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Decision day on Shrewsbury burner postponed
Friday 23rd July 2010, 11:30AM BST.
A crunch meeting to decide the fate of controversial plans to build a £60 million incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury has been postponed.
Councillors were due to make a decision on Monday afternoon.
But today Shropshire Council said a decision on the proposals by Veolia for the burner at Battlefield would now not take place until September 1.
A number of people who object to the proposals said they only received letters from the council yesterday giving details on how to register to speak publicly at next week’s proposed strategic planning committee meeting.
And they say they were unable to register as the letter said they needed to give two working days’ notice, which was not possible because of how late they received the letters.
The unitary authority said it had received a number of requests from people wishing to speak.
And it admitted that some people may not have had “adequate” time to register their interest which had led to the meeting being postponed.
Miriam Walton, secretary of Safe Waste in Shropshire, today said: “We’re all absolutely fed-up. They are wasting huge amounts of Shropshire residents’ time by getting it wrong over and over again and failing to observe proper procedures.”
Ian Kilby, head of development management at Shropshire Council, confirmed the postponement.
He said Monday’s meeting had now been postponed until September 1 when it would take place at 2pm at Meole Brace School in Shrewsbury.
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further evidence of incompetence in the planning section, there report was full of wholes, they have no knowledge of alternative waste management practices and they are not fit to decide on this it must go to the regionaal planning inspector for an independant decision
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this will give the committee time to go through the report in detail and realise the error of their ways, even in the months that this takes there will be further increases in recycling as plastic bottle collections begin, there just insnt enough rubbish to justify this burner, the planners MUST turn it down because there is no demand and no need
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think long and hard councillors really do your research on this now, waste is declining new technologies are coming on stream and yet this will lock the council into a 27 year contract for waste paying over the odds for years to come, your first duty is to taxpayers who will fund this, if you want lower council tax, if you want flexibility in the future, if you want control over your waste services, if you want to cut the deficit and save the council millions the turn this planning application down
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good put it off indefinately we dont want one in our town
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PLEASE MAY WE HAVE A FULL LIST PUBLISHED IN THIS PAPER, OF THE NAMES OF EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNCILLOR WHO VOTES IN FAVOUR OF THIS PROPOSAL WHEN THE VOTE IS FINALLY TAKEN.
THIS WAY EVERYONE WILL THEN HE AWARE OF YOUR TRUSTED REPRSENTATIVES TRUE BELIEFS, AND KNOW WHERE TO CAST THEIR NEXT VOTE COME ELECTION TIME.
I AM SURE WE WILL HAVE WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE LET THE ELECTORATE DOWN, AND WE SHALL NOT FORGET!
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