public consultation has begun!!!!

[Freddie Fisher IV]

We may now submit comments on the "Minerals Core Strategy" document to Staffs County Council. In the document the Council lays out its strategy for deciding upon which sites can be quarried, currently Folly Wood is listed as a potential site. Submitting our concerns at this stage is an indirect method of opposing the quarrying of Folly Wood by (a) showing the inclusion of Folly Wood to be inconsistent with their overall strategy (b) demonstrating the strength of local opposition.

http://consult.staffordshire.gov.uk/portal/mcs/io2

The documents would make Sir Humphrey proud, a few of us have had a trawl though. Our strongest objections focus on 'sustainability' - which encompasses traffic, local environment and global warming. We have a strong case, our roads cannot safely carry all these extra HGVs (100 per day), a quarry would decimate our local environment, and chopping down a forest and long distance road transportation makes it inherently worse for global warming than other sites.

No site is perfect, and any quarry will cause environmental damage. We just have to show ours is the least sustainable of their current options.

[Ashley Howells]

Other lines worth airing  ..... economies of scale/cost benefit arguments - relatively small site - low economies vis a vis site restoration and high social costs/poor cost benefit balance vis a vis environmental/pollution/highways/social impact

[A Fisher]

Map showing Folly wood is really good, particularly as it demonstrates the unsuitability of local roads for a major increase in HGV's and the potentially very dangerous access into and out of the site

[oakleyfollygundogs]

Hi there, we live in Oakleyfolly, and new nothing of such plans until we returned home from work yesterday evening and saw the signs !

Spoken to our neighbours and they were the same, as the wood is at the foot of our back gardens this affects us more than anyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks 

[Neal and Carole]

Given the proximity of Almington quarry which still has over (reputedly) 300,000 tonnes of sand and gravel to be extracted and at a time when the operators at Almington are downsizing the workforce, particularly in the are of haulage, due to reduced demand, what is the economic argument in favour of more extraction from another site? This is over an above the other objections already raised.

[peter£s]

The mud on the road would be horrific with this amount of lorries, cause accidents etc.  I was once upon a time involved in this type of Transport and know only too well the havoc that mud on the highway causes.

[quinn]

The staffordshire website isn't exactly user friendly.   How do you chip in?
And will there be a petition?

[Matthew V]

Hi there is a petition on this :

http://www.bloreheath.org/folly_wood.php

[Matthew V]

Just a quick question, why havent any of the residents at Oakley Folly or within Loggerheads not recieved any of the special objection flyers?