"The countryside and coastline at Chilling and Brownwich are some of the real treasures of our area. If we are to protect it, the County Council needs to understand how much opposition there is in our community to their destruction by gravel extraction. We need to make our voices heard. Please don’t leave it to someone else to speak up on your behalf." - 12/12/2007 Mark Hoban MP for Fareham Click for here for council and other contacts HCC REPORT REJECTING CHILLING AND BROWNWICH AS AN ALTERATIVE SITE APPROVED BY FULL COUNCIL. (See News)

LATEST NEWS: HCC rejects the Chilling and Brownwich Site at the full council meeting. Campaign update from the Campaign Team. Warsash Festival Report. See latest news for further Info (click here)

STOP : HCC Reject Chilling and Brownwich site as an alternative site. See our News Page here. Our latest Campaign update bulletin is available here.
Link here to the HCC Sand and Gravel Apportionment SEERA Vote. Make your view on Apportionment known to SEERA

Latest Update
 

The position as at 29th July 2008

We are delighted to report that the Chilling/Brownwich areas are safe - for the time being. They have been removed altogether from the Hampshire Minerals Plan :

1. On 10th July 2008 Hampshire County Council approved the Hampshire Minerals Plan for publication, consultation on its soundness and subsequent submission to the Secretary of State.
    
2. The decision to approve the Plan followed a recommendation by the Hampshire County Council Cabinet at its meeting on 23rd June 2008 when the report of the Director of Environment was considered. That report reviewed HCC's decision-making process and concluded that
   
   "Chilling and Brownwich Farms, Warsash (South Hampshire) should be rejected as alternatives to other areas.”
   
   The reasons stated were:
   
   "appraisal issues (protection of existing uses - agriculture/recreation. Strategic undeveloped and open coastal landscape) - preference for Hamble Airfield and Forest Lodge Farm."
    
3. CamelSolent will remain vigilant and thwart any attempts made to re-introduce Chilling/Brownwich into the Plan. Any such is likely to come from Hamble as Hamble Airfield remains in the Plan.
    
4. The Director of Environment’s report states that nearly 14,000 representations were received from about 5000 respondents and that the three areas of Hamble, Warsash and New Milton generated over two-thirds of the total representations (see post).
    
5. Hamble organised 10 representatives to attend and make representations at the Council meeting on 10th July. CamelSolent decided that representation at the meeting in respect of Chilling/Brownwich was unnecessary as the area was no longer mentioned in the Plan. At the meeting, one Hamble representative asked why Chilling and Brownwich has been "knocked off the list" to which the response was that:-
   
   * The two sites should not be regarded as alternatives.
   
   * The nature of the Chilling and Brownwich site was such that it was entirely inappropriate to include it in the Minerals Plan.
   
   * Chilling and Brownwich had generated many more letters of complaint - over 2000. Hamble was less than half that. People Power working.
    
6. All the arguments put forward on behalf of Hamble objecting to Hamble Airfield's inclusion in the Hampshire Minerals Plan apply equally to Chilling/Brownwich and every other area where gravel extraction is to take place. Effectively the impact on those living in the area. The difference between that situation and Chilling/Brownwich is that this area is a unique, unspoilt, undeveloped part of the countryside including several site of specific scientific interest and available to, and enjoyed by, people from all walks of life across Hampshire and beyond. This contrasts with what is a former airfield likely to be developed in any event. That is the fundamental difference between the two areas and this has obviously been recognised by Hampshire County Council.
   
    

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   All those who attended the meeting at Brookfield School on 5th January 2008 and who subsequently made representations to Hampshire County Council played their part in influencing the decision to remove Chilling/Brownwich from the Hampshire Minerals Plan.
   Well done to you all.

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   29/07/08 CamelSolent Campaign Team.
   
    

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