Millom Without Parish Council
19th April 21
Dear Chris and Andy,
Re: Feedback Issues and Calc Position Statement
1. Workstream 2 – Siting Process
We were pleased (reference email dated 30th March 21) to note that CDALC are now included in
2. Resident Public Meetings
As you are aware this Parish Council held two Public
•Lack of Local Support – this was pretty well a unanimous position of the residents, who were keen to express some strong emotions as to how the site was nominated.
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•No Transparency – The issue of site nomination process consumed a significant amount of the meeting time. Most residents expressing the lack of openness and transparency on such a significant project and the consequential
•Community Engagement – the concept of a “willing community” was seen as lacking credibility in light of the early siting nomination. Residents felt an immediate loss of trust in the way the
•Poor communications – some residents spoke of there attempts to correspond with RWM, using the email via the Head Office in the early set up of the GDF communications process and getting no response. Others had made contact via the new arrangements as per the Copeland Working Group and receiving a response which was more of a “template”, without addressing their issues.
Post - Residents Meeting – the Parish Council encouraged residents to write again to the Working Group and ask specific questions – to date those residents have again reported what appears to be template answers with no attempt to get to the heart of the question or more importantly “make it a personal response and build some bridges”.
To date we have had feedback that residents feel
3. CDALC Position Statement
Please note the following comments / concerns which I hope CDCALC will address prior to any submission to RWM?
CDALC Principles
Comments / Concerns
1.CDALC supports, in principle, the
•Does this principle endorse the approach of the random site nomination process?
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We also noted that this position statement relates to Copeland and can we clarify whether CALC have endorsed the position statement?
4. Webinar Feedback
A number of our Parish Councillors attended the Webinar’s and will be in touch to send their individual views on the experience.
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We would welcome further dialogue and engagement on the current progress within the GDF Working Groups. We need to maintain a more regular set of conversations on the progress of the Independent Working Group. We would welcome your views?
Yours sincerely,
David Savage
Chair – Millom Without Parish Council
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