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We’ve won the battle, but the war is not over yet!” said Jean Locker of Thakeham Village Action group (TVA). But there’s a huge sense of euphoria in the area - particularly in the villages of Thakeham, Shipley, Coolham and Ashington - after Cory Environmental opted to ditch plans for a landfill waste site at Laybrook Brickworks site. After a spirited campaign, including marches through the streets, petitions, demonstrations and hundreds of banners along the Adversane to Ashington road - news of the application’s withdrawal came as a bolt out of the blue for campaigners. It means that the threat of hundreds of lorries pounding along a rural road to a mountain of rotting rubbish has mercifully passed for local residents. The news is great news for people like Nick HarringtonSmith, a partner at The Alpaca Stud, just 300 yards from where the landfill site was proposed. Nick said: “The landfill site would have been the end of the stud farm. It would have in-
creased the likelihood of disease from vermin and foxes, and our clients would not have entrusted us with their animals if they believed there was that risk there. “The news of the withdrawal is therefore a great relief to us. I believe that the pressure put on Cory by TVA was too great in the end. I think (Cory) could see that everything was starting to stack up against them.” As Jean Locker pointed out, the threat is not over yet, as Laybrook is also on a list of potential sites for non-inert landfill in West Sussex County Council’s Minerals and West Development Framework. However, it is hoped that with the level of opposition shown local MPs Francis Maude and Nick Herbert were among those in a protest march last summer, and Horsham District Council representatives have spoken out against the scheme - the County Council will be reluctant to pursue the plan. Jean said: “The big threat (from Cory) has gone and there’s a lot of happy faces in
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