We need your help to stop the incinerator. Devon County Council’s planning committee will soon be considering a planning application by Viridor to build an incinerator and landfill at New England Quarry just south of Lee Mill and near to Ivybridge.
I strongly believe that this is the wrong site with the wrong technology that should not be approved by the county planners. To stop the incinerator we need your help to start the biggest letter writing campaign that Devon has ever seen.
Can you help by writing an objection to Viridor’s planning application and sending it to Devon County Council? You can post or email your objection (as long as you give your name and address). Below are ten reasons we’ve prepared as reasons to object to the planning application. The committee can only consider objections on planning ground so please tell the Committee why you think the incinerator application should be turned down.
Viridor have now submitted their planning application for an incinerator and landfill at New England Quarry. This will affect everyone in this area.
We need your help to stop the incinerator
Devon County Council’s planning committee will now consider Viridor’s application.
Local residents and businesses are able to voice their opinions on the proposed development by sending their views to the committee. We need as many people as possible to send in objections to the planning committee to help stop the incinerator and landfill getting planning permission.
How you can help stop the incinerator?
The Planning Committee will only take into account planning reasons for opposing the incinerator. We have compiled a list of ten reasons that you could use in opposing the planning application. You will need to put these reasons into your own words and include your full name and address for your views to be considered.
1. Impact on local roads and the A38 – 120 extra trucks will go through Lee Mill every day as a minimum, and that’s not including construction traffic.
2. Negative visual impact - The incinerator’s chimney will be seen from miles around and will be a massive 100m tall.
3. Impact on health – The prevailing wind will blow any toxic emissions and particulates onto Lee Mill and Ivybridge and further afield. Start up and shut down times as well as any times of malfunction would likely release large amounts of pollution including dioxins. There are also concerns regarding the damaging effects of nanoparticles which cannot be filtered out.
4. Flooding – The proposed site is on the floodplain of the River Yealm. We are worried that the toxic bottom ash could pose a threat to the Yealm and its estuary.
5. Wrongly identified site - We have concerns that the council wrongly identified the New England Quarry as a site for incineration in November 2005 and overlooked better sites and technologies.
6. Habitat impacts - The emissions, dioxins, and ash that is high in metals, will have long-term effects on our local agriculture, animals, fish and shellfish.
7. Carbon dioxide - The incinerator will emit 17 tonnes of C02 every hour for its 25 year life span. We want to find a more sustainable way of dealing with our waste.
8. Waste of energy - The incinerator is supposed to generate heat for local homes but there are none near enough to the incinerator to benefit, so the heat will be wasted. In addition, far more energy could be saved by instead further improving our recycling.
9. Impact on tourism - A polluting incinerator and landfill on our doorsteps will put off tourists who cherish our clean, green environment, although Viridor think it will be a visitor attraction!
10. Lack of proper consultation by Viridor – The local community has not been properly consulted by Viridor regarding the plans. Viridor’s consultation has been cosmetic and not genuinely trying to engage the community.
There are two ways to send your views to the council – you can email your objection to the council or you can write and post your objection.
Via Email:
newengland_efw@devon.gov.uk (remember to include your full name and address)
Via Post:
Mrs S Penaluna
Planning Officer
Devon County Council
ABG Lucombe House
County Hall
Exeter EX2 4QW
I am pleased that the community has come together to oppose this incinerator and the best illustration of this is the formation of CAVIL – the Campaign Against Viridor’s Incinerator and Landfill. I am part of this group as are the Tories, Lib Dems, UKIP, local councils, community groups and individuals opposed to the incinerator.
Focus on encouraging objections
As some of you will know I’ve been campaigning against the Tory position on incineration for some time – but let me be clear about this – although Ivybridge’s Tory Councillor who is leading the search for an incinerator has many questions to ask – we need to concentrate all our efforts on opposing this incinerator application by Viridor first. Cllr Roger Croad has already embarassed the Tories so much that they lost one of their safest wards at a recent by-election. The time for him to be held to account will come – but for now we need to all concentrate on encouraging as many objections as possible to Viridor’s application.
Public Meeting
In the next few weeks volunteers from the community – including from the Labour Party – will be delivering 7,000 leaflets to homes in the local area affected by Viridor’s incinerator and landfill plans asking local people to send objections to the Council. As part of this we’re also organising another public meeting – this time at Ivybridge Community College on Saturday 13 March from 2.30pm. Please do come along – and find out how you can object to the incinerator and encourage others to do so.
If we all work together we can stop this incinerator. Let’s get to work.
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