BASILDON GOLF COURSE - FURTHER THREAT TO BASILDON'S GREEN BELT

5.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sun 21st Oct 2007

With hundreds of thousands of tons of rubble dumped on it, this land will be blighted for ever. (photography: Geoffrey Williams)

Basildon Golf Course - to be blighted for ever ?

Local residents cannot fail to have noticed the increasing press and media furore over recently passed plans to redevelop Basildon Golf Course. Proposals to import 120,000 cubic metres of "inert material" on to green belt at the site. No-one seems to know where this material will come from and no-one, not least Basildon's ruling Tory councillors, has shown concern for the very real health impact that the dumping and processing of concrete etc. will have. The hospital wasn't consulted, nor St. Luke's hospice, both within a couple of hundred yards of the course. Resident consultation was kept to a bare minimum and there were procedural errors during the application process. Despite widespread opposition, including from the three Lib Dem ward councillors, Basildon council is blundering ahead with probably the "most environmentally irresponsible plan" (Cllr Geoff Williams) seen in Basildon for years.

Residents Protest Against Golf Course Plans (photography: Geoffrey Williams)

The Friends of Basildon Golf Course have been formed to continue the protest

Residents have formed themselves into an opposition group and can be contacted at www.basildongolfcourselp.com.

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