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Weʼve raised £1,020 to Please help us save a beautiful stretch of Wiltshire countryside from destruction.
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The Calne and District SOS group (CDSOS) has been formed by local residents to campaign against and to monitor any future plans to exploit the surrounding areas between Calne and Compton Bassett.
The formation has been initially to protest against Planning Applications which have been filed by Hills Quarry Products Ltd. Ref. 16/05464 and 16/05708.
These are to obtain the permission to extract sand and build an open conveyor across adjacent fields.
The deadline is August 12th 2016 to object to these particular applications so time is short and immediate action is vital.
The applications are due to be heard in early September in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, when the future of this beautiful part of the countryside will be decided.
CDSOS wishes to save the area under threat which is adjacent to ancient woodland, Anglo Saxon archaeological remains, a water course, public footpath and a bridleway. All of these will be permanently affected by the proposed workings.
In the short to medium term the area will be blighted by noise and dust which may well create a health risk.
In the longer term there will be a loss of grade 2 agricultural land, the local ecology will lose ancient hedgerows, ponds and have a potential negative impact on the adjacent Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Reserve. Those living in the area will suffer a reduction in their quality of life.
All this potential destruction is just to extract sand - when the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Extraction Plan 2006–2026 shows that Wiltshire does not require the sand yield from this sensitive site.
There are other fields that in turn maybe exploited leaving the present environment change forever.
Funds raised will be used to promote our cause through a website, leafleting, media information and public demonstration.
Further information is to be found at http://www.comptonbassett.com
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- 8 years ago
Jeremy Monk
8 years agoThank you to you all for the donations to date. The group has been busy leafleting 100's of households in the area with numerous positive reactions to our efforts. ( some not so.) The appeal is now on social media and this has generated some donations already. The proposed website www. calne-sos.org.uk has been commissioned and should be live later this week. Contact to the group can already be made to info@calne-sos.org.uk At the time of reporting some 66 objections from the public have be scanned and logged by the Wiltshire County Counci
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Anonymous
Aug 27, 2016
£50.00
Nikki Fox-Berrett
Aug 26, 2016
£100.00
Anonymous
Aug 15, 2016
Stop HILLS Trashing Wiltshire, and putting profit before people.
£50.00
Anonymous
Aug 11, 2016
£30.00
Anonymous
Aug 9, 2016
£100.00
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Aug 9, 2016
£100.00
Anonymous
Aug 6, 2016
£50.00
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Jeremy Monk
I am a member of a new group called Calne and District SOS set up to safeguard our local environment from unnecessary exploitation and destruction.