Hearing tomorrow

Just a reminder it is the hearing tomorrow at the Civic Center, Chester-le-Street, Council Chambers 2 o'clock just turn up no notice is required. It shouldn't take too long and hopefully we can all get on with our lives afterwards.

This article appeared in the Echo today, the link is below in case you didn't catch it.

Link to article

MP Kevan Jones with left to right; David Thompson, Rita Carr and Guy Starkey, at the Par Petroleum depot, Lumley New Road, Woodstone Village.

Hearing Date

The Committee Hearing date has been set for 25th April 2013 - 14:00 at Chester-le-Street Council Chambers.

WE NEED YOU THERE!
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND STRENGTH OF OPPOSITION TO THE PLANNING APPLICATION
If you lodged an objection you should have received details, if not then please contact the Planning Team and make sure your  Objection has been lodged.

DIRECT LINK TO THE HEARING PAPERS

 

Committee hearing 25th April 2013

Just a quick note to say the committee hearing will be at 14:00 on Thursday 25th April 2013 - next Thursday.
The venue I believe is Chester-le-street Council Offices.
If you objected you will get notification of this, if not then please contact the planning Dept.
We need your support and a show of strength on the day.

Update - further amendment

Further to the amended application the Planning Officer has received a response following a request for further clarification around operating times.

It has been clarified that the original detail define the hours of opening of the facility as 08:00 – 18:00 Monday – Friday, and 09:00 – 12:00..... This in fact relates to the Office hours, not the hours of vehicular operation. The applicant currently operates the site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and seeks to continue this operation on the proposed extended site.

The Planning Office wish to hear any additional comments you may have about this by the 21^st March 2013. Please take the opportunity to draw your own conclusions and make a comment.

Please note that if you respond through the web portal that you should put your name and address details on there to ensure you receive a reply in the post, invites to the hearing etc.

Also the Planning Dept would like you to know that they are available to talk to anyone about this should you wish to seek clarification about the application or the planning process.

In our opinion we have a problem here as soon as we have pressed the issue about operating out of hours there has been a revision made which appears to accommodate the applicantion. I do not know what is worse, the fact that this can happen in the first place or the fact that the Company now wish to operate 24/7 – 7 days per week? We all know that they currently do not do that, yeah they sometimes stay open for stragglers but just extended hours - normally if they are open it is no later than 7pm. 

Remember the main issues:

Incursion into the greenbelt – for negligible economic impact and development.
Risk – which PAR now wish to increase even more by operating 24/7, increased chance of explosions, increased impact on the highway, etc
Drainage – the Lumley New Road struggles to cope now never mind after expanding the site. Will the Council pay for upgrading the drainage?
Screening – everything that has been proposed will NOT screen the site. Unless they are going to stick the leaves back on in winter!
Light pollution – it will be like living next door to a non league football ground, except their lights will switch off after 9:30.#

You may have your own slant on this or specific point of view, if so then do not keep it to yourself time is running out.

Diary + Pencil

Hi All
The Objections are in but if you haven't expressed your opinion please continue to do so, everyting received must be considered up to any Committee Hearing.
With that in mind please pencil in 28th Feb and 28th March 2013 as a possible hearing dates. However, the 28th March seems to be the more likely at this time.
Thank  You