IMPORTANT UPDATE: Council Planning Meeting Rescheduled to the 11th Feb

Yesterday we had confirmation from the Environmental Law Foundation that we will receiving support to fight the proposals by Blythe Park Power.  On Tuesday evening we will be meeting our appointed legal representative who will be scoping out our legal action plan!  Thanks ELF!!

On the 16th December representatives of the Villagers Voice Staffordshire Moorlands action group will be meeting senior representatives from the developers Blythe Park Power.  If you have any questions that you would like asked please do email them to info@darrentranter.co.uk.

Our Chairman Darren Tranter attended the launch of the Draft Energy National Policy Statements for the to be launched IPC on the 2nd December at the Hilton Hotel, Kensington, London. 

MORE than 1,000 people have now signed up to oppose plans to build a power station in Cresswell.
Around 50 people heard how our campaign against plans for the proposed gas-fired station Blythe Park industrial estate is gaining momentum.
As well as gathering 850 names on a written petition and another 170 objections on the Number 10 website, the group has:

Yesterday shoppers in Hanley were left more than a bemused after a silent rave outside the Potteries Shopping Centre.

A handful of people stopped to make twist, tap and make shapes on the stroke of yesterday.

Hundreds were signed up to the Facebook group although it looks as though many were deterred by the day's rain, which luckily stopped for the event.

That said, we attracted another 50 signatures to the ever-growing list of people against the proposals.

Today a formal application was presented to the Department for Energy and Climate Change for plans to build the power station in Cresswell.
This will be a wake-up call for anyone who thought it was just a bad dream, and should act as a further impetus to work harder in our fight to those who have been working behind the scenes.
We will post the full details of the application when we have them.

Following the public at St Margaret's Church, it's clear that not all residents are aware of the information which has been made available about the proposals.
 
Here is a report from the Government's Department for Energy and Climate Change in response to Blythe Park Power's initial scoping report.
And here are several pages of response from the Environment Agency with their views on the proposals as they stand.
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A small taste of the sort of problems that Cresswell might face should Blythe Park Power's plans for the power station go ahead were shown over the past couple of days.
Anyone driving through the village will have noticed a trail of mud from the industrial park entry, over the crossing and up the hill.
 

We've now created some posters to flag up the next meeting of the residents against the power station.
Put them up and show that you don't want Blythe Park Power to go ahead with their plans.
 
 
SAY NO!