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Submitted on Behalf of the Residents of Derry Hill and Studley. Objecting Against the Inclusion of Sites Within the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Site Options Report

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Submitted on Behalf of the Residents of Derry Hill and Studley. Objecting Against the Inclusion of Sites Within the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Site Options Report Submitted on behalf of the residents of Derry Hill and Studley. Objecting against the inclusion of sites within the Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Site Options Report. Chapter 3 The Calne Mineral Resource Zone: The Calne Area 4 & The Calne Area 5. C12: Land East of Studley C13: Land South of Studley A C14: Land South of Studley B C15: Land North of Pitters Farm At the time of writing site proposals C12, C13 & C14 had been withdrawn by the land owner. The objective evidence for exclusion of each site remains within this report allowing for future reference. It is formally requested that this information is archived on the County records for future reference. This report reflects the information gained to date and the right to submit further information is retained. This report is submitted to cover all sites, but written to allow individual sites to be filed independently October 2010 Contact: Mrs Alison Maddicks Sandy Lands Old Road Studley Calne Wiltshire SN11 9NF 28th October 2010 Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group Page 1 of 58 Contents Executive Summary 4 Site C12 5 Loss of Agricultural Land Biodiversity & Geodiversity Historic Environment & Cultural Heritage 6 Historic Use Archaeology 7 Listed and Domestic Buildings Human Health & Amenity 8 Landscape, Townscape & Visual 9 Policy NE15 Special Landscape Area (SLA) 10 Economy Traffic & Transportation Site C13 12 Loss of Agricultural Land Biodiversity & Geodiversity Historic Environment & Cultural Heritage 13 Historic Use Archaeology Listed and Domestic Buildings 14 Human Health & Amenity 16 Landscape, Townscape & Visual 17 Policy NE15 18 Special Landscape Area (SLA) 19 Policy HE3 Economy 20 Traffic & Transportation Site C14 21 Loss of Agricultural Land Biodiversity & Geodiversity Historic Environment & Cultural Heritage 22 Historic Use Archaeology Listed and Domestic Buildings Human Health & Amenity 23 Landscape, Townscape & Visual 24 Policy NE15 Special Landscape Area (SLA) 25 Economy Traffic & Transportation 28th October 2010 Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group Page 2 of 58 Site C15 26 Loss of Agricultural Land Biodiversity & Geodiversity Historic Environment & Cultural Heritage 29 Historic Use 30 Archaeology Listed and Domestic Buildings 31 Landscape, Townscape & Visual 32 Policy NE15 36 Special Landscape Area (SLA) Policy HE3 37 Economy Traffic & Transportation 38 Water Environment 40 Appendix 1 41 Listed Buildings in the areas of C12, C13, C14, & C15 Appendix 2 43 Details of archaeological artefacts in the CALNE CALUNA area Appendix 3 47 Location of Historical Finds Appendix 4 49 Mr D Clark’s Nature Survey, October 2010 28th October 2010 Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group Page 3 of 58 Executive Summary The majority of residents of Derry Hill and Studley, within the Parish of Calne Without, are opposed to the utilisation of sites C12, C13, C14 and C15 for sand extraction. They have expressed this opinion with the numerous comments on the consultation portal and in attending the public meeting on the 4 th October 2010. This report seeks to summaries the numerous social, economic, environmental and cultural reasons why sand extraction is not acceptable at these sites. It is the opinion of the Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group, a group formed to co- ordinate a response to the Mineral Site Options Report. This opinion is supported locally and is summarised in the following quote: “The fact of the matter is that people simply do not want sand and gravel extraction anywhere near their homes. They don’t want the dust and the noise, they don’t want the hundreds of HGVs which would be necessary; they don’t want either the rubbish or indeed the water which would follow; they don’t want the rural landscape transformed. And it is only right and proper that they should say so, say so forcefully and continually, and by that means seek to preserve the beauty and the peace and the quite of their rural environment” James Gray MP (October 2010). The main areas of objection are loss of valuable agricultural land, loss of biodiversity and geodiversity, the unacceptable adverse impact on the historic environment, the loss of cultural heritage, the unacceptable adverse impact on the resident’s health and amenity, the economical impact, the effect of additional HGVs and the negative impact on the local water environment. Individually the issues raised are of considerable concern and are likely to be a serious impediment to the development of the sites for mineral purposes. Taken together, they present a wide range of material factors which are likely to create insuperable difficulties for the site's development. As