Save Corringham Green Belt .org.uk

ITV 1 at 8pm

Programme investigating the impact of increasing development on Britain’s green and pleasant land. With at least three million new homes planned, as well as new roads, hospitals and other infrastructure to support them, there is already fierce opposition to more building. How can our planning system cope?

Watch by clicking here. Available until the end of January 2008.

When you look at the Green Belt fields of East Thurrock all you see and feel is calm and tranquility. Not for developers who are worried that archaeological features may put a stop to their Masterplans. It is alleged that world leading experts have been employed (presumed at considerable expense) from Durham University to carry out a Geophysical survey as shown by photos taken in Corringham this week on Green Belt land near Southend Road and Lampits Hill. This is normally done to identify archaeological features in advance of anticipated development. The Masterplan options for East Thurrock and the road to aquire this Green Belt land by developers is obviously more advanced than the general public are told about or led to believe.

As it is coming up to election day on May 1st, ask your Candidate for their views when they knock on your door for support… do they see “Fields of gold” for property development or “Fields of Green Belt” for East Thurrock to enjoy for generations to come; “once it’s gone, it’s gone”.

For more details on Geophysical Surveys and Durham University please click here.

The feedback from the first stage of TTGDC Masterplan is now available.

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation Planning Committee met on Monday 17 March 2008 to review feedback from the first consultation process of the East Thurrock Masterplan.

As reported in the Thurrock Gazette Friday 21 March 2008 “Director of Planning and Strategy, Peter Bassett, said: “We received 4,800 responses from our leafleting campaign. We have also received a petition from Save Corringham Green Belt of 2,841 signatures. The committee will spend time assessing the responses before issuing the Preferred Option”.

Click here to view the full feedback report.

With apologies to Robert Browning.

Oh, to be in England

Now that April’s there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough……

Are gone!

What’s that housing estate doing there?

If you don’t want this to happen you must write more letters. Written before? Write again, ask everyone you know- give the dog a biro. We need to apply as much pressure as we can to prevent this happening.

Write as a matter of URGENCY to Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation as well as Angela Smith MP.

Don’t worry about writing a long letter – just stick to the facts that you don’t want any development on Corringham Green Belt.

Make your voice heard and pass on this message to everyone you know. And please keep asking new people to sign our on-line petition.

Could this Green Belt be lost forever? Once it’s gone, it’s gone !

Perhaps, but East Thurrock’s development plans on Green Belt are an issue that should concern everyone as more details about the development proposals emerge. What was once simply a local furore with Nimby overtones has rapidly escalated into an astonishing series of revelations about the way projects which affect the lives of thousands of people, Continue Reading »