{"id":3288,"date":"2025-04-22T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:52:17","slug":"total-traffic-disaster-may-break-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwns.co.uk\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"“Total traffic disaster” may break bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE 16 July 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Society has striven, most strenuously, to ensure that the \u00a0Wallerscote Solar Farm Planning Application, basically promoted by TATA Ltd., the owners of the site, should be refused.<\/p>\n

The increased road traffic will cause incredible road chaos as it is likely that two max. Load HGV\u2019s a minute will be passing over Winnington Bridge during working hours for FIVE years.<\/p>\n

Our President, John Tackley, agreed to oppose this application at the preliminary hearings, as there was, justifiably much opposition from all the local parish councils and other interested local groups, all demanding total rejection of this totally fanciful, but incredibly profitable project.<\/p>\n

Many behind the scenes meetings took place to plan the opposition, and John attended these, and opposed the scheme involving road delivery vehemently.<\/p>\n

John spoke at the two planning committee meetings and copies of what he said are available, and the outcome was planning permission was refused.<\/p>\n

The applicants appealed this decision, and John’s statement, presented at the final meeting, is attached below.<\/p>\n

Many of our members will not even be aware of the existence of this application, but we wish you to know that we have spent many hours, in fact, days, to ensure that the whole area will suffer mightily if this planning application is approved as envisaged, whereas to deliver the landfill by river is entirely possible without any aggravation, but with, perhaps, the sacrifice of a small amount of the vast profit that will accrue for the proposers.\u201d<\/p>\n