The latest is that the planning applications for both Derby incinerators (called gasifiers in order to avoid the ‘I’ word) will be heard in September, possibly October…
Further info on the 2 Facebook websites
Sinfin
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49232330898
Spondon
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108669061470&ref=share
Objections to both burners can be viewed and added to, on the Derby.gov.uk site -
Sinfin planning
http://eplanning.derby.gov.uk/acolnet/planningpages02/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeDocs&TheSystemkey=87966
from residents, organisations and businesses, including nearby Sainsburys.
There is also an interesting one from the PCT.
Spondon planning
http://eplanning.derby.gov.uk/acolnet/planningpages02/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeDocs&TheSystemkey=88032
from residents, associations and Doctors. The Spondon plant will also be burning radio-active waste from the nearby RR civil reactor which tests the fuel rods for Trident which carries the nuclear weaponry, yet the developer claimed at the one presentation held as far away as possible from Spondon, that thepublci need not know this!! . The incinerator is to be situated in Zone 3A floodplain – the highest risk. Complaints have been made regarding the inadequate Flood Risk Assessment too. It never rains……………………
WORLD RENOWNED TOXICOLOGIST VISITS DERBY
Some good news is that the world-renowned toxicologist Professor Paul Connett is coming to talk to us here in Derby, in Chesterfield and Coventry in October, about incinerators and health.
In Derby, he will be at the FrIEnds Meeting House,
ST HELENS ST, DERBY, DE1 3GY at 7PM SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
More gatekeeping – In the Public Notice for viewing the permit applications for the burners, the Environment Agency got the address wrong (for where the permit Documents were available for public viewing for both incinerators) in breach of IPPC Guidance but we do not know when the permit application will be re-advertised. 12 pages of objections were sent in by Derby FoE
CITY COUNCIL
Complaints have been sent regarding the abysmal ‘public consultation’ and officer’s shenanigans regarding planning reports, so far. Charming that they should have been in talks with the incinerator developers for about 4 years, and the public have known for a few months. PLus questions and debates at various neighbourhood forums across th ecity, have been ignored, unanswered and held back from neighbourhood Board reports, and the developer has not held any PUBLIC presentations in the affected wards – Derwent, Osmaston and Spondon.
DERWENT WASTE TRANSFER SITE
For example, the related Derwent Waste Transfer Site – (this will take blackbin recyclable waste while the burner is being built, compact it some more, then send it to landfill) enclose details of the complaint - some pretty startling untruths and the fact that no-one in Derwent ward knows that when it rains heavily or the nearby river floods, the main reception hall doors will be opened and black-bin waste – including recyclable waste as 100% 3-bin recycling collections are not yet rolled out across the city – will be allowed to flood out onto the streets and into nearby businesses, before being disgorged into the drains and river system. The Environment Agency has granted a 5year permit as they believe the river won’t flood before then (That is quite some long-range forecasting they are relying on. Unfortunately, they have got this wrong on a few occasions before, so we are polishing up our wellies here)
The developer also claims in his Application Form Box 3 – to be moving waste
up the hierarchy, yet will only be compacting waste further and then sending
it to landfill in larger lorries, whilst the incinerator is to be built!!! The city council officers seem to think this is a form of recycling.
http://eplanning.derby.gov.uk/acolnet/DocumentsOnline/documents/28003_6.pdf
This is in breach of Government legislation Planning Policy Statement 10 in which recycling facilties are supposed to be provided for the community
The company will also be accepting hazardous commercial waste at the site, yet have not applied for a waste permit variation. Yet such waste is shown as being in the ‘Materials Out’ list sent by the Sinfin plant developer Resource Recovery Solutions – (an amalgam of companies including ENERGOS who were behind ENER-G, the disastrous Byker incinerator, Interserve and United Utilities – lists of the latter’s prosecutions for various polluting and contamination ‘incidents’ are on the local Derby FoE site) to a member of the public. This has also been kept quiet.
Local Planning officers are obstructive – the worst of it being that the City Council’s Waste Management Director came to one Neighbourhood Board meeting in Sinfin and denied the existence of a clause in the Inter-Authority Agreement (sent toDEFRA in the Outline Business case October 2008) and in which the two councils – city and county – agree not to meet targets in
any other way, except for ‘the Project’ – the incinerator.
This was held in Sinfin, NOT Osmaston, the closest affected ward – the whole Sinfin ward, including Osmaston has the worst health statistics in the City, above national averages) NB We are already meeting landfill allowance targets which are dropping, yet the burner plans rely on a foreacst increase in waste.
At this neighbourhood forum, officers promoted the development to the
public, though could not deny the implications for the Air Quality
Management Area in Sinfin – that there would be ‘significant effects’. The Waste Contracts Manager had to be corrected twice for not stating the word ‘bio-degradable’ regarding the only part of the waste we have to treat. We already have composting facilties in place in Derby and the shires, which are dealing with this. Another one is being built in Water Swallows too.
Cabinet members were also ‘used’ at the top table, to further ‘show’ that the development was acceptable. At no time was the associated waste transfer site mentioned and the developer has been careful not to place much emphasis on it at presentations elsewhere in the city-
Then theres the 1.3 tonnes of CO2 produced for every tonne of waste burned …..I could go on
We have some great campaigners here, fighting these applications.
Many thanks also to the many hard-working people out there, in the network
