NO TO EAST HAVERING DATA CENTRE
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​Impacts on Residents of Havering

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• Impacts will stretch across Havering, Thurrock and Brentwood, beyond North Ockendon.

• 10-12 years of construction is forecast.

• Flooding – it’s fenland.

• Roads and transport disruption and congestion expected for years with HGVs congesting narrow rural lanes and affecting nearby routes - these are unsuitable narrow country lanes, in quiet residential areas.

• Increased pollution, air pollution, noise pollution and increased dust and particles.

• Property prices will reduce (10% already lost east of St Mary’s Lane to BESS) with longer lead times to sell, resulting in further price reductions and impacts on your equity and inheritance.

• Rental prices - If thousands of construction workers are required to lodge close by, this may increase the rental prices and locals may be pushed out of the market.

• Mental health impacts.

• May coincide with major infrastructure work of the Lower Thames Crossing, compounding the above.
  
  
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And after construction?

• Water

  • ​supply used by data centres adversely affects local supply whether they used closed-loop or not.

  • Increased utility bills - proven in other locations.

• Electricity

  • power hungry 600mw data will affect local electricity supply.​

  • increased utility bills .

• Flooding – it’s still fenland - concrete and 18 large buildings and it's surrounding infrastructure will not provide sufficient run off to the River Mardyke.

• Constant hum 24/7 - they call it the data centre hum, and very expensive to retrofit once built, ie no-one will want to undertake it.

• Loss of agricultural land  which produces various crops year after year and contributes to our domestic food security.

• Further destruction on further Green Belt, opening up a precedent for further commercial developments?

• Quality of life?

  • We are told there will be an ecopark, the public can enjoy, while walking around the perimeter of high security fences, and a vertical farming project, where avocados and cucumbers can be vertically grown.

  • Do the public want or need an Eco Park? They've not been consulted.

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