Public anger over asphalt plant

@Patrick, welcome aboard! @Mike, can Ben and I at least meet before we are deported together? :D

@ Tom Spragg,
Aah Vestas, the company living in the Stag Lane "White elephant", that lays the golden egg according to some on here, but in truth the egg is long since addled.
Vestas pulled out of plans for a proposed Sheerness wind turbine factory in June because government would not guarantee Vestas billions of pounds of taxpayers money.
Earlier this year the finance chief of Vestas, the world's largest maker of wind turbines, quit and other directors will not be seeking re-election to the board.
The upheaval came after Vestas reported a loss about four times greater than analysts had expected.
Vestas made a loss last year (2011) of 166m euros, compared with a 156m-euro profit a year earlier. Nice one!
After the way they treated 600 islanders, it could not happen to a more deserving company.

Poxy link doesn't work.

Try searching for TCP/10727/P or P/00941/09. It's then the second pdf down

For all those people who think the proposed plant does not look all that bad, please remember that this artist's impression is how the applicant would like you all to think it would look. But only after many years.

Now take a look at the artist's impression contained in the Vestas planning application from 2009:

http://www.iwight.com/council/departments/planning/appsDIP/temptifpdf/nzyu4255crkeshjitjmhtv55120809081133.pdf

Good, isn't it?

Dear Kevin,

I did not say you were ignorant. I merely said that you (and others) may be ignorant of the planning application details. To which you have now admitted by saying that you had not read the relevant section thoroughly. Even Patrick has performed a U-turn after reading the application thoroughly!

Regarding the conveyor belt, I appreciate you said "if there were a conveyor belt". But the fact remains, there is not one proposed by the applicant. The application as submitted is what matters, not other people's idea of what it should have been, or how it could be.

Wow Ben I remember all that!!

I was at Souters and later FMB

Busy days :-)

(And I seem to recall that the bloke who dove the crane at G&B was an old school mate or mine from Sandown if I was informed correctly)

Actually I've changed my mind about this - an authentic U-turn in fact. Having now seen the site plan and read the cultural heritage report I can see that the proposed plant is actually on land to the south of the former railway sidings which is the site of former oyster beds, now covered by landfill. This is outside the actual area previously occupied by the coal wharf and its associated paraphernalia, and having been used as a rubbish tip, I think it should now be either returned to nature or designated for amenity use, especially given its proximity to the popular cycle track / footpath.
I've now nailed my colours to the pro-Blackwater mast!

furthermore ok so the aggregate may be moved by lorry from the wharf by the crane to the plant, where is the problem in that? the aggregate would be moved only when a ship comes in, if anyone has paid any attention then they would realise the aggregate ships for bardons only come in once every 3 or 4 weeks, its not like its a daily occurance and it wouldnt be much more for eurovia, also the noise volume of that would be no different than that of the yacht haven or shepards wharf during cowes week! maybe some people who are complaining dont realise but medina wharf used to be home to gubbins and ball who ran a concrete operation as well as aggregate supplies and lorry hire, the road linking arctic road and newport road was built in the late 1980's for the purpose of serving medina wharf as prior to that all the lorries travelled along arctic road and joined newport road down near bridge road, the road was purpose designed and built as a haul road for lorries from medina wharf. i do wond

Ben for crying out loud, stop putting sensible and logical facts forward or I will have to deport you to England along with Julia

i like the way people are saying 38 jobs could be lost if the plant down medina wharf is built, it shows how much people have not done their research, the tarmac plant at bardon vectis does not require 38 people to run it, it never has done, the 38 people are throughout the whole site! i wont lie i happen to think its a good idea to have the plant built at medina wharf, its regenerating an industrial area and before anyone says its not near my house, i live in cowes not far from medina wharf and have done for all of my life and im still all for the plant, those people who say bardon vectis's plant is good enough, are you aware that its actually cheaper to buy tarmac on the mainland and pay to have it shipped over here in lorries than it is to buy from bardon vectis? when the road outside sainsburys was resurfaced recently the tarmac used came from john wainwright who are based in somerset, how can that be environmentaly friendly????

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