OBJECT TODAY – ACT BY 30th OCTOBER

• Russell Group have resurrected their zombie plans for an unwanted dirty-diesel rail hub running through the heart of Motherwell.
• The plans remain opposed by Scottish Labour, SNP and Scottish Greens.
• The planning application will be heard by the full council before Christmas. Act Now !
• Over 600 previous objections still apply but we need more from across Motherwell.
• Encourage your friends, family and neighbours from across Motherwell to lodge a formal objection by 30th October.
• Object online or by email esplanning@northlan.gov.uk
• Contact your councillors, MSPs and MP Support the Ravenscraig fighting fund

• Contact your councillors at https://mars.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/egenda/public/main.pl?op=ListCurrentMembers
• Register objections (one per person) by emailing esplanning@northlan.gov.uk or online at  https://eplanning.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QP2RMGBAMWL00&activeTab=summary&fbclid=IwAR17vA7ZoPJWLsPw6SHhMkBjzeE-1383Z8HcZDBinjFkRD0Q4Q7riIsgeUs
• Support the Community Fighting Fund by donating at https://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/rcag

NOTES TO EDITORS:

• Proposals incompatible with Development Plan, Local Plan, National Planning Frameworks 3 & 4, and the Ravenscraig masterplan.
• The character of a new area changed – forever.
• 1,000 new build and affordable 2, 3 and 4 bedroom houses for local families – denied.
• £1.9m of annual council tax lost – enough to fund 72 new teachers; 80 home care workers; re-open Kilbowie and restore Christmas lights.
• Pollution free new primary schools with safe routes to school – impossible.
• 1,000 new homes with local spend in local stores – lost.
• 800 dirty diesel HGV lorry movements every day (1 every 100 seconds) trundling past our homes in phase one alone.
• Incompatible with Scotland’s recently adopted UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Displacing existing North Lanarkshire jobs and competing against existing rail freight sites.
• More sustainable sites for rail freight that don’t block Ravenscraig regeneration – available. 
• Noise, light and air pollution, not to mention commercial vehicles resting up on local streets.
• Huge local environmental, biodiversity, ecological impact & loss of ancient woodland.
• Years of construction from 8am – 7pm.
• Some say it’s a deal done behind closed doors. 
• It doesn’t have to be that way.  
• A Scottish Government ‘National Development’ Regeneration Priority.
• Plans opposed by SNP, Scottish Labour and Scottish Greens.
• Lets access the £50m Vacant & Derelict Land Fund, not leave regeneration to a flawed freightliner solution that blights Ravenscraig and blocks out more sustainable investment solutions.
• It’s time for the new community Lanarkshire was promised, building back better from the pandemic, not massive industrial buildings at any cost to communities.
• Register your objections (individually – one per person) now by emailing esplanning@northlan.gov.uk or online athttps://eplanning.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QP2RMGBAMWL00&activeTab=summary&fbclid=IwAR17vA7ZoPJWLsPw6SHhMkBjzeE-1383Z8HcZDBinjFkRD0Q4Q7riIsgeUs
• Contact your councillors.