Your local Conservative councillors have slammed plans to start cement extraction works in the East India Dock Basin - calling them completely inappropriate and a blight on the landscape.
The Thames Gateway Development Corporation will shortly be considering an application by Aggregate Industries UK to erect a transfer site on Orchard Wharf handling 600,000 tonnes of aggregate and cement powder each year. This will be unloaded from barges and removed on lorries, which will add 200 journeys each day to this already congested area.
Blackwall councillor Peter Golds says “This is not an appropriate place to build this - for over two decades there have been steady improvements to this area and it is now under threat from this application.
The response from Virginia Quay and Trinity Buoy Wharf residents has been magnificent. We are building up a very strong case for refusal to put to the TGDC when they consider the application. Here we are turning the whole area into a showcase for the world in preparation for the Olympics, and a company wants to blight the entire neighbourhood with a cement works.”
UPDATE 14 JULY 2011
Please see the letter sent to Virginia Quay residents from Cllrs Peter Golds, Tim Archer and Gloria Thienel with the latest information regarding the development.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61394995/Virginia-Quay-June-2011
If you are concerned about the cement works, or would like more information on how to object to the plans, please contact Cllr Peter Golds on 020 7537 3109 or [email protected]