HERE WE GO AGAIN!
IF YOU DON’T WANT A MASSIVE INCINERATOR AT ARDLEY READ ON AND FIND OUT HOW TO HELP.
IF YOU DON’T WANT A MASSIVE INCINERATOR AT ARDLEY READ ON AND FIND OUT HOW TO HELP.
On October 19th 2009 Oxfordshire County Council’s Planning and Regulation Committee rejected Viridor’s application to build this Incinerator. Viridor appealed and the Secretary of State will determine the result of the Public Inquiry in January 2011. Before the Inquiry started Viridor submitted a second application. This second application is not materially different from the first
one - it is still the same huge building in the same place - but the Planning
and Regulation Committee will sit to consider this application
on 25th October at 2.00pm in County Hall.
Also, and in spite of the lack of planning permission, Oxfordshire County Council is preparing to sign a contract with Viridor locking Oxfordshire into an agreement that will either see the plant built or, if planning permission is not granted, incur a massive seven-figure penalty to be paid by the Oxfordshire Public. This has significantly increased the probability of an incinerator being built at Ardley. Oxfordshire County Council only requires the application to be passed by the Planning and Regulation Committee to make it a reality!
one -
on 25th October at 2.00pm in County Hall.
Also, and in spite of the lack of planning permission, Oxfordshire County Council is preparing to sign a contract with Viridor locking Oxfordshire into an agreement that will either see the plant built or, if planning permission is not granted, incur a massive seven-
PEOPLE POWER CAN
INFLUENCE THIS DECISION
COUNCILLORS ON THE PLANNING COMMITTEE WILL BE INFLUENCED BY PUBLIC OPINION.
INFLUENCE THIS DECISION
COUNCILLORS ON THE PLANNING COMMITTEE WILL BE INFLUENCED BY PUBLIC OPINION.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU CONTRIBUTE BY LETTER, EMAIL, PHONE OR ALL 3
All the contact details for the Planning Committee Councillors can be found
by clicking this link PLANNING COMMITTEE Communicate to all of them individually by and from every member of your household...
by clicking this link PLANNING COMMITTEE Communicate to all of them individually by and from every member of your household...
Handwritten letters (most effective way to lobby)
Computer written letters
E-mails (although these are easily deleted)
Telephone and politely state your objection
Personal contact
All letters And Lobbying Must Be Completed Before The Planning Meeting On 25th October. So if you can please aim to have your letters, emails sent by Friday
In your letters you can just state that you object, but the more reasons you give the better. As well as your own concerns you may wish to include some of the following points:-
Development in open countryside.
Building totally out of character with the surrounding landscape.
(The potential building, excluding the stack, is huge being some 14 metres higher than Trow Pool Water Tower!).
Pollution of air, soil and water.
Increased traffic congestion and resultant greater risk to safety.
No restriction on importing waste from neighbouring counties.
Possible long-term adverse health effects.
The environmental conflict of the NW Bicester Eco-Development and its proximity to an incinerator.
Once completed we will be locked into a thirty-five year contract with no break clause.
This application is extremely similar to the one already rejected in October last year.
Viridor will agree to dismantle the building and restore the site at the end of 35 years and in their eyes this makes it a ‘temporary’ facility and thus different from its first application. Spanning 3 generations common sense cries out that this can hardly be anything but a ‘permanent’ facility.
The technology chosen is already out-of-date and will only age further as the 35 years pass.
CHERWELL DISTRICT COUNCIL’S
PLANNING OBJECTIONS
(These are the strongest objection points to use)
PLANNING OBJECTIONS
(These are the strongest objection points to use)
On 12 August 2010 Cherwell District Council met to consider its position on the second application and once again objected to it as follows:
This Council continues to consider that the analysis of alternative sites undertaken by the applicant has failed to provide a comprehensive and rational analytical assessment of the potentially available sites and does not provide an adequate basis upon which to consider allowing development which will cause harm to the character and appearance of the countryside.
The proposed EfW building and chimneystack will cause harm to the character and appearance of the countryside and will be contrary to the saved policies C7, C8 and C9, of the adopted Cherwell Local Plan.
Cherwell District Council further resolved that:
Oxfordshire County Council is advised that it would be inappropriate for the Waste Planning Authority to consider granting approval for this scheme in advance of knowing the outcome of the appeal. Should the County Council be minded to approve the application it is submitted that this application be treated a Departure from the Development Plan and that the Secretary of State be given the opportunity to consider ‘calling-
This Council would ask that Oxfordshire County Council give careful consideration to the following issues before reaching its decision:
How much weight should be attached to the applicant’s suggestion that waste heat could be used as Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for the Eco-
It is necessary to carefully examine the issue of need given the known alternative proposals from WRG at Sutton Courtenay.
Does the proposal comply with Policy W3 of the Minerals and Waste Local Plan given the proximity analysis submitted as part of the applicant’ evidence to the recent public inquiry and given the visual intrusion of the proposal into the character and appearance of the countryside? There are highway safety implications of the increased traffic using the narrow bridge on the B430 north of the site.