Detailed Information
The complete set of background documents can be found at the bottom of this page.
1) The uncertainties of the applicable planning law
2) Email between the CIC’s agent and the planners discussing “the second application” show intent for 5X expansion, inclusion of trade waste and increase in HGVs.
3) Management and “preferred operator”
4) Lack of traffic surveys relating to safety and visibility.
5) Planning application and appeal
6) Billed as a “continuation” and “like for like”, effectively Circumventing safeguards afforded, by up to date surveys.
7) Neither current circumstances nor changes since 1983 properly considered.
8) Composition of the CIC & actual or perceived breaches of the code of conduct by the two cllrs shareholders of the CIC.
9) The presence of actual or perceived bias. actual or perceived perversions of the planning process.
Click here for the £20 000 grant to the CIC, WDC 9-20 document
10) Lack of current surveys relating to the future housing development at Risborough.
11) Concerns about carbon neutrality of the current scheme,
12) Danger of site contamination. Lack of inquiry to ascertain the factual position.
13) Various plans, and Green Belt, & AONB not properly considered
Click here for consultation paper of the the Chilterns Conservation Board on the application.
14) Continued desecration of the countryside for mere convenience
15) No investigation as to whether any protected species now inhabit the site, given the length of closure.
16) Location of the site in a buffer zone for the SSSI at Lodge Hill and on an important water aquifer.
Click here for aerial maps of the Buffer zones and the aquifer with captions