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Either write your own personal message, or use this text you might want to copy, paste and send to make clear your opposition to the proposed landing station in Brawdy Business Park, Pembrokeshire:
Hello,
I am writing to register my objection as an individual to 25/0127/PA, the planning application for a subsea cable landing station in Brawdy Business Park (Brawdy Business Park, Pembrokeshire SA62 6NP).
I am concerned that it would comprise a large, antisocial development with razor wire fencing and security guards, close to a child special needs education facility in the Park, and would both take up precious space otherwise required for increasing demand from legitimate local businesses without benefiting the community, and also potentially deterring future businesses from using the site.
Further, however, I would like to draw your attention to five potential reasons why the planning application may be being used by a potentially involved Ministry of Defence in an undisclosed way as a means of separating out a planning element that should properly be included in a planning application for DARC radar, a practice which has been ruled against in British courts.
1. Local campaigners have learned from telecommunications engineers at Brawdy Business Park that the site maintains direct cable network links with Cawdor Barracks, which the Park uses to provide high-quality internet access to businesses there.
2. The requirements of military information security would clearly dictate that DARC would need to be connected to a non-internet global physical cable network for necessary operational communications with global military sites.
3. The planning application fails in its primary purpose of disclosing any reason for the development, omitting any earlier claim made by contractors in public communications that a major cable from Ireland was required for merely providing internet access to a small business park that already has it. The planning application states only that the station is for ‘coordination with multiple global locations.’
4. The station would be situated metres from Cawdor Barracks, in full view of its front gate, surrounded by high-security razor wire perimeter fencing and staffed with security guards, which seems a clearly inappropriate use case for a supposedly purely civilian installation, and seems comparable to nothing similar to it. It stands in contrast, in fact, to the lack of any security measures at all in the similarly proposed landing station near Roch, which would appear to demonstrate that installations that are genuinely of this type do not require any such escalated security enhancements at all.
5. The MOD, if benefitting from the development in any way, retains the legal right under (for example) national security provisions in the Procurement Act 2023 (formerly DSPCR) to compel companies involved not to disclose its involvement, which could be used to obscure its role from Pembrokeshire County Council and enable it to engage in an illegitimate separation of planning elements from the DARC proposal. This practice is further suspected by local residents in relation to the Newgale bypass road (which would very likely materially benefit DARC) and the potentially required major overground or underground power upgrades discussed on record with PCNPA.
I will be closely observing the behaviour of not just the MOD, but all political representatives making decisions upon what seems to me an increasingly objectionable sequence of planning events in the Brawdy area. I would strongly endorse any connected awareness campaign made by local campaigners, and would actively support its widest possible proliferation amongst Pembrokeshire residents.
Many thanks for your attention.
INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
Putting your name and address at the bottom of the email is an important step—don't forget! Wherever you're based, it's a step that's required to help determine your stake in the outcome of the planning application.
COPY THE EMAILS
Next up, it's time to copy the emails below (just as you see them), and paste them straight into your email client's CC field:
planning.support.team@pembrokeshire.gov.uk, henry.tufnell.mp@parliament.uk, ben.lake.mp@parliament.uk, eluned.morgan@senedd.wales, joyce.watson@senedd.wales, paul.davies@senedd.wales, samuel.kurtz@senedd.wales, cefin.campbell@senedd.wales, jane.dodds@senedd.wales, keir.starmer.mp@parliament.uk, john.healey.mp@parliament.uk, jo.stevens.mp@parliament.uk, maria.eagle.mp@parliament.uk, david.lammy.mp@parliament.uk, coopery@parliament.uk, steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk, rebecca.evans@senedd.wales, huw.irranca-davies@senedd.wales, jayne.bryant@senedd.wales, campaigntracker@parcagainstdarc.com
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I just emailed the Pembrokeshire Parks and political representatives to object to the (potentially DARC radar-related) Brawdy Business Park subsea landing cable station proposal—it was super quick and easy!
I invite you to join me in a round of emails too, by visiting PARC’s dedicated emailing page:
www.parcagainstdarc.com/landing-station
Thanks so much!
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