Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Planning objections have greater weight when individual letters and emails are
submitted rather than a petition. So it’s worth scouting through the application and
seeing what applies.
How the planned development doesn’t fit with the surroundings in terms of
use and design.
Impact on road traffic, parking and general road safety.
Disruption to local life including such things as noise and light pollution.
Negative environmental impacts.
How the plans are not in keeping with the surroundings in terms of design and
use.
How the plan departs from the approved development plan for that area.
Animal Aid’s recent objection to the Rufforth was centred on the following points. We
hope this will give you some ideas that might be relevant to other similar
applications.
Noise
Noise disruption to nearby properties through a constant high level of noise
from high velocity roof exhaust fans.
Geology/soils
The presence of nearby arable land, which could be used to grow crops for
human consumption.
Flood risk
Flood risk, which if un-mitigated could lead to moderate adverse impact.
Groundwater/ Acquifer
Whether site lies upon a principal aquifer, carried by the underlying bedrock.
Groundwater resources which have been assessed to be highly sensitive to
impacts.
Concerns about contamination of local waterways engendering humans and
wildlife.
The presence of groundwater abstraction licenses.
The presence of local water courses such as streams.
Drinking water safeguard zone
Whether the site if considered a ‘Safeguard Zone (Surface Water).
Light pollution
Concerns about light pollution, especially during times when surrounding trees
and other vegetation are not in full leaf.
Socio-economic impacts
Negative impacts on the local economy due to people not wishing to visit the
site.
Human health and safety
Intensive poultry farms still represent a serious health and safety hazard,
since the crowded, dirty conditions form an ideal breeding ground for
contagious diseases.
Diseases such as avian flu, campylobacter and salmonella can be transmitted
to human workers, or transferred on their clothing, and carried out into the
wider community, putting lives at risk.
Increased traffic
Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) are anticipated to visit the site each day during
construction works and once the site is operational. The associated threat to
local resident’s health and safety.
Concerns about the impact of additional HGV traffic upon unsuitable rural
roads.
The potential air quality impacts during the operational phase includes:
Dust, odour and ammonia from the operation;
Vehicle exhaust emissions including nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter
associated with Heavy Goods Vehicles and cars visiting the farm.
Residual emissions from the stacks serving the biomass boilers.