All consultations in regards to the ‘Johnsons Aggregates’ planned recycling facility for ‘Bottom End Ash’ has passed and we now await the full planning application at Cambs CC.
Below is what I’ve been sent from The Wisbech Without Incineration Group.
The implications being that if this ‘Mega’ Incinerator gets planning permission the waste will more than likely come here to the ‘Johnsons Recycling Plant’.
How will it arrive – more than likely the A605 through Coates/Eastrea & Whiitlesey.
If you have concerns –
Please contact and lobby your Whittlesey/Fenland & County Councillors….
The window to object to the company MVV closes on August 13.
WISWIN – objection below..
We object in the strongest possible terms to your plan to build the Wisbech mega incinerator because we have at heart the well-being of Fenland and its people. If this incinerator were to go ahead we believe it would be an attack on that well-being and a body blow to the fragile economy of this small market town.
More than 300 lorry movements a day would bring annually half a million tons of waste to be stored then burned in the town from cities within a 100-mile radius including London and Birmingham. We can all expect gridlock on our roads.
We are shocked how blithely you want to site this scheme right in the middle of our southern sector. With its chimney visible for miles it would be just 750m from Fenland’s largest secondary school, a near neighbour of several other schools, an eye clinic, many homes and businesses and an important leisure development site. By burning rubbish, including plastics, its CO2, other greenhouse gases and fine particulates would be particularly harmful to the atmosphere and to people living locally and downwind, into Norfolk and across our farmland.
We don’t believe that any potential benefit from new jobs, many of which will be in specialist roles and not tailored to the local employment market, is strongly outweighed by the threat to the town’s environment and economy from these negative impacts.
This incinerator would be too big, too threatening to health, too much a visual eyesore, too punishing on our road system and traffic-flow and simply too close to the heart of our town. It’s a flawed scheme because it’s in completely the wrong place. Wisbech can’t afford to have you here with this monstrosity and we shouldnot be made a rubbish dump for the nation.
