Planners to decide on Shrewsbury incinerator
Friday 9th July 2010, 5:00PM BST.
The fate of a controversial proposal to build a £60 million incinerator on a site on the outskirts of Shrewsbury will be decided by planners at the end of this month, it emerged today.
Councillors will decide whether to allow the energy-from-waste plant to be built at Battlefield at a meeting on July 26.
It comes after the Environment Agency last month agreed to issue an environmental permit for it.
Veolia Environmental Services Shropshire Limited lodged its plans for the scheme with Shropshire Council last year.
Today Gareth Proffitt, a spokesman for the council, said the application will be considered by Shropshire Council’s strategic planning committee on Monday, July 26, at Meole Brace School in Shrewsbury, at 2pm.”
The application has sparked opposition from residents and campaign groups concerned about the proposal and the impact they perceive it could have.
But Veolia claims the facility could generate enough power to supply 10,000 homes and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill to just five per cent.
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this is an outrage it must not be allowed to go ahead, applying for planning permission to yourself is corrupt, everyone knows this process is polluting and unsafe so it should be turned down for planning
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surely this is going to be withdrawn because of the recssion?? surely how does this fit in with 25% cuts to local government. HAHAHAAHAHA they are idiots for even propoising it, there is no money left, besides another side effect of the recession is theres no waste left either!!!
just ask the incinerator owners in stoke, wolverhamption and birmingham, they dont have enough stuff to burn any more
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this will blight the town, house prices, historic charm, tourism , health will all suffer if this goes ahead
as a farmer i am worried about the impact of food and animals too its not right
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The councillors must turn this down, it is not indusive to high levels of recycling and its a waste of money too
What we should look at is GASIFICATION like in Knowsely its cheaper and cleaner
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how dodgy isthat you cant apply for planning to yourself, surely the independant regional inspector needs to decide this one
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what a terrible decision it goes completely against the local plan, i cannot believe this has been allowed in such economic times surely the council is badly indebted enough without buying this on a credit card thorugh pfi
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if this goes ahead it will be an afront to democracy
i disagree strongly with the officer recommendation in this report it is false to say it is needed both Telford and Cheshire have just turned down incinerators because of over capacity in the region
also the report dismisses other technologies which are proven and working already in the UK so it gives a flase impression to the planning commitee, its littered with errors and must be rewritten in my opinion
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this is a bloody outrage at a time when they are getting rid of community skips, picking up refuse every other week, and freezing the wages of bin men they have the audacity to spend £100 million on this, the whole management team should be sacked as incompetent
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i agree whoever made these decisions should be sacked, the problem is it was people who are all long since retired, shropshrie county council decided back in the 1990′s that it was going down the burning route, but times have changed, waste has declined massively, recycling has increased, government packaging regulations have kicked in, the economy is in decline, new technologies have emerged, so incineration is no longer cost effective or sensible. the new Shropshire Council fears reviewing its predecessors decisions though because its locked into a 27 year contract with Veolia which is worth nearly £1billion! To extradite itself from this may cause legal challenges, veolia would sue the council for millions. so the clever councillors will realise the best way to get out of this commitment is simple, planning failure, termination of the contract by mutual agreement, no penalty clauses, no problem, so the planning failed oh well back to the drawing board, plan B, cheaper greener solutions, more plastic recycling, another couple of AD plants for seperate food waste collections, aiming for zero waste and more investment in local charity reuse shops and furniture schemes and the like, council saves money, veolia saves face, everyones a winner, come on planning committee, do the right thing, turn it down
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no suprise the comment is from MR PROFIT
this whole thing stinks, PFI = profits for industry
this is public money being given away!
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I struggle to breath when there is too much pollution in the air and now they want to add more! this is an outrage! who do these people think they work for
WELL IT IS US, who pays their wages, this whole thing is a joke, we need to march on shirehall and make some heads roll, this is time for a change, sack the lot of them i say
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why is no one listening to us? i thought this was a democracy
we dont want this here, stop it now or things will get very ugly
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this is big worry for me and my kids who have asthma, because even in Wem we will be down wind of this thing and no one really knows about the science i appreciate but i know for sure that my little ones get poorly even when its just a bit dusty on a dry day so this is going to be terrible
why are they trying to pollute shropshire when we know for a fraction of this they could double recycling with a focused campaign of public education
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all i ask is that people look at this link to a clean green cheap gasifcation plant just an hour and a half up the road in Knowsely – http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=51934§ion=waste_management
it will deal with as much rubbish as Shrewsburys burner yet without the pollution and it costs on £40 million to build
now i ask the planners where in the report is this mention i see a whole section on alternatives which dimisses them all based on a conversation with the applicant. why did the report not mention this facility? this is clearly a better solution all round and yet is was ignored
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well spotted queenie
guess what i found another of these unproven unreliable not built in the UK plants being built in the UK at a fraction of the cost of the shrewsbury proposal http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=55817§ion=waste_management
looks like the planning committee is being given misleading information by someone, why would the planners do that ?
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so long as the planning committe turns this down shropshrie council could save hundreds of millions on this, that ought to save a few libraries from closing!
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im not against efw per se but this is the wrong place for one all the waste in the west mids is generated in the blackcountry so the proximity principle dictates that is where we should locate all the treatment what is the point in siting this on the edge of the region miles away from the waste, it will mean waste hase to be hauled here from wolverhampton and birmingham to feed it, thats insane
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Is it ok to continue incinerating Shrophire’s waste in other counties then? I’m fairly sure Shropshire’s clinical waste is shipped off to be dealt with in somebody else’s backyard. There used to be an incinerator at the Royal Shrewsbury hospital and there is an incinerator at the Crematorium. I think perhaps the worriers need to pay a visit to a facility similar to the one being proposed for Shrewsbury and then way up the correct facts and figures rather than listening to all the hysterical hype. I think MP is being pushed into over reaction by a well organised, highly publicised vocal group of NIMBYs.
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why do you think the hosptal incinerator closed cloudy ??? the removal of crown immunity from prosecution from hospitals meant they could be sued for malpractice and such and therefore they stopped burning this stuff in shrewsbury years ago because they knew the health risks and their old technology is not compliant with the clean air legislation
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i am appauled that they think this would be suitable for our medieval town on the battlefield as well? this is the problem with councillors from oswestry and ludlow determining shrewsbury business this is totally unacceptable and undemocratic , we dont want it and we will not accept it
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