IMPORTANT: WRITING, EMAILING OR POSTING (TO THE STIRLING COUNCIL WEBSITE) LETTERS OF OBJECTION. Here is your guide to writing and posting letters of OBJECTION. Please feel free to add to the list of issues and/or to post your letters here as examples to others. Douglas Campbell has said weve been given an extention to 4th Feb to write. A public meeting is planned for 22nd Jan to inform people on issues they could raise in their own objection, and to get feedback on issues they want us to include in the community objection. If you do not wish to wait until that date, here are some suggestions that hopefully will make the process more clear: BEFORE YOU WRITE: 1. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOU MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU ARE OBJECTING to the planning application - otherwise it will be regarded as information. Put this in your title and your first sentence. A suggested format is: Dear Ms Brooks-Burnett PLANNING APPLICATION 14/00742/FUL OBJECTION We refer to the above Planning Application submitted by Paterson’s Quarries Ltd and wish to register our objection. 2. Send copies of any objections you send to Councillors, MSPs, the website comment section (below) or to the Stirling Council Planning Department to other parties as well. 3. Consider first doing a draft on a Word document before you go into the Comments site as the page times out quickly and you’ll have to start over if it does. This way you’ll only have to cut and paste. 4. Keep copies of your correspondence. Consider posting them on our facebook page to help others formulate their letters. WHO TO WRITE: 1. Register your objection on the STIRLING COUNCIL WEBSITE PAGE FOR SUBMITTING A COMMENT/OBJECTION: Step 1 Go to pabs.stirling.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=NFWNK7PI0CD00 This takes you to the 14/00742/FUL planning application page Step 2 Click on Register at the top of the page (if you havent already registered to view planning documents) Step 3 After youve registered, go back to the web page address in Step 1 and click on Login at the top of the page Step 4 After logging in go back to the same web page address and click on COMMENTS. If you havent Registered and Logged in it will say: comments may not be submitted at this time Step 5 Opposite where it says STANCE you need to click in the box OBJECT. Below that it gives lots of boxes where you can decide whether or not to put a tick. In the space below you can write your objections and comments. 2. Email Jane Brooks-Burnett at [email protected] who is the Planning Officer for the application. 3. Post (snail mail) your written objections to Jane Brooks-Burnett, Planning, Stirling Council, Municipal Buildings, Corn Exchange Road, Stirling, FK8 2HU 4. Write to or email your Councillor: my.stirling.gov.uk/councillors?theme=MyStirling 5. Write a letter to the editor of the Stirling Observer - John Rowbotham, Editor Stirling Observer john.rowbotham@trinitymirror 6. You can visit and join our Save Gillies Hill facebook page to read others letters and get ideas for your own https://facebook/groups/savegillieshill/ 7. Contact Margaret Strang strang784@btinternetor Marion McAllister marionmacallister@gmail about the local petition - volunteer to help. ISSUES ON WHICH YOU CAN COMMENT: Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety: The proposed route means 132 trips per day on a country road (see Jims Moffet’s letter on our facebook page for facts), passes Kings Park and the tourist road beneath Stirling Castle, crosses known badger trails. Landscape: The destruction of the highest elevations of the hill along with the Giant Redwood grove which is visible from throughout the Stirling area. Health and Wellbeing: The use of Gillies Hill by hundreds of local, regional and visiting recreationists for : hiking, dog-walking, biking, geocaching, educational walks, photography, etc. will be impacted. Rock: The regional requirement for rock is questionable. Does the quarry lie within the parameters of the new Local Development Plan? Historical: The further destruction of Gillies Hill as a site with an Iron Age hill fort and dun - and extensive underground lime tunnels which may be affected by vibrations. Gillies Hill as part of the history of the Battle of Bannockburn as the site where Robert the Bruce’s gillies hid before being called down to battle Flora: The threat of the spread of invasive pirri pirri bur throughout Scotland by lorry if the quarry goes in, the Giant Redwood grove on the top of the hill which will fall, the destruction of the Scots pines semi-natural ancient woodland north of the redwoods. Step 3 After youve registered, go back to the web page address in Step 1 and click on Login at the top of the page Step 4 After logging in go back to the same web page address and click on COMMENTS. If you havent Registered and Logged in it will say: comments may not be submitted at this time Step 5 Opposite where it says STANCE you need to click in the box OBJECT. Below that it gives lots of boxes where you can decide whether or not to put a tick. In the space below you can write your objections and comments. 2. Email Jane Brooks-Burnett at [email protected] who is the Planning Officer for the application. 3. Post (snail mail) your written objections to Jane Brooks-Burnett, Planning, Stirling Council, Municipal Buildings, Corn Exchange Road, Stirling, FK8 2HU 4. Write to or email your Councillor: my.stirling.gov.uk/councillors?theme=MyStirling 5. Write a letter to the editor of the Stirling Observer - John Rowbotham, Editor Stirling Observer john.rowbotham@trinitymirror 6. You can visit and join our Save Gillies Hill facebook page to read others letters and get ideas for your own https://facebook/groups/savegillieshill/ 7. Contact Margaret Strang strang784@btinternetor Marion McAllister marionmacallister@gmail about the local petition - volunteer to help. ISSUES ON WHICH YOU CAN COMMENT: Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety: The proposed route means 132 trips per day on a country road (see Jims Moffet’s letter on our facebook page for facts), passes Kings Park and the tourist road beneath Stirling Castle, crosses known badger trails. Landscape: The destruction of the highest elevations of the hill along with the Giant Redwood grove which is visible from throughout the Stirling area. Health and Wellbeing: The use of Gillies Hill by hundreds of local, regional and visiting recreationists for : hiking, dog-walking, biking, geocaching, educational walks, photography, etc. will be impacted. Rock: The regional requirement for rock is questionable. Does the quarry lie within the parameters of the new Local Development Plan? Historical: The further destruction of Gillies Hill as a site with an Iron Age hill fort and dun - and extensive underground lime tunnels which may be affected by vibrations. Gillies Hill as part of the history of the Battle of Bannockburn as the site where Robert the Bruce’s gillies hid before being called down to battle Flora: The threat of the spread of invasive pirri pirri bur throughout Scotland by lorry if the quarry goes in, the Giant Redwood grove on the top of the hill which will fall, the destruction of the Scots pines semi-natural ancient woodland north of the redwoods. Fauna: The destruction of pine marten, bat, badger, peregrine falcon, and red squirrel habitat, to say nothing of the effect of the operation on the surrounding woodland and its inhabitants. The integrity of Gillies Hill as part of a regional wildlife corridor and Green Zone will be compromised.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:50:12 +0000
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