Monday 20 July 2009
Pinewood bringing jobs to green belt
We are recruiting for a Breakfast Team Leader for our staff restaurant at Pinewood Studios. Regular shift will be 5.30am to 3pm, Monday to Friday. Pay rate is £7.00per hour.
Duties:
Canteen setup and readying the Canteen for breakfast at 6.30am
Till operation & cash control
Staff check in and allocation of duties
Ensure all food and beverages are being served to a high standard
Overseeing the Canteen operation
Own transport necessary. Site website - www.couturepinewood.com
Importance of green belt : pinewood
Ever since the 1930s, the policy of ‘green belt’ – rural, green land that has been designated as protected from outside development – has been preventing urban sprawl from encroaching into the countryside and protecting the environment. But just as bringing in planning and development legislation to protect green belt land was a long and controversial process back then, so too has the ongoing battle between developers and environmentalists over these green belt areas.
Where Is The Green Belt?
Despite the headline stories of green belt land being rescinded by the hectare every day, there is still more green belt land in the UK that you might realise. Latest estimates suggest that 13% of land in England is part of one of 14 green belt areas, including the Metropolitan green belt around London, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, the West Midlands and Tyne and Wear. Scotland has seven green belts and Wales has one green belt, between Cardiff and Newport. Northern Ireland has a massive 30 separate areas of green belt land.
How Is Green Belt Land Protected?
There are specific planning and development policies in place to protect green belt land, keeping it for sustainable and green uses and making it difficult for the land to be used counterproductively. If a developer wishes to build or use a piece of green belt land, they need to prove to the local authority that the development has special circumstances where the advantages of building it outweigh the continued protection of the land.
Why Is Green Belt Land Under Threat?
In a word: space. As the UK population continues to rise, the demand for land and housing increases too. Green belt land, as yet undeveloped and often surrounding built-up and in demand areas, is prime development fodder. Developers and house builders argue that some green belt areas are historical legacies rather than areas of special interest or rural, environmental value and should be given up for more practical use. Following the government’s ambitious plans to build three million new homes by 2020, in order to solve the country’s housing shortage, it has been suggested that two million of those homes would need to be built on green belt land.
Green Belt Land: The Supporters
Many environmentalists support the continued protection of the green belt. According to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), over 1,100 hectares of green belt have been lost every year since 1997, and over 45,000 homes have been built on green belt land – the size of the City of Bath – since 1997.
According to Paul Miner, a senior planning campaigner for CPRE:
”I am sure that Ministers genuinely want to safeguard our green belt for future generations. But in reality the green belt is being seriously eroded. Too much development has already been permitted, and some Government Inspectors appear to be interpreting green belt policy in their own way. This is making a mockery of the permanence which green belts are supposed to have.”
The Future Of The Green Belt
So far, the planning and development restrictions of the green belt remain in tact, and the government has not called for analysis or any great rethink of the green belt, despite calls from developers and others. But the land and environment still remains under threat, and a weakening housing market means extra pressure from house builders is expected. That means that the countryside, wildlife and plant life that thrive freely in these areas are constantly at risk.
However the level of support for protecting the green belt is ever strong, demonstrated by the sheer number of protests that take place at a local level in order to protect it – recent protests in Surrey and Oxfordshire very much keep the environmental ethos of green belt land alive and collective pressure from members of the public has successfully blocked plans to encroach upon it.
Where Is The Green Belt?
Despite the headline stories of green belt land being rescinded by the hectare every day, there is still more green belt land in the UK that you might realise. Latest estimates suggest that 13% of land in England is part of one of 14 green belt areas, including the Metropolitan green belt around London, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, the West Midlands and Tyne and Wear. Scotland has seven green belts and Wales has one green belt, between Cardiff and Newport. Northern Ireland has a massive 30 separate areas of green belt land.
How Is Green Belt Land Protected?
