Dickleburgh Village Community Web Site
• • • • •

One of the most significant sites in the history of British aviation is in imminent danger of destruction, a leading local historian has warned. A proposal by a developer to place seven 410 feet high wind turbines be erected on the site of the former RAF Pulham in Norfolk, home to the famous “Pulham Pigs”, is “grossly irresponsible”, says historian and archeologist Hadrian Jeffs. “It is quite wrong that such an important historical location, both for East Anglia and for the nation, should be sacrificed in this way.”

Pulham was one of the first British airship stations, serving as an operational base during the Great War, before becoming the Air Ministry’s chief experimental airship facility, with much of the development work for the ill-fated R-101 being undertaken there.

It went on to play a key role in the development of electronic navigation aids, as one of the baseline stations for the Marconi-Adcock Night Effect equipment radio direction-finding system, which was employed by Imperial Airways on their services to the Continent.

Although primitive and unreliable, this was the first step towards the much more sophisticated systems employed by Bomber Command during WW2, and the global traffic control network which makes modern commercial aviation possible. (more…)

Dickleburgh & Rushall Village Centre Management Committee Committee Meeting August 20th 2007 In The Village Centre - 7.00pm

In the unavoidable absence of the Chairman, the meeting was opened by the Secretary, Brian Baker.

Having read copies of the minutes of the June meeting members agreed the content to be duly signed. Matters arising to be addressed in the Secretary’s Report. (more…)

Dickleburgh & Rushall Parish Council.
Progressive House
Flaxlands
Carleton Road
Norwich
NR16 1AD 20/08/2007

List of objections to the proposed erection of a 60m. Anemometry mast. Planning Application Ref. 2007/1357.

1.The actual application procedure and documentation is flawed.
During the early stages of the application procedure, the applicant failed to comply with the simple procedures laid down by SNDC.
They failed to complete the forms correctly in the first instance.
They failed to enclose the correct fees.
They failed to provide the correct number of copies.
They failed to provide a sufficiently informative Design & Access statement
A new D &A statement was subsequently produced on the 3rd August some 6 weeks after the initial application had been received, which has still not been not been issued to the “interested” Parish Councils.

They failed to provide correct information regarding the site area (9 meters instead of some c6500 square meters!) of the proposed development, which has resulted in them paying incorrect fees. This situation has still not been addressed.

They have failed to provide a visual impact assessment of the proposed development stating “It is not considered that long term appearance is relevant as this application is for a period not exceeding 18 months”
Not considered relevant by whom I wonder, the residents of Dickleburgh, Rushall & the Pulhams would certainly disagree as we would hope will SNDC.

There are a number of typographical and reference number errors in the documents provided by SLP. (more…)

The weather was threatening this event scheduled for the garden of Chairman Kathy Leeder, Grey skies boded ill for the day so gazebos were erected fearing the worst!

Fortunately it never happened so the tables were stacked up with homemade cakes, tarts & pies made with garden grown apples & raspberries, meat pies, raffle prizes, tombola, bric-a-brac and lots of punnets & bags of fresh garden raspberries, plums & apples. There was also a barbeque.

Attendance was disappointing, partially due to a problem with the advertising and those grey skies.  But those who came along really “got stuck in” and this relatively small event finally raised the incredible sum of £240.00. This is to be shared between the Good Companions Club and the Macmillan’s Nurses and demonstrates what a lot of hard work and the committed support of club members can do.

At their regular meeting on Thursday 16th August final arrangements for the Garden Party on Saturday 18th were made and goods for the Tombola and Raffle assembled. After tea and cake, Bingo followed.

To be held at the Dickleburgh Hall from 12 Noon contact Beryl on 01379 741259 for more information.

Dickleburgh & Rushall Parish Council. 2/08/07

Mr. Richard Cooper
Senior Planning Officer
South Norfolk District Council
Long Stratton
Norfolk.

Planning ref. 2007/1342.

Scoping Opinion response to a proposal to erect 7 wind turbines in the parishes of Dickleburgh & Rushall & the Pulhams

Dear Richard.

Further to your letter of 20th June 2007,Dickleburgh & Rushall Parish Council respond as follows.

You will be aware that on the 25th July we arranged for a Public meeting to be held at the Dickleburgh & Rushall Village Hall to discuss the above proposal and to assess the impact that the development might have on the lives of our Parishioners.
You, our District Councillor Martin Wilby, the “action” group and some 300 Parishioners attended this meeting. Sadly both the proposer and the landowner declined our invitation to attend

After a long but fair and open debate and discussion the overwhelming view (97%) of the parishioners of Dicklebugh & Rushall was that this development should NOT be allowed to happen.

I hope that the list that follows contains most of the local issues & concerns which in our view must be addressed and satisfied before ANY planning application regarding this proposal can be considered.

You will notice that I have not gone into great detail about national and regional issues regarding proposals of this type, but simply used the headlines for these areas of concern as most of them are known to you already as the Planning Authority responsible for this application and I assume will form a part of any requirements placed upon the developer. I have simply supplied more detail about the specific local issues and concerns of our parishioners.

Issues of Concern. (more…)