Greenbelt Under Threat: North Ockendon Residents Warn of Years of Disruption.

Havering’s green belt is facing an unprecedented wave of pressure, not just in one corner of the borough but across sites stretching from Noak Hill to Rainham and North Ockendon. Land once considered sacrosanct has found itself vulnerable, with long-held protections weakened and development interest escalating rapidly. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than along Fenn Lane, where a major data centre has been proposed on farmland.

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‘The leader Of The Council Speaks Of Protecting Our Green Spaces -Yet He Is Going To Actively Destroy 300 Acres Of Greenbelt Land If Plans For The Data Centre Go Ahead.’

This is land that is farmed at present, it has a wide variety of wildlife, and it is green and peaceful. In its place would rear up a dozen warehouse-style buildings, each one 21 metres high and surrounded by security fencing.  Constructing the site would involve dozens of lorries and masses of construction equipment, creating noise, pollution and upheaval for nearly 10 years!’

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Exclusive: North Ockendon residents hit out at Havering Council over their ‘staggering hypocrisy’ over greenbelt land.

Residents living in North Ockendon near the proposed Data Centre site, have hit out at Havering Council over their ‘staggering hypocrisy’ with councillors praising their new village green spaces across the borough, yet allowing a huge Data Centre to be built on greenbelt land.

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Residents’ Association councillors had promised a five-year plan that they would protect the green belt. Have they abandoned this promise to build a data centre?

North Ockendon residents have been asking questions about the proposed data centre for so long, it was hoped that finally coming face-to-face with the Leader and Officers might provide some answers. 

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Data Centres are enormous eyesores, but is it time Havering take the lead in tackling the climate crisis as creatively as possible?

Data Centres are enormous, an eyesore, they need a lot of power to run, and a lot of power to cool. To add insult to injury, this one is proposed to be built in Greenbelt land – land that acts as a geographic boarder and is supposed to stay green and untouched by development.

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Special Report:’It’s all about the money’-Residents hit back at Havering Council over Data Centre build on Greenbelt land.

This is the area Havering Council have agreed to place a data centre that will comprise of 84 buildings, large metal fencing, over 9,000 workers to construct it and could take ten years to build.

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Residents unite to show total opposition to the building of a Data Centre on Green Belt land.

The impact on the site, if it is built, would also be unacceptable: instead of farmland, there will be a large number of warehouse-sized buildings, containing banks of computers, batteries, cooling systems, backup power sources, and more equipment.

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Local residents huge concerns over Data Centre planning application and the costly environmental impact it will have on the community.

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE)has said it is ‘appalled’ that the council is looking on this scheme favourably. We believe other environmental groups will agree that it is not acceptable. 

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