Given rising food prices and increasing food shortages, we need to grow more food and make sure it’s affordable. So maybe using Mytholm Works for intensive urban farming, including aquaponics, would be a better use of the site than building a supermarket? This idea came up at the recent Friends of Mytholm public meeting.
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The upstairs room at Stubbing Wharf pub was full when Friends of Mytholm gathered at Sunday lunchtime to discuss the Belmont Homes and Setbray Properties proposal to build a car park, hotel and small supermarket on the Mytholm Works site, opposite the pub.
Friends of Mytholm meeting
Friends of Mytholm – a group of local residents concerned at the impact of the proposed development of the former Mytholm Works site in Hebden Bridge – invite local residents, businesses, residents of Mytholm Meadows sheltered accommodation; teachers and parents of children who attend the local primary school to a Buffet Lunch & Discussion upstairs at the Stubbing Wharf pub (wheelchair and pram access from tow path) at 12 noon, Sunday 14th October 2012. Followed by a site visit.
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Jefferson Sheard Architects graphic_Sustainable Environmental Technologies Centre
Calderdale College commissioned Jefferson Sheard Architects to design a Sustainable Environmental Technologies Centre. Building work started in 2012 and the Centre is due to open in September 2013.
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Calderdale Council has rejected a planning application for two wind turbines in a field near Heptonstall School, following quite a few objections from members of the public.
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Hebden Royd Town Council has recently adopted guidelines that it will use when considering wind turbine planning applications.
At the Hebden Royd Town Council meeting on 23 May 2012, the Council approved wind farm guidance from the Strategy and Review Committee meeting on 25 April 2012.
No wind turbines in Special Protection Area
The guidelines require the Council to refuse applications for wind turbines in the Special Protection Area of moors to the west of Hebden Bridge, and in areas where turbine construction would disturb or destroy peatcover.
A new study based on long term monitoring data about bird populations at 18 windfarm sites has come up with a mix of disturbing and reassuring information. In line with previous studies, this one found that the effect of wind farms on bird densities varies depending on the bird species.
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AxisDesign Architects in Birmingham have come up with an affordable passive house design which they think could make this energy saving home affordable to everyone because of its low cost.
How a passive house works - diagram from Wikipedia
The Woodland Trust says that the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) fails to fully recognise the importance of ancient woods and trees.
They are inviting comments on their blog.
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