High Heavens

There are x2 separate issues at this site that would affect many residents living nearby (i.e. in Booker, Cressex, Marlow Bottom and the surrounding area’s)

I shall break it down into x2 parts.

1) The smell from the existing composting site.

There have been over 60 reported complaints of bad odours that the Environment Agency have received from June to now, this is one of the agreements that the company running the site CRS have to keep to i.e. not to allow bad odours to be omitted from the facility.
The reported smells range from rotting vegetation a mix of chemical, sour milk, manure and even as extreme as being reported as dead corpses!

I live all the way down in Sands just off from Booker Hill Road and I can sometimes smell it myself and I would describe it as a mix of rotting manure and green waste.

I also hear that a number of businesses in the nearby Cressex Industrial Estate smell it as well.
If you can also smell it and life nearby, please call the Environment Agency on 0800 807060 or email = Incident_communication_service@environment-agency.gov.uk

CRS will be informed that they must do more to stop the number of complaints otherwise they run the risk of losing the licence to run the site (which they themselves built in 2004)

2) Waste Transfer Station

It is proposed that in South Bucks there would be x2 WTS’s. One in Amersham and the other at High Heavens.

The site in Amersham has been turned down for planning permission but it looks likely that BCC will appeal.

However even if this site is not used then they will still plough ahead for High Heavens as the main site meaning that we would get more lorries turning up and leaving the site in Booker (i.e. double the number if Amersham is not set up)

To explain in more detail to what the site is all about:-

Under new EU regulations, less rubbish is to end up in landfill sites and more recycled and also destroyed (i.e. as in the case of Buckinghamshire to be incinerated in the top of the County)
The WTS’s are to be a place where all of the rubbish that’s collect from our weekly bin collections are taken by the collection Lorries, sorted and then transferred to the incinerator at the north of the County.

The idea being to save the fuel consumption and man hours of the collection Lorries and also to separate the waste to what can be recycled, etc

The scary thing that I’ve found out is this:-

The number of lorries movements will no doubt affect the house prices of the route where the lorries take (i.e. all along John Hall Way and turning left into Cressex Road all the way out to Claymore and the proposed site)

There will be noise of the Lorries.

There will be the smell.

Also they are not going to invest into a separate road to lead to the site (ie Ragman’s Road in the field behind) which could have come from the M40 Roundabout direct to the site – this would only have been an option if the stadium plans had gone ahead which was proposed at the Air Park.

Instead the only thing to stop this plan is based on a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for the land next to the current entrance to widen it and make for a better access route.

Because for some bizarre reason planning permission was granted through Wycombe District Council to allow this scheme to go ahead (unlike the failed planning permission that Amersham turned down)

The whole contract is due to be signed by Bucks County Council and the winning bidder next month.

So there we have it, we are not far away from stopping this development (i.e. if you are one of those affected by the WTS in Booker) especially as its likely to affect your house price and you will receive no compensation (i.e. which you would if they decided to build the High Speed train line next to your house)

The only hope is to get organised, please email me at d_hayday@hotmail.com if you would like to help fight this.