There are specific planning and development policies in place to protect green belt land, keeping it for sustainable and green uses and making it difficult for the land to be used counterproductively. If a developer wishes to build or use a piece of green belt land, they need to prove to the local authority that the development has special circumstances where the advantages of building it outweigh the continued protection of the land.
Why Is Green Belt Land Under Threat?
In a word: space. As the UK population continues to rise, the demand for land and housing increases too. Green belt land, as yet undeveloped and often surrounding built-up and in demand areas, is prime development fodder. Developers and house builders argue that some green belt areas are historical legacies rather than areas of special interest or rural, environmental value and should be given up for more practical use. Following the government’s ambitious plans to build three million new homes by 2020, in order to solve the country’s housing shortage, it has been suggested that two million of those homes would need to be built on green belt land.
Green Belt Land: The Supporters
Many environmentalists support the continued protection of the green belt. According to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), over 1,100 hectares of green belt have been lost every year since 1997, and over 45,000 homes have been built on green belt land – the size of the City of Bath – since 1997.
According to Paul Miner, a senior planning campaigner for CPRE:
”I am sure that Ministers genuinely want to safeguard our green belt for future generations. But in reality the green belt is being seriously eroded. Too much development has already been permitted, and some Government Inspectors appear to be interpreting green belt policy in their own way. This is making a mockery of the permanence which green belts are supposed to have.”
The Future Of The Green Belt
So far, the planning and development restrictions of the green belt remain in tact, and the government has not called for analysis or any great rethink of the green belt, despite calls from developers and others. But the land and environment still remains under threat, and a weakening housing market means extra pressure from house builders is expected. That means that the countryside, wildlife and plant life that thrive freely in these areas are constantly at risk.
However the level of support for protecting the green belt is ever strong, demonstrated by the sheer number of protests that take place at a local level in order to protect it – recent protests in Surrey and Oxfordshire very much keep the environmental ethos of green belt land alive and collective pressure from members of the public has successfully blocked plans to encroach upon it.
Even visitors are confused by Pinewood
By Peter Biskind
It’s nine in the morning, and I am in a cab threading its way through a tangle of narrow country lanes toward Pinewood Studios, in Iver Heath, about 20 miles west of London, where I am to see Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, or, as it is more popularly known, “Heath Ledger’s last movie.” As everyone who hasn’t been hiding under a rock is well aware, Ledger died in January 2008, after accidentally taking a toxic combination of prescription drugs, while Doctor Parnassus was still in production. After a mad scramble to pick up the pieces, the film was finished with a little help from his friends Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
Built in 1935 on the grounds of a historic country home, Heatherden Hall, Pinewood is a storied production facility that has hosted a sparkling array of pictures, from early Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean to the James Bond series, not to mention recent blockbusters such as The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Dark Knight (2008). But I’ve never had the pleasure and am eager to see the studio.
As the hedgerows bounce past, I glimpse solitary cows grazing in absurdly green meadows, and look in vain for the kind of garish movie billboards that herald arrival at a Hollywood lot. There are none, not even a signpost, and just as I begin to suspect that I’m being taken for a different kind of ride than I anticipated, we heave to at the front gate, a modern affair of steel girders and glass that replaced an old, Tudor-style gatehouse when the studio changed hands, in 2001.
Behind the gate lies the back lot, looking like any other back lot, save for the magnificent Victorian gardens that surround it.
Villagers vow to fight Project Pinewood
Villagers vow to fight Project Pinewood
Posted by Jack Abell on Jul 8, 09 11:17 AM in Gerrards Cross News
HUNDREDS of people flocked to a public meeting this week to make their feelings known about the controversial Project Pinewood development.
At a meeting held in Iver Heath Village Hall on Monday night, nearly 400 people went along to discuss the best ways to oppose the plans.
Attendance at the meeting was so high that a sound system had to be set up outside because the hall was filled to capacity.
