Devil in the detail - Save Graveney Marshes

The 2nd stage consultation – open for your feedback until 13 July 2018 – is based on a huge amount of information. The download page for phase two includes:

The Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR). A massive report made up of 44 separate files, 909 Megabytes, and 2,303 pages in total. You will have to navigate a Google Drive link to explore this.
- There will be many items in here that need to be reviewed. If you want to see their photomontages of the site for example have a look at Volume II B… part three shows after one year and part four shows after ten years.
The PEIR Non Technical Summary. This is a 35 page report as a 7.7MB PDF. Watch out because they have provided this as a zipped file. This should provide an overview of the PEIR, but misses out a lot.
The Consultation leaflet. This is the 8 page foldout A5 leaflet you may have had through the door. It has a map of the new, expanded, red line boundary.
The Site Plan. A simple A3 PDF which shows the new proposed boundary of the site. (The PEIR Non Technical Summary has two A3 maps which are better with more detail).
A link to a Feedback Form which goes to an online service. You may have received the paper version of this in the post recently with the Consultation Leaflet.

Capture — A huge file in Google is not easy to navigate

We’ve repeatedly pointed out that the developer’s event materials and ‘non-technical’ summaries leave a lot of important information out.

They’ve also made it difficult to read online unless you are very technical. For instance, the “Volume IIA – Figures.pdf” report, which has 64 figures in it, is 166MB in size and has been provided in a Google Drive folder.

Google Drive is a technology that will be unfamiliar to many, and downloading 166MB is not easy if you don’t have the latest technology and a good internet connection.

Considering the challenges faced by rural populations, this type of information provision is woeful.

Here are 46 snippets of what that Figures report shows. If you have a question arising from this, the answer should be in the “Volume I chapters” report. If you get stuck, please comment and we’ll try to help, or ask the developers directly via their contact info.