Stodmarsh

Water UK’s Storm Overflows Plan: A 25-Year Delay in England’s Sewage Scandal

March 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Water UK’s National Storm Overflows Plan for England was launched with the kind of self-congratulation you usually hear just before someone asks you to be patient. It was [...]

Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works

November 30, 2024 // 7 Comments

Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]

Otterpool Park Update: First house for sale 1 Sept 2025

November 19, 2022 // 4 Comments

Andy Jarrett (pictured) the Managing Director of Otterpool Park LLP, has stated on the record, the date of the first house for sale at Otterpool Park development will be the [...]

Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”

October 11, 2022 // 4 Comments

“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]

1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]

Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year

July 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Update: No new Canterbury Waste Water Treatment plant until 2030.

May 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

In a stark admission made by Simon Thomas head of Canterbury City Council’s planning department, in relation to the Stodmarsh Nutrient Neutrality issue; has said: The [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Site had visit from No 10’s Cabinet Secretary

January 11, 2022 // 2 Comments

There have been further developments at Otterpool Park where the council wish to build up to 10,000 homes at a cost of £2.9bn, making a conservative profit of £193m. [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent

November 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update

September 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Proposals to lift moratorium on development will be presented to government in the next few weeks

August 17, 2021 // 5 Comments

Many people are worried and concerned about development in our district and beyond, but is their concern justified? In 2017 the University of Sheffield released maps showing [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

The Stodmarsh moratorium holding up 40,000 homes across East Kent

July 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

It will take “a very large financial number” to fix the Stodmarsh phosporus & nitrogen issue, say Natural England in a meeting held on Wednesday 2nd December, [...]

Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.

April 21, 2021 // 5 Comments

Across the Garden of England hundreds of landfill sites containing dangerous, hazardous and toxic waste, are according to a remediation consultant of 35 years, “time [...]

Stodmarsh water quality issue unresolved and puts handbrake on housing development in East Kent.

March 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

Back in July 2020 Natural England issued advice to Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Maidstone and Thanet Councils under the catchy title of – [...]

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