Stop Cuadrilla returning to Balcombe! Object to HGVs carrying harmful chemicals within a metre of our school! Object to health risks from the planned flare. The flare top is below the height of the village and only 350m from the closest homes! Object online, on West Sussex County Council’s website: http://buildings.westsussex.gov.uk/ePlanningOPS/loadRepresentation.do?pprAplId=2178 Give your name, address and email, then comment. Select ‘Object' in the final drop-down box before you submit your objection - and note the reference number of the application WSCC/040/17/BA (Cuadrilla flow-testing at Lower Stumble Balcombe). Otherwise your objection will not count. Or email: planning.applications@westsussex.gov.uk, Object to the risks posed by acidisation to geology and water. Object to this flow-test, because if it is successful it could be the start of the industrialisation of Balcombe and its surrounds - extending into a very large area. Objections must be in by Thursday 30th November, so please don't delay! "No long-term study has been done anywhere in the world on the health effects of chronic exposure of human populations to the emissions from gas/oil extraction. Hence, the long-term risk is not known. However, it is known that extended exposure to the radioactive and chemical emissions typically associated with gas/oil operations poses a serious mortality and morbidity risk. The risk to residents living within a few hundred metres of a well pad may be very significant." Professor Lawrence Dunne (expert in chemical physics) The outdoor learning areas of the school are separated from the road by a pavement's width, they already smell the fumes in class of passing lorries. Traffic fumes are known to cause short and long-term health problems. FOE have made it easy here: https://act.foe.co.uk/act/keep-cuadrilla-out-balcombe Or read our previous update for more detail. The more individual a response the better. But just saying I object is better than nothing! Thank you from the majority in Balcombe opposed to Cuadrila