder Bee, is doing well, it is also where passage... Read more

  • Christopher Adrian Rose

    CORY CARBON CAPTURE SCHEME OBJECTION Chris Rose (redacted) I object to Cory’s ‘de-carbonisation’ scheme as currently proposed. In my opinion, Cory’s claim that it will enlarge the nature reserve is... Read more

  • Claire Badgery

    I strongly oppose 10% of a nature reserve and some of London's remaining wetlands being developed for a CCS project. The destruction of unique habitats, irreversible damage to wildlife and... Read more

  • Clare Margaret Cronin

    This project will have an impact on the quantity and diversity of wildlife in the Crossness nature reserve. Any further development will inevitably cause noise, disturbance and intrusion on nature. It... Read more

  • David Gardener

    I have recently moved to the area although I was fully aware of the North Kent and Erith marshlands as a graduate in ecology. It's a travesty that potential development is putting an already... Read more

  • David Larkin

    I wish to object to this planning application. Narrow-minded thinking is on display here in Cory’s attempt to destroy 11.7% of an established nature reserve which as well as offering recreational and... Read more

  • Diane Molloy

    My heart sinks when I hear yet another nature reserve will be downsized for eternity. I grew up in Bexleyheath. Crossness is a haven in the concrete sprawl that engulfs the area now. Hundreds of... Read more

  • Dorothy Stein

    I raise a number of concerns with the CCS technology, and question assumptions that are made in the ES 6.1 Chapter 13. It should be noted that in 2018 there was widespread opposition from the GLA,... Read more

  • Edmond Rube

    The proposed plant amounts to the destruction of essential habitat

  • Elizabeth Cocker

    I object to this project because it will destroy a large chunk of a beautiful nature reserve that is much needed in a very suburban area. There are many at risk birds, mammals, plants and insects here... Read more

  • George Edgar

    I want to express my opposition to the project. The Crossness Nature Reserve is a rich and important area for nature and wildlife and the project would remove more than 10% of it and inflict damage... Read more

  • Gillian Sheffield

    I regularly use Crossness. I work in Woolwich and Crossness allows me to connect and see anray of wildlife/ nature, there is nothing else like this in the local area. It provides me vital wellbeing... Read more

  • Gordon Edwards

    I wish to support an objection to this project on the following grounds: The proposal will result in: ? Significant loss of incredibly valuable nature reserve land ? Irreversible damage to habitats... Read more

  • Helen Jewett

    There is not a lot of land left for horses and other animals such as voles. Most of it has been built on for industrial estates. We need to protect whatever land is left and an incinerator is not in... Read more

  • Iain James McCallum

    Although now living in Scotland I have long been a regular visitor to Crossness Nature Reserve as a surveyor for the National Plant Monitoring Scheme. I support the aims of the project but believe... Read more

  • Jane Banks

    Much of this land was designated as a nature reserve 30 years ago to mitigate against damage caused by Thames Water. It is completely nonsensical to destroy the local environment and a nature reserve... Read more

  • Keith Ridler

    I am against Cory building their CCS facility on Crossness Nature Reserve because it is critical habitat for nature including endangered species such as Water Vole. Cory have shown in their planning... Read more

  • Kelley Tolliss

    Although I am not local, I have family who live in Bexley and I have visited Crossness Nature Reserve. It is a beautiful, well managed place for people and wildlife and I know my sister (who does live... Read more

  • Laura Bower

    This project will be devastating for wildlife and people in the local area. The site proposed is a site of huge importance for legally protected species such as barn owl and water voles. As a section... Read more

  • Laura Johnston

    Object to planning application by Cory to acquire land designated as a Nature Reserve at Crossness, Thamesmead east and Belvedere.

  • Lisa Ridler

    I am commenting on Cory's proposed application to build a CCS facility on part of Crossness Nature Reserve (CNR) as a local resident. I am a member of the Friends group, and often visit the reserve to... Read more

  • Liz Mccormack

    CCS is too expensive for the small amount of carbon removed. The money would be better spent on research. I’m concerned that more carbon will be released from building on the land than can be... Read more

  • Louise Davey

    Crossness Nature Reserve is one of the last remaining area of grazed marshland within the Greater London area and as a Metropolitan Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (MSINC) it holds... Read more

  • Lynne Barry

    I want to object to the proposed development by Cory on Crossness Nature Reserve. The Erith marshes have a wealth of wildlife including the rare shrill carder bee. This is one of the last examples of... Read more

  • Malcolm Gerrard Russell Fletcher

    The East Paddock, Stable Paddocks, West Paddock, and Sea Wall Field will all have huge industrial infrastructure on them if Cory are granted planning permission for their Decarbonisation Plant. In... Read more

  • Michael Coleman

    The proposed development will have a disproportionately negative impact on the adjacent Crossness Nature Reserve. The proposed mitigations are inadequate and unguaranteed, so will not reduce the harm... Read more

  • Miren Edurne Urien-Esteban

    This is destroying wildlife for little benefit. There is no way Cory can make up for the land that they will build. We will lose a lot of wildlife that the public use and enjoy for spotting . The... Read more

  • Paul Hunt

    I strongly object to this proposal to despoil our world.

