Fw: [ecohousing] Urgent petition to stop quarrying plan in Peak District

[Lilia Patterson]

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> From: info at urgent.org.uk <xanthe at urgent.org.uk>
> To: sanri <sanri at yesmate.com>; Lilia Patterson <lilia at tlio.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Fw: [ecohousing] Urgent petition to stop quarrying plan in Peak
District
> Date: 24 January 2001 21:06
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Beverley <sandgrownun at cybermail.uk.com>
> To: <ecohousing at egroups.com>
> Cc: andrew baxter <andrewpb1 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [ecohousing] Urgent petition to stop quarrying plan in Peak
> District
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jean Saunders" <jeanews at gn.apc.org>
> > To: "FoE wildlife" <uk_wildlife at foe.co.uk>; "ENVLIST"
> > <envlist at nwjones.demon.co.uk>; "Eco-housing" <ecohousing at egroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:59 PM
> > Subject: [ecohousing] Urgent petition to stop quarrying plan in Peak
> > District
> >
> >
> > > Please forward on to other lists, as appropriate.
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > >    Just asking for 2 mins of your time to sign this petition.
> > >
> > >    Within the Peak District (Britain's most visited National Park)
> > >  there is a  beautiful area called Stanton Moor. I was VERY VERY
> > >  disturbed to discover  that there are proposals to re-open 2 dormant
> > >  quarries on the hillside below  it. Besides being host to a bronze
> > >  age burial site and the Earl Grey Tower,  the moor also has 4 stone
> > >  surviving stone circles, the most famous being  "The Nine Ladies"
> > >  which dates back to around 2200BC.  It is also a wildlife  haven -
> > >  home to a herd of Norwegian Fallow Deer, countless badger setts, and
> > >    also rare bat habitats.
> > >
> > >    The proposed quarries will cover an area of about 30 acres and
will
> > >  be in  use for the next 40 years. This will obviously have a HUGE
> > >  impact on the  hillside, with disastrous results. To try and protect
> > >  the hillside we need  to encourage the Peak Park to use it's full
> > >  powers under the 1995  Environment Act and to request the Secretary
> > >  of State for the Environment to  "call in" the application for
> > >  determination.
> > >    Some of the problems with the proposals are:
> > >
> > >    * Further degradation of the hillside and setting of the Nine
> > >  Ladies and  Stanton Moor.
> > >    * Decimation of wildlife habitats including badger setts, bat
> > >  roosts, and  rare plants such as heath cud-weed;
> > >    * Threat to the local water table including a spring supplying
> > >  local  residents;
> > >    * Dangerous lorry traffic and access to and from the sites
(picture
> > >  big  lorries and small, windy country lanes)
> > >    * Dangers of quarrying on a geological landslip
> > >    * Noise and dust pollution
> > >    * The old 1952 consent is wholly inappropriate today and runs
> > >  contrary to  Peak Park policies;
> > >    * Effect on visitors and tourism.
> > >
> > >    PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE sign the petition below and then forward it
> > >  on to  everyone you know. Stanton Moor needs all the support it can
> > >  get!!
> > >    When it gets to person 50 please forward it to: Andy Burnahm at
> > >    aburnham at easynet.co.uk
> > >
> > >    To encourage you all to sign your name, Andy Burnham being the
nice
> > >  man that  he is has said he will put everyone who signs the petiton
> > >  in a prize draw.  10 lucky winners will each receive a Stone Circle
> > >  CD-Rom. If that doesnt  encourage you then nothing will!!
> > >
> > >    The meeting is being held on 2nd February so the sooner the better
> > >  please!!
> > >
> > >    THANKS A MILLION EVERYONE!!
> > >
> > >
> > >    (thanks to www.stonehenge.ukf.net for information)
> > >    (For those who want to know/see more check out:
> > >  http://www.megalithic.co.uk)
> > >
> > >    o NEW: Stone Circles - a photographic tour CD-ROM
> > >    http://www.megalithic.co.uk/shop
> > >    o The Stone Circle Webring
> > >    o The Megalith Map http://www.megalith.ukf.net
> > >
> > >
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> > >    Save Stanton Hillside!
> > >    We The Undersigned object to the re-opening of the former
quarrying
> > >  works at  Endcliffe and Lees Cross on the grounds that this will
lead
> > >  to an increase  in heavy road traffic and cause irreparable damage
to
> > >  the Peak District  National Park.
> > >
> > >    NAME: >
> >  E-MAIL ADDRESS: >
> >  1.brock at warband.org
> > >    2. King Arthur Pendragon     pendragon at warband.org
> > >    3. Rachel Kruft Welton    r.a.k.welton at bham.ac.uk
> > >    4. Maureen Thompson      maureen.thompson at virgin.net
> > >    5. Chris Street chris.street at greyeu.com
> > >    6. Diane Manning diane at worldhealing.co.uk
> > >    7.Vince DeCicco twinarrows at aol.com
> > >    8. Liz Rushbrook    Rushbrook at madasafish.com
> > >    9. Jean Saunders jeanews at gn.apc.org
> > >    10. Tom Saunders tomfoolery at tomfoolery.worldonline.com
> > >    11. B.Moy sandgrownun at btinternet.com
> > >    12. X. Bevis xanthe at urgent.org.uk
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> > >    Please return completed petition forms to:- A J Stiles at
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