Take Action - send that email to Angela Rayner!

Thank you everyone again for your FANTASTIC support, We are growing in numbers and  now is the time to take action. New secretary of State Angela Rayner could have final sign off on this, so it's crucial we educate her with some facts. Please include the following wording somewhere in your email, as this shows that due process was not followed, as well as hi lighting the importance of why Epping Forest needs greater protection than what it has at the moment. Which despite some letters after it's name, means nothing!

Please cut and paste the below into your email, as the wording is important.

Mention NO Environmental Impact Assessment has been done on any of the planning applications re Alandale Scaffolding Site, Loughton.

Planning Application EPF/0388/26 was objected to by local councillors, local town council, EFDC urban design, EFDC conservation and Essex County Council landscape teams and was required to have further public scrutiny and to go before the planning committee. Due to interference from the Government, letter from Lord Stockwood urging EFDC to approve, the planning committee was bypassed and this was approved under officer’s delegated authority.

Natural England rely on information regarding protected specie in the Forest from Local Planning Authority, who are obliged to ensure that protected specie are fully considered and that ecological surveys are carried out where appropriate. This was not done. Specialist environmental and ecological advice should have been sought when determining environmental impacts by development.

Information from the Corporation of London survey 2025:

A rare fungus was discovered in Epping forest. Never seen before in the UK and ONLY found in Epping Forest.

A Spring tail was recorded for the first time in Britain in Epping Forest.

Crane Fly Ctenophora was confirmed for the FIRST time in the Forest.

The Crane fly, False Click Beetles and Stilt Legged Fly are all listed as Rare/ Threatened in the JNCC red data books. Red lists are GLOBALLY recognised way of identifying the threat to EXTINCTION of specie.

The ONLY benefits listed for these Data Centres are jobs and economic. The job figures could not be corroborated by Nscale and no scrutiny was done by the LPA or planning officer regarding the figures provided. Due diligence shows there will be maybe 10% of the jobs quoted, if that. The local economy will not benefit at all, and again no scrutiny was done by either the LPA or the planning officer regarding the true benefit to local people economically. The list of material harm to local people is numerous. Less water, higher electric bills, air, noise, heat and light pollution.

I thank you all in advance for your continued support. 

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