November 2007: Nicola Day + DOVE’s Judicial Review of EA’s permission for Veolia to operate proposed incinerator quashed. The EA and Veolia say they did not properly explain the information about carbon emissions. Application not yet, as far as I am aware, resubmitted.
November 2007: Cost of proposed incinerator doubled to some £145M. ESCC decided to meet the cost by extending the waste contract by 5 years.
November 2007: Planning permission reconsidered in the light of new legislation and re-issued.
December 2007: CPO for land at North Quay started.
January 2008: The CPO for land at North Quay finished minutes before agreement on the lease was reached!
January 2008: ESCC has acquired a lease on land at North Quay but this has not been registered at the time of writing. If the land is registered the CPO inspector will not have to submit a report to the Secretary of State.
February 2008: Judicial Review requests submitted by Lewes District FoE and Nicola Day + DOVE. Seaford Town Council voted £1,000 to each. Newhaven TC voted to underwrite the Nicola Day + DOVE application by £24,000. Permission for full hearing not expected before August/September. Visit www.dove2000.org.uk to follow this unfolding situation. Also, Sylvia has passed on many useful links to documents that delve into the Waste PFI Contract between East Sussex County Council and Veolia. A quick example: cross questioning of Waste Officers revealed that each “tonne of recycling disposed through the HWRS attracts a Baseline Price plus Recycling Supplement plus the income they receive from the end market”.
March 2008: The EA gave Hochtief permission to extract water from the river Ouse at Newhaven.
1Martin Cooper-Mitchell on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:26 am:
Not withstanding the arguments against the incinerator at Newhaven. I understand that the company in question intends to use the roads for ferrying waste to the site. It was suggested by Norman Baker(MP) that the railway should be used thereby avoiding the environmental pollution created by the lorry movements servicing the site. This suggestion was either ignored or rejected. Could it be as suggested that the site owners also own the lorries to be used? Can the A26 withstand their use or will it be destroyed by the resonant frequencies set up by the lorries – cracking the foundations?