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Eastoft Newsletter 33 Deadline 16th March

Easter Bingo is on Friday 23rd March -

if you can donate a prize, please contact Sue Kent on 798285

South Humber Broadband Programme

The South Humber local authorities of North and North East Lincolnshire are developing a local broadband plan, setting out how superfast broadband access will be rolled-out in our area. The plan must be submitted by mid-March 2012.

The approval of the plan will then allow the South Humber Broadband Programme to access the £2.6m we have been allocated to address the lack of broadband access in our rural areas.

There are surveys for residents and businesses on the relevant pages of the website (details below) – so please if you would like faster broadband can you fill them in asap and encourage others to fill them in too.

http://www.shumberbroadband.info/




Celia Wrangler
Rural Partnership Development Worker
Voluntary Action North Lincs
01652 633297
http://www.vanl.org.uk/

Windfarm Updates for Keadby, Tween Bridge, Thorne and Goole Fields

Cllr Trevor Barker has been in touch, the Radar mitigation for Keadby, Tween Bridge, Thorne and Goole Fields 1 is now in place (based at Hibblestowe). Jolly decent of the wind subsidy companies to 'keep local residents fully informed'.
The "14 turbines at Medge Hall" are in fact 14 of the 22 turbines at Thorne ! - My apologies !
(They seem so close - don't remember that artist's impression !).


Cllr Barker is looking into the Medge Hall wind farm (7 turbines ?) as there is very little made public and nothing online about it !
Does anybody know who's building it, for example ?!


North Lincs Planning are also expecting the Secretary of State to overule their decisions on Saxby and Flixborough and give both the go ahead.


We should also expect a planning application soon from RWE (Goole Fields 1 and 2) for a 7 turbine wind farm at Crowle Grange - next door to the 34 at Keadby, where the anemometer was put up last year (the one we lost on appeal because the Inspector said our argument that we already had enough wind farms was irrelevant to the siting of a foot in the door !).
Surely, North Lincs Planning will throw this straight out ? This area should be declared a 'conclusion zone' ?!


It is clear from the impact of Tween Bridge already, that the 34, and possibly 41 turbines just outside Eastoft and Crowle will dwarf our villages, not to mention the 40 plus turbines just north at Goole Fields and Twin Rivers (will the wind companies be making up for the fall in house prices, for example ?)(then again, perhaps we'll pay less Council tax if our properties slip down a band !).
All this with mounting evidence that wind farms are a very expensive (to the tax payer) way of having little impact on use of power stations and climate change problems, but very lucrative for private wealth ! Business as usual !!
(Not to mention too close to residents - there are health issues - and the large areas of (finite) countryside changing . . .)


Steve Brown

Goole Fields HGVs - Swinefleet Parish Council

Goole Fields HGVs

http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/1292460/rwe-innogy/sites/wind-onshore/united-kingdom/under-construction/community-liaison-forum/

Paul Hirst, Chair of Swinefleet Parish Council is on the forum and sent the following after asking questions on our behalf:
(He is also on the Co-op Twin Rivers forum and will keep us updated).
 

G.F.1 - No traffic your way, all coming from Goole. If you see any report it and it will be stopped.

Asked them to keep Eastoft and Crowle more informed. No confirmation on radar, they are paying in to Thorne and Keadby mitigation, seemed a bit unsure.
We are only allowed to talk about the curent development.
Keep an eye out for where the pylons are going.

 Dont think anyone can stop them putting them where they want.
Paul

A New Bridge for Keadby

Keadby Bridge Begins

Just to put you in the picture, the gates have been opened today (14/02/12) on the A18 to progress the construction of the bridge and construction of the Keadby wind farm project.