[hisimp-chat] Nasty odours- your help please: fao Barbara

[Barbara & Brian]

No problem Siobhan, will pop  one through your letter box later this evening.  Have not got them stored on my PC so far, as I copied them from Cllr.Mason.

Thanks for your help. 

Barbara
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Siobhan Mellon 
  To: Chat about Histon and Impington 
  Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [hisimp-chat] Nasty odours- your help please: fao Barbara


  Hi Barbara

  I'm happy to note down times of smell and send off to SCDC.  Could you attach a form if you have it electronically, or post one in our letterbox at 9 Merton Road.  Thanks

  Siobhan (Mellon)
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Barbara & Brian 
    To: hisimp-chat at the-hug.net 
    Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:24 PM
    Subject: [hisimp-chat] Nasty odours- your help please


                                              13th October 2008

    Hello Everyone,

    Many of you will have experienced the very unpleasant odours which have affected parts of Histon & Impington over the last few months, certainly since June 2008, possibly before then.  This smell can only be described as sewage, and is extremely obnoxious and nauseating at times.

    The main areas that have been affected by this smell are:-

    New School Rd, Home Close, Merton Rd, Shirley Rd, Somerset Rd and Manor Park (all in Histon).   Other roads may also have been affected, but these are the only ones I am aware of.

    This would indicate that the smell is possibly originating from Premier Foods, (the old Chivers site). 

    Myself and others have been in communication with SCDC environmental dept about this, since early July.   SCDC did respond with a very lengthy, technical explanation on 9th July, but here we are some three months on, and the smell is persisting.
    District Councillor Mike Mason has also been "on the case" on behalf of us all, working very hard and is continuing to do so, but we do not seem to be getting anywhere so far.

    SCDC Environmental health dept. do require help from us Histon/Impington residents, which is to monitor the smell, taking note of dates, times etc, when the smell is at its worst, weather conditions & wind direction.  I have some copies of the forms provided by South Cambs. Environment dept.

      Brian Heffernan or Nick Atkins at South Cambs. District Council, Environmental Health, Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6EA   are the gentlemen who have been dealing with the situation.

    Recently I've been made aware that someone who lives in New School Rd is trying to get this information from the residents of that road, by dropping notes through letter boxes, but I don't know who that person is.( is it you ? if so please get in touch.)  We all need to get together, as there is "strength in numbers", as the saying goes.   The more of us who complain to SCDC, and provide the information they require, the more chance of getting the problem solved.     We don't want legal action taken, we just want the nasty smells to stop  please, and do not want to spend another Summer like this last one, having to go inside and shut all doors and windows when we should be outside enjoying our gardens etc!    

    Currently our villages do have a broken sewage pipe which is being dealt with by the water company, which is why the tankers are working continuously, keeping sewage levels down, however, I am informed that this is not connected to the unpleasant odours we have/are suffering during the last few months.   I await any comments please, we need your help !!  Thanks. 

    regards,


    Barbara  (Kempton)
    Merton Road.


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