The Monklands Residents Against Pyrolysis Plant (MRAPP) team are reporting success with a unanimous vote to oppose incineration.
A special meeting of North Lanarkshire Council’s Planning and Transportation Committee was held at the Motherwell Civic Centre to consider an incinerator application from Shore Energy.
The Committee voted unanimously to reject the application by Simon Howie’s company to build a pyrolysis incinerator in the Carnbroe/Shawhead area of Coatbridge, on the site of a former Shanks McEwan landfill.
Mr Howie intends to appeal to Scottish Government and campaigners are ready to give evidence in opposition to the scheme. More details are available from the Green Alternatives to Incineration in Scotland website.
The Coatbridge victory represents the fifth Scottish incinerator to have been refused planning consent in the last 6 months. In each case the companies are in the process of appealing to Scottish Ministers, meaning a local public inquiry by the Government ‘Reporter’.
There are more applications in the pipeline. See http://www.gainscotland.org.uk/proposed-facilities.shtml for details.
The people of Abernethy are facing the toughest struggle of all, because they are two miles downwind of a proposed incinerator at Binn Farm that received planning consent in 2006.
