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Dorset County Council have included Roeshot in a list of sites being considered to be included in their Minerals Site Allocations Document (MSAD). This will be part of their overall Minerals Framework. We have only until Dec 12th to raise objections or make comments on the site proposals. (see below)
Roeshot is expected to be worked for at least 15 years, and potentially in-filled with inert waste. The number of lorries is expected to number at least 80 in and 80 out per day. Access would be via the ‘Pick Your Own’ entrance off the busy A35, and the site would stretch to within 300 yards of Burton. The Roeshot site straddles the border between Dorset and Hampshire, and Hampshire have already listed their side of Roeshot as a reserved site for gravel extraction. If both Dorset and Hampshire are successful then approximately 6.5 million tonnes of sand and gravel would be extracted, over a period of at least 15 years, making this a site of mammoth proportions!
Please access the link below for information on the proposed gravel site. The link is the official site document form Dorset County Council, and includes the site map (N.B. this does not include the Hampshire side of the site)
MSADAS13Roeshot - please note if using dial-up that file is 3MB in size
If you wish to object to the proposal by Dorset Council, then please contact them before 12th Dec. You can email them at mwdf@dorsetcc.gov.uk
or use the link to their objection form at
http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media/pdf/h/0/MSAD_Response_Form.pdf
or write to them at :-
Dorset County Council
Minerals and Waste Policy
Environmental Services
County Hall,
Colliton Park
Dorchester
DT1 1XJ
Please see below for WRAGE’s main reasons for objecting to the proposed site at Roeshot.
- The potential eventual size of the combined sites if both Hampshire’s and Dorset’s are successful
- The site is in the Green Belt and contains farming land
- There is a Site of Special Scientific Interest on the border with Burton Common
- Archaeology potential of the site i.e. tumuli
- Proximity to Residential Properties - especially Burton
- Public footpaths cross the site
- Watercourses could be contaminated, which lead to the River Mude
- The site will affect the setting of the New Forest National Park and the main tourist ‘gateway’ to the Forest
- There are many problems around the site access from the A35
- The large and under estimated amount of gravel and in-fill lorries
- Lorry journeys through the wider area, especially on the A337 (through Highcliffe) and A35
- In-fill - The site is unsuitable for even household waste because of the high water table.
- The unreasonable burden on our area given the number of other existing and proposed sites.
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