  • Peter Martin Rees

    This project will have an adverse impact on the quantity and diversity of wildlife in the Crossness nature reserve and the surrounding area. Sites with this variety of habitat are becoming... Read more

  • Ryan May

    i am against the planning due to the permanent impact that will follow to the wildlife, the area and the view surrounding. why pick a nature reserve and not a commercial land that has no wildlife

  • Sarah Beacock

    The land that is proposed to be built on is part of a thriving nature reserve that offers an invaluable habitat to many rare and threatened species of birds, bees and other insects. The site should... Read more

  • Steven Oram

    Building on a Nature Reserve is wrong on so many levels that this should not even be a consideration. Not only that, but the land is already in sensitive management for mitigation for another... Read more

  • Szymon Szkorupa

    Ireversable loss of marshland habitat and land. Detrimental visual impact with building massing and permanent shading. Increased noise, pollution and various poisonous emissions. Increased traffic and... Read more

  • Thames Blue Green Economy (Thames Blue Green Economy)

    Why does Cory want to build on precious nature reserve land when a suitable brown field site is available? Surely nature reserves are protected in perpetuity from development. They should be. The UK... Read more

  • Truth About Plastic (Truth About Plastic)

    Energy from waste is a toxic enterprise- the emissions from burning plastics- which is the feedstock that fuels incineration as it makes up the majority of our domestic and increasingly our building... Read more

  • Wendy Foreman

    I am deeply concerned about the loss of irreplaceable habitat for wildlife and the subsequent impact on the wildlife, flora and fauna. I am also concerned about the impact of the loss of reserve area... Read more

  • Andrew Brown

    I object to the proposed Cory decarbonisation plant because of its huge adverse impact on the Crossness Nature Reserve. The reserve, which I visit regularly, is like a green oasis in the middle of an... Read more

  • Anji Petersen

    I am opposed to this development because of the devastation to the habitats for rare animals and insects like water voles and shrill carder bee. Reed warblers have migrated from Africa to this site... Read more

  • Anna Trethewey

    I strongly object to this compulsory purchase of over 10% of the neighbouring nature reserve. It will lead to irreversible damage to rare habitats and impact negatively on the biodiversity. Several... Read more

  • Annette Leppla

    I write to express my deep concern about the applicant’s intention to obtain permission under a Development Consent Order (DCO) to build a carbon capture facility on Crossness Nature Reserve to offset... Read more

  • Graeme Mitchell

    Siting the Cory plant on a Nature Reserve which has been designated as a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation is both ill-concieved and ill-considered. To sacrifice the nature... Read more

  • Karin Tearle

    I’m concerned Cory Group wants to expand on already diminished marshes

  • Lesley Anne Mann

    Cory want to take 11.7% of Crossness Nature Reserve, one of the last areas of grazing marsh in the Thames estuary, and build on it. They admitted at their presentation on 13th September 2023 that this... Read more

  • Linda Graham

    Rare wildlife Crossness Nature Reserve supports extremely rare and critically endangered wildlife such as water vole (Britain's fastest declining mammal) and shrill carder bee (the UK's rarest... Read more

  • Lloyd Turner

    I have been visiting Crossness Nature Reserve for the past 20 years and was appalled to hear that Cory are proposing to develop their carbon decarbonisation plant on a substantial part of the nature... Read more

  • Lucy Martin

    I am opposing this project. The main issue I believe this project would have a huge impact is the wildlife that exists on these marshlands. Endangered species live here and to lose them would be a... Read more

  • Marie Hammond

    it is deeply upsetting to see that a site noted for its diversity of exceptional wild life which has somehow survived in a heavily populated part of London, is to be destroyed by this proposal. One of... Read more

  • Mr Nicholas Hatton

    Not in a nature reserve! It seems to create a terrible precedent to propose taking a slice of a nature reserve for a hastily thought out scheme (the plan was for a data centre until last year, when... Read more

  • Mrs Margaret J White

    1)The local road area is blighted by heavy traffic on the A206 causing jams and blockages on the small side roads daily. Queens Road, Northend Road and Thames Road are particularly hit. (Some of this... Read more

  • Paul Johns

    We must preserve this nature reserve and its entire ecosystem for the benefit of wildlife but also for the humans whose mental health it supports.

