Council support in waste protest
RESIDENTS protesting against a proposed £18 million waste incinerator west of York have won the support of council bosses.
Harrogate Borough Council's Planning Committee members have decided to formally object to the proposed round-the-clock plant at Marston Moor Business Park, Tockwith.
The proposal, put forward by BCB Environmental Management Ltd, involves transforming a former Second World War aircraft hangar into a waste facility. It would produce energy by processing 60,000 tonnes of waste material a year.
Harrogate Council environmental health officer Mark Lee said in his report to members that the assessment had looked at air quality, odour, noise and dust concentrated on residential properties in the area.
"Although I accept this as an important part of the assessment, they fail to make adequate consideration as to the proposed effect on occupants of Marston Moor Business Park."
The plans which were discussed by members yesterday have upset residents, who have lodged more than 700 objections to North Yorkshire County Council. Their concerns include noise, operating hours, odours, health and traffic congestion.
However, BCB Environmental Management has defended its application for the energy from waste (EfW) plant.
BCB's managing director, Phil Boardman, said: "This project has been fundamentally designed from the ground up to have no significant environmental impact.
"It is now going through the extremely rigorous planning process and the equally strict process for it to be granted an environmental permit.
"We are confident that the technology involved in the project will perform as well as we have claimed. However, we recognise that the application will be rejected if it is shown to be technically flawed or if we fail to demonstrate that the scheme will have no significant environmental impact.
"BCB has over the past six months spent a significant amount of money on public consultations that have been much wider and more detailed than was required simply to meet our statutory obligations."
He added: "We are fully aware of the concerns expressed by some of Tockwith's residents over our planning application but believe it is now time to stop the war of words and allow this project to be scrutinised by the planning professionals."
Tockwith with Wilstrop Parish Council has also resolved to object to the application, and every adjoining parish council, as well as governors of the nearby primary school and other local organisations, have also lodged formal objections to the proposal.
The application will be determined by North Yorkshire County Council.
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9:54am Friday 28th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury on 11:13am Fri 28 Mar 08
Both the Dorking Advertiser and the Surrey Mirror have printed ward maps showing elevated infant mortality rates in the electoral wards downwind of incinerators in Kirklees, Edmonton and Coventry incinerator and I've found similar pattern around twenty-five other incinerators and also around three power stations, two oil refineries, a cement works and a foundry.
Chay & Greenstone observed falling infant mortality rates in US from 1970-1990 after their Clean Air Act reduced airborne pollution.
Here in the UK, no local authority has bothered to examine infant mortality rates at electoral ward level and neither has the Health Protection Agency bothered in the five years that they've been in existence despite their promise in August 20003 to look at health effects around landfill sites, brownfield sites and incinerators.
I suggest that Dr Dick van Steenis MBBS is invited to address a public meeting on the health effects of incinerators and if any incinerator company wishes to field an expert against Dr van Steenis in a public debate, I suggest that they ask Professor Roy Harrison and Professor Jim Bridges, the latter having lost to Dr van Steenis at the incinerator public inquiry in Hull in 2002 and the former trying to downplay health effects in Bucks at present where Veolia wish to build an incinerator.
The Surrey papers carried my maps as Sita own or operate the three incinerators names above and they wish to buil another at Capel and are finding out that their claims of negligible health effects of the PM2.5 emissions from incinerators are not backed up by any data.
More information at www.ukhr.org
Kind regards,
Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
Both the Dorking Advertiser and the Surrey Mirror have printed ward maps showing elevated infant mortality rates in the electoral wards downwind of incinerators in Kirklees, Edmonton and Coventry incinerator and I've found similar pattern around twenty-five other incinerators and also around three power stations, two oil refineries, a cement works and a foundry.
Chay & Greenstone observed falling infant mortality rates in US from 1970-1990 after their Clean Air Act reduced airborne pollution.
Here in the UK, no local authority has bothered to examine infant mortality rates at electoral ward level and neither has the Health Protection Agency bothered in the five years that they've been in existence despite their promise in August 20003 to look at health effects around landfill sites, brownfield sites and incinerators.
I suggest that Dr Dick van Steenis MBBS is invited to address a public meeting on the health effects of incinerators and if any incinerator company wishes to field an expert against Dr van Steenis in a public debate, I suggest that they ask Professor Roy Harrison and Professor Jim Bridges, the latter having lost to Dr van Steenis at the incinerator public inquiry in Hull in 2002 and the former trying to downplay health effects in Bucks at present where Veolia wish to build an incinerator.
The Surrey papers carried my maps as Sita own or operate the three incinerators names above and they wish to buil another at Capel and are finding out that their claims of negligible health effects of the PM2.5 emissions from incinerators are not backed up by any data.
More information at www.ukhr.org
Kind regards,
Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
Posted by: Gardener, York on 1:46pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Toxwith - waiting for this to get built and house prices to descend rapidly, plan is to buy up and rent out to people who aren't fussy!
Toxwith - waiting for this to get built and house prices to descend rapidly, plan is to buy up and rent out to people who aren't fussy!
Posted by: tricky ricky, malton on 1:55pm Fri 28 Mar 08
NIMBY - thats all i have to say. I live at the edge of Acomb and not that far from Tockwith. Surely we would be at risk too as would residnets of Long Marston and Rufforth. These things are safe. Its hous prices they are worried about. We're still considering moving there with or with out the incinerator
NIMBY - thats all i have to say. I live at the edge of Acomb and not that far from Tockwith. Surely we would be at risk too as would residnets of Long Marston and Rufforth. These things are safe. Its hous prices they are worried about. We're still considering moving there with or with out the incinerator
Posted by: CHRIS YORK BORN&BRED, YORK on 8:23am Sat 29 Mar 08
Thank you Michael Ryan,
Can all these people that want this incinerator please tell me why they cant even get rid of the horrible smell from the depot at the side of the park & ride on shipton road.??????
I await your answer....
As for tricky ricky, you must be affected by the fumes from harewood winn,malton is 20 miles from acomb the last time I looked....
Thank you Michael Ryan,
Can all these people that want this incinerator please tell me why they cant even get rid of the horrible smell from the depot at the side of the park & ride on shipton road.??????
I await your answer....
As for tricky ricky, you must be affected by the fumes from harewood winn,malton is 20 miles from acomb the last time I looked....
Posted by: clibil, Tockwith on 4:53pm Mon 31 Mar 08
Hey Tricky Ricky
Why is it that anyone who is worried about being harmed by something near them is a NIMBY. People round here are NAMBY's - They don't want this built in ANYONE's back yard.
If you think it is OK for your neighbour to put out 100lb of Mercury and tons of Ammonia and microparticles every year, then we'll just burn all the rubbish next door to you.
Hey Tricky Ricky
Why is it that anyone who is worried about being harmed by something near them is a NIMBY. People round here are NAMBY's - They don't want this built in ANYONE's back yard.
If you think it is OK for your neighbour to put out 100lb of Mercury and tons of Ammonia and microparticles every year, then we'll just burn all the rubbish next door to you.
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