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Council approves Bishop’s Castle biomass burner
Wednesday 13th October 2010, 4:24PM BST.
A controversial £5m biomass incinerator will be built in Bishop’s Castle after Shropshire councillors today approved the sale of land needed for the project.
Members of Shropshire Council’s cabinet upheld their decision of August 4 to sell land at Bishop’s Castle Business Park to Bishop’s Castle Biomass Power, despite widespread objections from residents.
The biomass plant would generate electricity for homes and scho0ls by burning wood chip and energy crops. The project will generate energy for 2,500 houses in Bishop’s Castle and surrounding villages.
More than 130 opponents made the journey to Shirehall today to learn their fate.
Full story in tomorrow’s Shropshire Star
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Not just against the wishes of the local community – against the advice of the council’s own Scrutiny Committee! I am dumbfounded. There is no justice.
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good jobs 1 – NIMBYs 0
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do the public views not count 99 1/0of the people in bishops castle are agenst the bio mass hung drawn and quarterd Is this what we can expect from shropshire council mot to listen to the voters.We will vote.
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To say that 99 percent of residents are against the Biomass burner is a complete fabrication of the facts. I suspect the MAJORITY of residents are quite indifferent about the biomass plant. Lets face it, there is more polution coming out of the resident’s own chimneys than will ever be emitted by the proposed plant. It seems to me that a MINORITY of people in Bishops Castle are failing to see the wider picture here.
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Well thanks very much, Shropshire Councillors. You have made a complete mockery of your much trumpeted policies of sustainability, transparency and local accountability. All empty words. You have wiped hundreds of thousands of pounds off propery values in the area and what is more important, condemned every one of the local residents- including children – to likely ill health from emissions and groundwater contamination for a generation to come. The whole process by which you have come to your decisions has the reek of deeply fishy decay about it, in my opinion. I am profoundly ashamed of all the elected members who have voted for this and hope that one day you will be made to answer for it.
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I would suspect that a lot of the ‘NIMBYS) are not only ‘Not In My Back Yard’ types but also ‘New In My Backyard’ types.
Of the local Town population of 2000, 300 attended the public meeting, how many of those have lived there longer than 5 years ?
Re: ‘You have wiped hundreds of thousands of pounds off propery values in the area’
This also highlights a MORE URGENT problem in rural areas such as Bishops Castle, with house prices sky rocketing thus not allowing local youngsters to get on the housing ladder, and whilst on the ‘eco’ trail a main culprit in the house price obscenity are the ‘eco’ homes at the Wintles.
Of course a lot of the ‘retirees’ are not in need of employment, which even if the ‘plant’ only provides a handful of jobs will be invaluable to the ‘locals’ who are.
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Thank you very much Shropshire Council for not listening to the people who will have to live with your monetary led decision.
You would all do well to remember who votes for you at the next election and who ultimately pays your wages.
What price on quality of life !!!
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Not good. Health costs will out weigh the short term economic benefits. Particulate matter causing respiratory ailments will cost the national millions as a result of this
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For years Bishops Castles rubbish has been transported by road to the back gardens of others to local landfill sites.
Now that they’re full, we can send our rubbish to your back garden to redress the balance.
Well done shropshire for deciding to deal with your own waste instead of dumping it on others.
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WRONG!!!!
its not burning rubbish – read the story – it is not a waste incinerator
it is burning WOOD, chips, brash and off cuts from the local forests
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A few of short points
1) Will those who say they support this scheme please use their real names and not hide behind anonymous handles
2) Shaun. The application attracted 400 letters of objection, huge attendance at the public inquiry and an unprecedented turnout at the Scrutiny meeting. On a working day well over 120 turned out to Shrewsbury to be senn and heard. But they were pushed into a side room and ignored. There was the Mayor, the doctor who served the town for years old folks and young folks incomers and long term residents. Business people who have brought jobs to the town. You do these people a disservice.
3)_Gringo. Do you know something we do not. This plant is limited to woodchip. It would be wholly different matter to burn waste and we are assurred that it will not be used for that purpose. It would require much tighter controls if it did.
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this is not suitable for a rurual town, power stations are heavy industry they should go in telford not in the country side
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