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.
In 2010, over 120 organisations, companies and interest groups raised their concerns about the waste site proposals but East Sussex County Council have not withdrawn their plans.
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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Over 120 organisations, companies and interest groups commented on the waste site proposals. You can see the full list in Appendix 5 of the comments published on the ESCC web site.
The national elections resulted in a change of government. The new government decided to carry out a review of waste policies. The ‘early’ results are due in Spring 2011.
ESCC state that due to the review, the large number of comments received and changes to national policies they do not expect to publish revised plans until Summer 2011. Thus the ESCC have neither adopted nor rejected their waste site proposal for Newick leaving the area blighted by the possibility of its development. It is a huge concern that ESCC have not accepted the representation already received as sufficient grounds for its withdrawal.