SaveNewick.com aims to gather information relating to the proposals to locate a land raise waste facility next to Newick. We want to help local residents and businesses to learn more about the issues, and discuss them online, so that they can offer a valid defence to the council’s proposals. Our objective is to stop a waste facility being built next to Newick.
The Doorstep Challenge: In the run up to the general election the political parties will be asking for our votes. When they knock on your door we want you to ask them: “What are you doing to Save Newick?”
Print out our factsheet and stick it to the back of your front door so that when they call at your home you are ready to challenge them. If we can get as many people as possible to put our politicians on the spot it will become very clear to them that it should be their top priority to stop this waste site from ever being built.
The proposed location of the land raise rubbish dump is between Newick and Piltdown. As you can see from the scale of the map the area is bigger than the whole of Newick and is approximately 1.1 square km (110 hectares, 270 acres) in size. It is possible that the rubbish dump will be less than this but at the Newick Village Hall meeting on 4th January 2010 we were told it would be no smaller than 25 hectares.
The proposed waste facility is land raise rather than land fill, which means that after removing the top soil to form mounds around the sides the rubbish is then piled up rather than buried and it would rise above the hillside to 25m (80 feet) tall. To imagine what a height of 80 ft looks like see the illustration to the right. The location straddles the path of the 400 kV National Grid power lines and is next to the flood plain of the River Ouse, which feeds into the drinking water supply at Barcombe Reservoir and alleviates the flood defences for Lewes.
The proposed site is nowhere near a railway line so the only way that rubbish can be taken to the site will be by road. The waste trucks that would be used are 80 ton six-axle lorries (as shown on the left). At the Newick Village Hall meeting on 4th January 2010 we were told to expect one truck passing through Newick every 10 minutes, and the same number going the opposite direction through Piltdown. These vehicles will also pass through Chailey, Cooksbridge and Offham and other vehicles may drive through surrounding countryside villages including Fletching, Sheffield Park, Isfield and Spithurst.
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In the run up to the general election we want as many people as possible to join us with The Doorstep Challenge:
When a politician knocks we want you to ask them:
“What are you doing to Save Newick?”.
Download the factsheet and pin it to your door:
Doorstep Challenge A4 PDF (also available A5 PDF)