VICTORY IN REDDISH!!!!

In the last Loombreaker, we reported on the local campaign against Reddish Golf Club's plans to tip waste in Reddish Vale. The club has a planning permission dating from 1965, and they stood to make £15-30,000 contracting the tipping out. Some tipping was done by a dodgy contractor years ago, and toxins are thought to be still present as a result. They proposed to tip 100,000 tons of material, meaning 5000 lorries over 2 years or more. The site can only be reached via Reddish Vale Rd and residents, councillors and even local MP Andrew Bennett warned it would be a ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER for a Stockport Beauty Spot if they did not stop this horrendous plan, not to mention the lorries and nuisance caused to local residents, several schools, a nursery and a youth club and in addition, the visitors to the Vale - a green belt site.

At a public meeting held in July, about 80 people on a wet Friday night told the two people from the golf club what would happen if they went ahead with the plans . They were also told that they had not cleaned the site up after unknown materials were tipped back in the 1960s. It was made clear there would be objections to any Waste Disposal Licence, and that people would be contacting the Environment Agency. This put the wind up them, as this had been done before, making them look exceedingly dodgy for not informing the E.A themselves.

Someone told them to put a metal road down on their land and play golf across it. That would cost them. Haha not so much profit now! And people told them to clean up the 60s site. Then they began to show concern about one or two activists there, and said they had to leave. Unfortunately there were no eggs, and who forgot the custard pie? Anyway, since then we have been told that they have changed their minds about tipping on the site. SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also in this month's issue - Resistance to War, McDamage, Nazis Out, Guerrilla GM Gardening, Action against MOX, Rod Coronado and more.