such, these issues provide a clear justification for the Council to remove C15 from its list of potential sites within the DPD and to ensure that C12, C13 and C14 are not allowed to be considered in the future. We request that this is acted upon immediately. Alison Maddicks Studley Co-Ordinator Matthew Maddicks Studley Parish Councillor John Baumber Studley Archaeologist John Wyatt Studley Janet Robins Studley Duane Clark Derry Hill Amateur Naturalist Andrew Pass Derry Hill Andrew Purvey Studley Water Engineer 28th October 2010 Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group Page 4 of 58 Site C12 Land East of Studley (1,420,000 tonnes soft sand) The land East of Studley is an agricultural field, currently supporting a crop of maize, situated north of the A4. This field boarders the residential area of Norley Lane. It is sloped in nature facing easterly and is therefore visible from the settlement of Calne. The site falls within the Special Landscape Area “The higher land of the Spye and Bowood Parklands” and is in close proximity to the Grade One, Bowood Historic House and Gardens. Loss of Agricultural Land The adoption of the site East of Studley to supply soft sand would result in the loss of 14.8 hectares of grade 3 (best and most versatile) agricultural land. Minerals Policy Statement 1 (MPS1) requires the selection of poorer quality land and (Minerals Policy Statement 2) MPS2 requires that the best and most versatile agricultural land is safeguarded for future use. The exploitation of this land for mineral extraction would directly contradict this requirement. On a more strategic level, it also fails to apply Food 2030 (HM Government 2010) which emphasises the importance of UK food security, and states ‘we want UK agriculture to produce as much food as possible'. Biodiversity & Geodiversity C12 borders ancient woodland. The site also borders Crab Tree Copse County Wildlife Site (CWS). We note with interest that Dr Gary Mantle MBE – Wiltshire Wildlife Trust (October 2010) writes: “The site has the potential to cause the greatest ecological damage and it is requested that the site is excluded from further consideration” C12 – Is adjacent to Crab Tree Copse County Wildlife Site Duane Clark (Local Amateur Naturalist) has completed an initial assessment of the areas adjacent to the land (the site itself is in private ownership). He notes that C12 is an open arable field that is adjacent to ancient woodlands. Mr Clark has had a relatively small amount of time to compile a list of the wildlife affected by the changes made by the extraction of minerals from this area. He has expressed concern that there are many vulnerable species that would be adversely affected by the change of use of the land and that this could result in the extinction of these local groups of species. “It is fair to say that most of the wildlife in these areas will spend the majority of their time sheltering in the woods, verges and hedges and will use the open fields as forage, mainly feeding on the insect life and sometimes each other especially whilst the fields are supporting a valuable crop such as maize. The fields in turn, when laid fallow, support the wide variation of insects, whilst the woods, verges and hedges are described as wildlife corridors. If these sites are quarried you will take away the foraging areas rendering the wildlife corridors redundant and the species that can move away will”. 28th October 2010 Derry Hill and Studley Preservation Group Page 5 of 58 “There is a secondary issue that doesn’t just affect the wildlife that uses the hedgerows as shelter and the open field as foraging grounds but the loss of the verges, hedges and trees to allow the access to these sites. It has been discussed that for the large vehicles to access and egress these sites large swathes of land for several hundred metres each side will have to be cut down and then, as seen regularly from the Wickwar quarry in the Wotton-under-Edge area, the verges and bushes along the roads will be full of sand. In many visits I have made to this area I see less evidence of wildlife, when compared to hedgerows around C12, in the verges such as berry bearing plants exhibiting visible evidence of small animals feeding on them, bite marks and dropping etc”. “The restoration may not include every species and will present its own issues as re-introduced species can suffer some horrible issues such as shallow gene pools. When change of use results in the introduction of a new species, there is a whole new issue of compatibility with the remaining species”. “It is not just the animal species that will suffer, the proposed works will undoubtedly alter the natural water supply to the whole area as removing the permeable layer from above the aquifer will not only reduce the amount of filtering and time taken for the rain water to reach the aquifer, it will alter the properties of the water such as mineral content and possibly even the amount and direction of the water flow itself. If this were to happen there will be a change to the surrounding areas affecting the remaining trees and farmland that will surround the quarry/landfill sites.
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