A new incinerator on the outskirts of Shrewsbury would cost almost £2 million a year more to run than sending waste to landfill, a planning inquiry heard today.

Shrewsbury’s Battlefield Enterprise Park was not the only site that met key criteria for a proposed £60 million incinerator, it has been revealed.

The historic site of the Battle of Shrewsbury would not suffer ‘substantial harm’ from the creation of a £60 million incinerator 200 metres away from it, a planning appeal has heard.

A 65-metre high chimney that would form part of a planned £60 million incinerator would make less impact on the landscape than nearby pylons, a witness at an appeal hearing has claimed.

A £60 million incinerator needs to be built in Shrewsbury as an alternative to sending thousands of tonnes of waste from Shropshire to landfill, a planning inquiry has heard.

Destroying waste in a planned new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury may be more costly to Shropshire Council than sending it to landfill, a planning inquiry has heard.

Information used to support claims that a new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury would not harm the health of nearby residents lacks sufficient research, an inquiry has been told.

THOUSANDS OF tonnes of waste would have to be shipped in to Shrewsbury from the West Midlands to ensure a planned £60 million incinerator was operating at full capacity, an inquiry today heard.

A proposed £60 million incinerator on the edge of Shrewsbury would be ‘inefficient’ and would have an ‘unacceptable’ impact on climate change, a campaigner has told a planning inquiry.

A second mass grave and a medieval brick kiln could be lying underneath the Battle of Shrewsbury site, an archaeologist has claimed.

The historic site of the Battle of Shrewsbury would suffer ‘substantial harm’ as a result of the creation of a giant incinerator 200 metres away from it, a planning inquiry has been told.