Protest meeting on 'green belt factory' bid

RESIDENTS in Beighton campaigning against plans by Network Rail to build a new engineering centre are holding a public meeting next week.

The Stop Them In Their Tracks campaign hopes to build opposition to plans for a Nation Engineering Centre, on land between Woodhouse, Swallownest and Beighton.

Protesters say the plans for the centre will result in the loss of green belt land and will see a vast factory on their doorstop bringing noise and pollution.

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Campaigners say the plan will affect children and their homes, and that house prices could drop as a result.

Campaign organiser Sylvia Sellers said: "Do you want to see a large factory complex running the full length of the valley, topped with seven chimneys belching out who knows what along with more traffic congestion, noise pollution and everything else that industrial encroachment brings with it, built on our last strip of green belt?"

Network Rail say the centre would be built on brownfield land, which is surrounded by greenfield.

They had hoped it would bring highly-skilled jobs to the area.

Local MP Clive Betts also supports the plan.

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The public meeting will be held on Monday at Woodhouse Mill Working Men's Club at 7.30pm, next to the Jet petrol station, on Retford Road.

Campaigners have set up a website – www.stopthem.co.uk – in a bid to spread opposition.