PROTEST outside West Sussex County Council Meeting

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
9:45 AM 10:45 AM 09:45 10:45

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Please join Frack Free Sussex and other groups outside the meeting of the County Council’s Planning Committee on Tuesday 29th April, 2014 at 9.45am. The press will be there and we need to show a united, dignified front, illustrating Sussex voters are against this (and further) planning applications.

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AGENDA: Councillors are due to consider several applications including for further oil and gas exploration at Lower Stumble Wood near Balcombe and for inert recycling at Burlands Farm near Crawley.

The next meeting of West Sussex County Council’s planning committee will take place at County Hall North in Horsham.

(The change of venue for the meeting on Tuesday, April 29 is due to on-going repair work to the ceiling in the council chamber at County Hall in Chichester.)

The agenda for the meeting will be published and available from www.westsussex.gov.uk from April 17.

West Sussex County Council’s planning committee is a meeting held in public.

The meeting will be held in the Park Suite, is due to start at 10.30am, numbers will be limited but the meeting will be webcast live.

The planning committee provides an opportunity for several members of the public who have submitted a representation on an application to directly address the committee with issues of concern to them.

Speakers are allowed up to five minutes to speak. Public speaking at Planning Committee meetings is governed by the protocol on public participation and subject to the discretion of the Planning Committee Chairman. For more infomation http://www2.westsussex.gov.uk/ds/cttee/plngctteepublicparticipation.pdf

The agenda, which includes Planning Officers’ Reports and recommendations for each of the items, will be published on April 17 and will be available to view at www.westsussex.gov.uk
The meeting is being webcast live and archived versions of it will also be available to view.

Helen Card | Principal Community Officer | Central Mid Sussex | Gatwick Diamond Team | Communities and Economic Development | West Sussex County Council | Post point 1.4, 1st Floor, County Hall North, Chart Way, Horsham | Helen.Card@westsussex.gov.uk

Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

In the USA, towns near fracking sites have seen cancer rates rising, water supplies running out and the poisoning of land, livestock, pets and people by hazardous air pollutants. Water that was once pristine is now so contaminated with methane that it can be set alight. Industry studies show 5-7% of all new oil and gas wells leak and ALL wells will leak eventually.

Our water supply, which comes predominantly from the chalk aquifer, would be threatened.

Property values are falling in areas near drilling sites.

Even the energy secretary says fracking WON’T REDUCE ENERGY BILLS.

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PROTEST outside West Sussex County Council Meeting

Frack Free Sussex

Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

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