At the beginning of June, Pinewood Studios submitted a planning application to South Bucks District Council (SBDC), which, if accepted, would see a large number of permanent film sets resembling areas such as Paris, New York and Amsterdam being built on Green Belt in Iver Heath.
As well as this, there are separate applications to change the road system in the area at the Five Points roundabout and in Seven Hills Road, to allow for the increase in traffic the development would bring.
Julian Wilson, chairman of Iver Parish Council, told the crowd: "This application would double the population of Iver Heath, and effectively add 2,000 extra cars every day. Even with the proposed changes to the road systems, the village and the surrounding area quite simply could not handle this.
"This development would add 3,315 people to the area, but there is no answer to where children are going to go to school. The Chalfonts Community College is full, as is Burnham Grammar and Burnham Upper. Where are they going to go?"
The crowd was urged not to be silent about their feelings towards the plan, and to make their feelings known as much as possible.
Mr Wilson added: "I would expect that this plan will be turned down by SBDC, but there will then be an appeal which will go to the Secretary of State, but as to what will happen then I couldn't say.
"We need to fight this every step of the way. You should start by writing to the district and county councils, to MP Dominic Grieve and to the papers, and even if and when SBDC turn down the application, we should still not stop, because Pinewood will keep trying. The only way to have an effect is to make our opposition clear."
Posted by Jack Abell on Jul 8, 09 11:17 AM in Gerrards Cross News
HUNDREDS of people flocked to a public meeting this week to make their feelings known about the controversial Project Pinewood development.
At a meeting held in Iver Heath Village Hall on Monday night, nearly 400 people went along to discuss the best ways to oppose the plans.
Attendance at the meeting was so high that a sound system had to be set up outside because the hall was filled to capacity.
At the beginning of June, Pinewood Studios submitted a planning application to South Bucks District Council (SBDC), which, if accepted, would see a large number of permanent film sets resembling areas such as Paris, New York and Amsterdam being built on Green Belt in Iver Heath.
As well as this, there are separate applications to change the road system in the area at the Five Points roundabout and in Seven Hills Road, to allow for the increase in traffic the development would bring.
Julian Wilson, chairman of Iver Parish Council, told the crowd: "This application would double the population of Iver Heath, and effectively add 2,000 extra cars every day. Even with the proposed changes to the road systems, the village and the surrounding area quite simply could not handle this.
"This development would add 3,315 people to the area, but there is no answer to where children are going to go to school. The Chalfonts Community College is full, as is Burnham Grammar and Burnham Upper. Where are they going to go?"
The crowd was urged not to be silent about their feelings towards the plan, and to make their feelings known as much as possible.
Mr Wilson added: "I would expect that this plan will be turned down by SBDC, but there will then be an appeal which will go to the Secretary of State, but as to what will happen then I couldn't say.
"We need to fight this every step of the way. You should start by writing to the district and county councils, to MP Dominic Grieve and to the papers, and even if and when SBDC turn down the application, we should still not stop, because Pinewood will keep trying. The only way to have an effect is to make our opposition clear."
Pinewood Green Belt Destruction
Mr Wilson added: "I would expect that this plan will be turned down by SBDC, but there will then be an appeal which will go to the Secretary of State, but as to what will happen then I couldn't say.
http://gerrardscross.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/07/villagers-vow-to-fight-project.html
http://gerrardscross.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/07/villagers-vow-to-fight-project.html
Pinewood Green Belt Destruction
Mr Wilson added: "I would expect that this plan will be turned down by SBDC, but there will then be an appeal which will go to the Secretary of State, but as to what will happen then I couldn't say.
http://gerrardscross.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/07/villagers-vow-to-fight-project.html
http://gerrardscross.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/07/villagers-vow-to-fight-project.html
Green belt destruction. Pinewwod
Green belt destruction. Pinewwod sets it's sights on destroying British green belt by creating housing company.
Green belt destruction
Green belt destruction
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