No offence taken Crested Newt, it made me check up my 'facts' more thoroughly, in fact I've another apology to make to mrs Fish - I was under the impression SnOsis was going to be built at the far end of the quarry currently being used for landfill when actually it is going in another quarry set even further back (from the road) with a sort of 'access corridor/finger' connecting it to a new roundabout to be built at the junction with the B1113 (near to where the Suffolk County Council Highways Dept' salt depot is for the gritting lorries)
The old dusty Blue Circle (Mason's) cement factory site will in fact be used for housing accommodation for staff (or guests) with another access lane going through the fuel depot to get to the complex.
As I said in an earlier post, I helped construct the fuel depot which was built to supply JP4 jet fuel for the Yanks at Woodbridge and Bentwaters air bases.
The fuel was pumped along underground pipelines all the way from Scotland, Milton Keynes, Gt Blakenham and on to the bases.
Four storage tanks each holding 5 Million gallons (if my memory is correct) of JP4 were built just underground and capped with tons of soil to suppress an explosion which was designed to go straight up in the air.
The new housing mini estate will be perilously close to the corner storage tank just across the road. I've no idea if the tanks are in use still.
At the top of the hill in Chalk Hill Lane there is a strange round concrete construction about a yard high and 10 yards across in a field with a notice with an emergency phone number on it, this is an inspection chamber for the hush hush pipeline. One of the 2 nine hole golf courses for will be built here.
It seems Natural England (formerly English Nature) have dropped all their objections apart for the G C Newt, insisting they must be transferred to another pond as good or better than their existing pond.
I must stress the bat cave is in a separate quarry half a mile away from the boundary with SnOasis with the entrance facing away from any glare from SnOasis and a hill in between, but it is their flight path which could be affected. Other quarries are nearby with suitable ponds so that may be why NE have dropped this objection.
Right ! I'm off to bed.
