Composting is nominally a “good thing”, all things being equal. Unfortunately, the new application (13/01916/WCM) at Mopes Lane (technically at Parkgate Farm) to increase the composting tonnage to 50,000 tonnes per year comes at a cost. Since these extra tonnages are coming from the proposed tyre-shredding operation that never happened, it is also carrying over the additional Heavy Goods Vechicle movements from that proposal. This relentless increase in HGV movements is battering the local road feeding Mopes Lane, and carving up the verges. It is long overdue to call time […]
Archive for August, 2013
Widham Farm Appeal
With about four weeks notice, the date for the next Widham Farm Appeal is now set. It will be spread over three days; two at Trowbridge and, unusually a little closer to home, at Cricklade. The Trowbridge dates are 17 and 18 September and the Cricklade one is a week later on 24 September. As usual, each day begins at 10 am and if you want to speak then you have to register for this at 10 am on the day, even though you may not get called to speak […]
Going too fast?
A lot of people comment about speed. It is possible to re-designate streets. There is an opportunity to comment on the plan for Wiltshire Council’s Policy on 20 mph speed limits zones – before 21 September 2013. Wiltshire Council is seeking views on its draft policy for 20 mph speed restrictions. The draft policy covers both 20 mph zones and 20 mph speed limits and sets out the criteria to be used to identify and assess the locations where 20 mph restrictions could be introduced. The policy also sets out […]
Ridgeway Farm ~ object or not to object
A bit of a crazy time with Ridgeway Farm. Since the two current applications were not “called in” so that they could be decided by councillors, they will now be decided by Wiltshire Council officers. This is fine for small applications such as household ones ~ not easy to get those wrong. But I would have thought that all big contentious applications with far-reaching consequences should automatically be brought before our elected councillors for scrutiny. Especially, since a short while ago Thames Water put in an objection to the application. […]
Accessing Wiltshire Council Information
Yet another “portal” has opened up to help us all find useful information about Wiltshire Council. The latest is called “My Area” and is found on www.wiltshire.gov.uk. This adds to other key sources also produced by Wiltshire Council: the Royal Wootton Bassett and Cricklade “Our Community Matters” for the Council and local groups to promote local events in various parts of the community area. Then there is the neighbourhood planning web site for Wiltshire but trying to get to our neighbourhood planning information from there is not intuitive at all. […]