"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 Come and see us on our stand at the Warsash Festival Saturday 5th July at Strawberry Fields, Warsash. HCC REPORT TO REJECT CHILLING AND BROWNWICH AS AN ALTERATIVE SITE. (See News)

LATEST NEWS: HCC Report rejects the Chilling and Brownwich Site. See us at the Warsash Festival (5th July) Strawberry Fields, where Mark Hoban MP will be making a presentation to the Warsash Beaver Group at 13:45. See latest news for further Info (click here)

STOP : HCC To 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

The Campaign
 

8 MILLION TONS OF GRAVEL EXTRACTED AND THEN INFILL ON YOUR DOOR STEP

THE HAMPSHIRE MINERALS PLAN IN RESPECT OF THE CHILLING AND BROWNWICH ESTATES WILL DESTROY THE AREA AS WE KNOW IT AND HAVE FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES FOR LOCKS HEATH SARISBURY GREEN, TITCHFIELD, WARSASH, PARK GATE

The Plan details the vast area of Chilling and Brownwich (equivalent to the area of 70 St Mary Stadiums) as an “Alternate Site” with Hamble and other locations as “Preferred Sites.”
Hamble and others are putting up a fierce campaign to come off the list. If they succeed and Chilling and Brownwich become “Preferred Sites” EVERYONE IN THE AREA WILL BE AFFECTED.

The plan will mean the devastation of 300 hectares, which is 4 square miles of your countryside, Swallowing up farmland, bridleways, wildlife & spectacular coastline.

ALL OF US will be affected by suffering continuing noise and vibration from quarrying machinery; choking dust and pollution; falling house prices; traffic congestion and disruption with 400,000 large gravel lorries using local roads and lanes. Walks, bridleways, wildlife, important recreational areas and tranquil countryside will be destroyed and replaced by large deep, steep gravel pits and infill.

The Echo reports a HCC spokesperson as saying; “if any site is taken off the current “list” it will have to be replaced by something else” meaning an alternate site will be upgraded to a preferred site.

Look at what has happened at Port Solent over the past years !

You can view the relevant documents online at the Hampshire County Council Planning Website link. You can also view the objections online via the consultation website on the section 45 page There is an view objections icon to the right of the pAPA4 map (about half way down the page).

The initial consultation deadline has passed, but we are still working behind the scenes on the campaign. For example we will be at the Warsash Festival on 5th July 2008. We have also been talking to some of the local photographers and artists and on our links page we have added a link to David Brim's online gallery of photos from the Chilling and Brownwich area.

If you would like to join the Action Group please email us or to be kept informed of events, please register with our Yahoo Group mailing list camelsolent-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk

CAMEL – Campaign Against Mineral Extraction and Landfill
 
We have formed an action group called CAMEL Solent and have already;

• Negotiated an extension date with HCC Planners from 12/12/07 to 15/01/08 so you can write or submit your protest online.

• Organized local press coverage.

• Produced a list of objections for you to use.

• Set up an email account ….. info@camelsolent.org.uk and this web site www.camelsolent.org.uk from 12/12/07.

• Canvassed and put leaflets out across the areas.

• Involved our local Councillor Keith Evans who has given us his support.

• Involved our local MP Mark Hoban (with the kind help of Keith Evans).
   

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C.A.M.E.L Solent was set up by a group of concerned local residents on 1/12/07 to campaign and lobby against the Mineral Extraction Plan and infill. Our actions and campaign are based on information we have obtained from a wide source of public documents, however we take no personal responsibility for the accuracy of the material provided. All relevant papers are available from Hampshire County Council.
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