Series[UMA-SRE-20170074] MUSIC, ESSEX, ENVIRONMENTAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017007400039Scope and ContentContains: Correspondence, campaign and research material on the expansion of Stansted Airport with a proposed second runway and related development along the Stansted / M11 corridor. The Uttlesford District Council (UDC) opposed the new runways, holding the Stansted Referendum in 2002. Includes London-Stansted-Cambridge Sub-Regional Study Project Brief for Consultants February 2001; Stop Stansted Expansion Group (SSE) campaign material; Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) press releases (2003); two issues of Plane Talk August 2005 and August 2006. Letters critical of Greer for not being an active opponent of the expansion, some in response to Greer articles; photocopy of letter by Greer 'Why do opponents need to insult me?' HertEssex News, 22/1/2004; The Reporter: your local newspaper serving Saffron Walden, Stansted and Sawston, 29/1/2004; press clipping, unsourced, of letters to the editor under heading 'Germaine's planes come home to roost' nd. Correspondents: Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Cliff Bishop; Uttlesford District Council (referendum paper); Stop Stansted Expansion Group (SSE) (Christmas card with message "How you can condone the rape of Nth Essex I cannot imagine"). Subjects: Essex, England; Land use, rural; Stansted airport; JournalismAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0074 Unit 0003
