On a brilliant, but rather fresh morning, about thirty people assembled on Valley road yesterday to participate in the Suffolk County Council site visit to examine the proposals to extract gravel (plus some related industrial processes) from land between Chilton and Great Waldingfield.
Pictured above are the site itself, the group discussing the adjacent A134, local residents, Peter Clifford (in red) Chairman of Chilton Parish Council, and Viv Codd the officer from SCC with the Chairman of the SCC Development Committee. When I photographed the A134 the road was uncharacterisingly deserted, but luckily the usual flow of juggernaughts and speed merchants appeared in time for them to be fully appreciated by the County Councillors!
The site meeting was lead in an exemplary fashion by the Chairman of SCC Development Committee. The site was fully walked, and everyone present had a chance to have their say. I do feel that people in Great Waldingfield and Chilton should feel that most issues were adequately aired.
The matter comes up for discussion at Babergh, which is a consultee, on Wednesday 28th November and Colin Spence, District Councillor for Waldingfield and County Councillor for Sudbury East, will be making representations at that time.