  • Robert Stephen Morris

    1- the proposal is designed to tick boxes to reduce carbon emissions. The point of reducing carbon emissions is to reduce the detrimental effect on the climate as well as to reduce pollution, for the... Read more

  • Ruth Agnes Mary Moore

    England is the most nature depleted country in Europe We have destroyed most of our country and the wildlife in it for private profit It really is time to put public good above enriching a few people... Read more

  • Alexandru Lica

    What is the point for the area to be a nature reserve, if any corporate could obey the status of nature reserve? As a local family we want a nature friendly environment. To be saved the green spaces,... Read more

  • Alice Higginson-Clarke

    I object to Cory's planning application on the grounds of protecting local wildlife & biodiversity at one of only four Local Nature Reserves (LNR) in Bexley, a Metropolitan Site of Importance for... Read more

  • Amanda Dickins

    My main concerns are two fold: First, the impact on the Crossness nature reserve and the loss of valuable habitat - one of the last remnants of grazing marsh in south east London. The grazing paddocks... Read more

  • Amanda Fletcher

    Land designated as protected should stay protected. It’s absolutely unbelievable that a corporation can obtain a compulsory purchase order for short term profit. Habitat protection of the little... Read more

  • BusinessLDN (BusinessLDN)

    BusinessLDN – formerly London First – is a business campaigning group with the mission to make London the best city in the world in which to do business, for the benefit of the whole UK. We convene... Read more

  • Edward Charles Real Estate Limited (Edward Charles Real Estate Limited)

    We act on behalf of Creek Side Developments (Kent) Ltd who own a site in Norman Road, Belvedere directly affected by the Decarbonisation Project. Our clients object to the development for reasons... Read more

  • Elisabeth Petchey

    I am dismayed at the effect this planning application will have on the surrounding area both for people and wildlife if it goes ahead. It will change the landscape for ever, destroy the wildlife,... Read more

  • Environment Agency (Environment Agency)

    Emma Cottam Planning Inspectorate National Infrastructure Planning Our ref: SL/2023/122661/03-L01 Your ref: EN010128 Date: 14 June 2024 Dear Emma SECTION 56 PLANNING ACT 2008; REGULATION 8... Read more

  • Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve (Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve)

    I, Marc Lindsay Tuft, submit this objection on behalf of the Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve. I have also submited an objection in my own name, as a local resident. Land protection The land is... Read more

  • Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)

    The Mayor has a strategic role in ensuring that London is a better place for people to live, work and visit. The Mayor has a number of policies and statutory duties relating to Housing and Land,... Read more

  • James Hewitt

    This application appears flimsy in relation to the technologies proposed and to be primarily intent on enhancing sentiment and subsidy for the Riverside 1 & 2 incinerators. (1.1) The context includes... Read more

  • Jane Andrews

    The proposed development is for an area of significant importance to local nature, which is why it has received protection in the past. The development should be moved to an alternative more suitable... Read more

  • Jay Anderson

    I’m concerned that the wild life will not come back to the reserve after all the disruption to there habitats. I am also upset to see that so much land with so much of a story to be built on. This... Read more

  • John Claridge

    I want to register my objection to the project. The Crossness reserve is a crucial local resourse important in the lives of many local residents, and environmentally significant locally. There any any... Read more

  • John Francis

    I wish to object to this proposal for the following reasons: Cory admitted at their presentation on 13th September 2023 that this type of grazing marsh is irreplaceable, yet they want to build on it.... Read more

  • Tozers LLP (Tozers LLP) on behalf of Jointly: Landsul Limited; and Munster Joinery (UK) Limited (Jointly: Landsul Limited; and Munster Joinery (UK) Limited)

    Cory Decarbonisation Project Relevant representation on behalf of Landsul Limited and Munster Joinery (UK) Limited Introduction 1. This relevant representation (“RR”) is prepared on behalf of Landsul... Read more

  • Jordan Beagle

    The United Kingdom is in the bottom 10% of countries for nature already. Once a species is extinct it is irreplaceable and lost forever. Find brown land to build these facilities and give nature a... Read more

  • Kent County Council (Kent County Council)

    Submitted via online form only. Dear Sir / Madam Re: Application by Cory Environmental Holdings Limited (CEHL) for an Order Granting Development Consent for the Construction and Operation of Carbon... Read more

