On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:25:33 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:24:44 -0700 (PDT), MaxB
wrote:

Residents welcome new London railway depot - not!

Same on the former Radlett aerodrome. Freight depot proposed, locals
say "nooooooooo!". Perhaps they don't want the jobs.


Perhaps they don't want the noise and the traffic, which would be
considerable. The site is Green Belt and should remain so.

Planning permission has been applied for on the basis of a "Rail
Freight Village". The government, in all its wisdom (none!) decided
that "Rail Freight Villages" should be built on Green Belt Land if
they complied with a requirement that 70% of goods handled should
either enter or leave by rail.

Many of these "Rail Freight Villages" have been built around Britain
but none of them actually complies with the 70% requirement. Several
don't even have rail services at all, so they achieve 0%. No national
monitoring has been done to evaluate the extent of compliance with the
70% figure, even though the 70% is a statutory requirement.

The very best performing of the "Rail Freight Villages" is at Daventry
in Northamptonshire, but that could only achieve 58% on the best
available figures.

So I am not 58%, nor 70%, but 100% in agreement with the people of
Radlett and London Colney, whose lives would be blighted by the
construction and operation of a sham "Rail Freight Village". It would
be, in reality, just another road freight depot with a rail connection
that might as well not be there, all in the Green Belt. No thanks.