Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, the county’s largest locally based environmental charity, has today confirmed it will be objecting to plans to extract pulverised fuel ash (PFA) from former ash disposal lagoons south of Lound, near Retford – immediately adjacent to the Trust’s largest site – the Idle Valley Nature Reserve.
At the heart of the reserve is the Sutton & Lound Gravel Pits Site of Special Scientific Interest and the charity, which has previously responded to a technical Scoping Consultation and highlighted its concerns over possible impacts on wildlife habitats, feels it has no option but to object due to the lack of sufficient detail in the Planning Application about the likely impact of noise, dust and hydrogeological changes on the wildlife of the nature reserve and surrounding area.