I READ with interest the latest news (Echo December 6) on Hampshire's revised plans for the site in Moors Valley Country Park and the Friends of Ringwood Forest’s proposed responses.
It has always been part of the plan for Purple Haze that a (30 metres, I believe) ‘buffer zone’ be created to hide the works from the B3081, but more importantly to protect the country park from dust, noise and the smell (and view) of the subsequent waste dump.
It is with alarm and disgust that l now read that Hampshire seek to “waive” in some way these buffer zones. The reason appears rather obvious to this layman; the site is so narrow that buffers on each side must render excavation uneconomic.
Most important the removal of the buffer to the excavation site and subsequent waste dump on the country park side would, in time, be even more of a disaster for the third most visited park in the UK.
Now is the time for Hampshire and the site owners to see that the proposal is just untenable and remove it from their plans.
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