  • London Borough of Bexley (London Borough of Bexley)

    The main planning issues raised by the application are: • Air Quality;?? • Greenhouse Gases;?? • Climate Resilience;?? • Land Use and Consideration of Alternatives; • Terrestrial Biodiversity;?? •... Read more

  • Maria Robertson

    Please prevent the loss of a beloved nature reserve

  • Martin Watts

    Rare wildlife Crossness Nature Reserve supports extremely rare and critically endangered wildlife such as water vole (Britain's fastest declining mammal) and shrill carder bee (the UK's rarest... Read more

  • Matthew Knight

    I have just heard and I quote “ The East Paddock, Stable Paddocks, West Paddock, and Sea Wall Field will all have huge industrial infrastructure on them if Cory are granted planning permission for... Read more

  • Michael Heath

    I am astonished to find that after so much good will and hard work that the precious and delightful Crossness Nature Reserve is threatened with development resulting in the loss of grazing marshland... Read more

  • National Highways (National Highways)

    Cory Decarbonisation Project Development Consent Order (DCO) EN010128 Planning Application Norman Road, Belvedere, London, DA17 6JY SECTION 56 PLANNING ACT 2008: RELEVANT REPRESENTATION OF NATIONAL... Read more

  • Patricia Roud

    The area is vitally important to our local wildlife

  • Paul Fryer

    We cannot fight the climate and nature crisis by building on green spaces, no matter what the project. Protecting our nature and green spaces is the best weapon we have against climate change.... Read more

  • Gowling WLG (Gowling WLG) on behalf of Port of London Authority (Port of London Authority)

    1 BACKGROUND 1.1 The Port of London Authority (the "PLA") is the statutory harbour authority for the tidal Thames (the "River"). The River covers approximately 95 miles from Teddington to the North... Read more

  • Rebecca Fryer

    Crossness Nature Reserve is home to many special and at-risk species, including barn owls (which fly over the fields designated for development), water voles (who are living in a stretch of water just... Read more

  • Robert Woodley

    I would like to lodge my objection to this planned project. Other sites are feasible that do not have the same environmental impact as the one planned at Crossness Nature reserve.

  • BNP Paribas Real Estate (BNP Paribas Real Estate) on behalf of Royal Mail Group Limited (Royal Mail Group Limited)

    Royal Mail Group Limited (Royal Mail) supports the Cory Decarbonisation Project but is seeking to ensure that its road-based operations are not adversely impacted by construction traffic and any... Read more

  • S Hodder

    As a former local resident i feel that this project will, disrupt, destroy and forever lose a valuable area of significant natural beauty, home to several endangered species of plants, reptiles,... Read more

  • Sam Butler

    I urge you to reject Cory Energy's industrial development plans on the Crossness Nature Reserve. Crossness Nature Reserve is a unique nature habitat that provides a protected area for rare and... Read more

  • Stephanie Carn

    I strongly object to this proposal to use some of the site for industrial purposes. There are endangered species recorded here, and there are very few sites like this. Cory should look elsewhere for... Read more

  • Stephen Laszcz

    The scale of the development will completely devastate a natural and ecological important area, which will not and cannot be reinstated within generations

  • Steven Robinson

    I would like to object against against this planning proposal

  • Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water Utilities Limited)

    1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 These representations are made on behalf of Thames Water Utilities Limited (“TWUL”) in respect of the application for development consent (“Application”) submitted for the Cory... Read more

  • Thomas Ferreira

    Whilst I agree with the concept of the decarbonisation project. Destroying a nature reserve to do this kind of defeats the object. This is one of few nature reserves in London and a vital piece of... Read more

  • UK Health Security Agency (UK Health Security Agency)

    Thank you for your consultation regarding the above development. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) welcomes the opportunity to comment on your proposals at this stage of the project. Please note... Read more

  • Bevan Brittan LLP (Bevan Brittan LLP) on behalf of Western Riverside Waste Authority (Western Riverside Waste Authority)

    (1) We act for Western Riverside Waste Authority (WRWA) and have been instructed to submit relevant representations on its behalf in response to the proposed Development Consent Order (known as the... Read more

  • Aleksei Sysoev

    To Whom It May Concern, I am writing as a concerned resident who values the preservation of our natural habitats and the inherent biodiversity they support. While I recognize the importance of... Read more

  • Angela Hart

    Compulsory purchase of any part of a nature reserve, albeit for a carbon capture project, negates the benefits of the project due to the destruction and displacement of the flora and fauna. There is... Read more

  • Dee Flottweg

    I’m a local resident and object to plans which would destroy a nature reserve