SANDHOE PARISH COUNCIL

www.sandhoe.info

Chairman to the Council  Robert Mcfarlane

Clerk to the Council        Bill Grigg

 

“Haddrigg”

9 The Riggs

Corbridge

Northumberland

NE45 5JX

Tel:  01434 634397

Email:griggbill@live.co.uk

 

 

Egger UK Ltd Liaison Working Group

 

Thursday 22nd October 2009

 

Present

John Pennie (Liaison Group Chairman), Robert Macfarlane (Chairman Sandhoe Parish Council), Bill Grigg (Clerk to Sandhoe Parish Council), Egger Staff - Matthias Veile (Director of Works Manager), Paul Turner (Factory Manager) and Andrew Billings (Construction Manager).

 

Apologies

Simon Dotlinger (Production and Technical Director) and Jean Fearon (Northumberland County Council)

 

Notes

 

1          The Liaison Working Group’s key contact will be Matthias Veile (Director of Works Manager), who is now in control locally.  He encourages the parishioners to phone the Gatehouse if there is sudden and unacceptable noise out of hours.


2          The demolition phases of the old works are complete.


3          Recycling buildings have been refurbished


4          There is close liaison with Nick Barrett at present re remedying of excessive noise emission from the newly installed machinery.  Sound proofing measures are being urgently explored.   Parishioners should feel free to contact NB for his comments.


5          It was interesting to learn that the national supply of wood chips has reduced very drastically.   In part this is because biofuels plants are buying up what used to be almost freely available. Prices are much higher. This means Egger is having to spend a lot of extra time chipping slab wood at site.  This could be noisy.


6          There is no likelihood of 24 hour working for the foreseeable future.

 


John Pennie