Dibden Bay project "likely to be re-visited"
News - February 9, 2010
A new attempt to develop a container handling facility Dibden Bay on the osuth coast of the UK is “inevitable”, say local council chiefs.
According to a recent report in the Southern evening Echo, they issued their "warning" after criticising the Government’s new policy statement on the future of UK ports, saying it failed to protect the environmentally sensitive site.
The newly-formed Infrastructure Planning Commission will be guided by the statement if Associated British Ports (ABP) submits another proposal to develop Dibden Bay.
Critics say the document demands a market-led approach to port expansion instead of calling for new docks to be built in the least damaging places.
A report to New Forest District Council’s ruling Cabinet said: “The statement does not indicate the locations at which further port capacity could be provided. This is to be determined through competition ‘subject to developers satisfying decision-makers that the likely impacts of any proposed development have been addressed. This provides an inadequate basis for the commission to properly determine proposals."
“The statement should be clearer about the appropriate locations for major port development, having regard to international designations, impacts on local communities and other relevant considerations.”
Councillors stressed the need for proper safeguards, saying it said it was “inevitable” that ABP would submit another application.
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