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Consultation begins on south London incinerator plans
9:30am Wednesday 22nd July 2009
A four-borough public consultation on controversial waste plans which could see a £1bn incinerator built to south London has started.
The 12-week consultation by Sutton, Kingston, Merton and Croydon councils comes after plans for the centre, which could handle radioactive waste, clinical waste and sludge disposal facilities, were revealed by this newspaper.
Croydon Councillor Jason Perry, cabinet member for planning and conversation said: “We know this subject is of immense interest to residents.
“Everyone who lives and works here is involved because they contribute to the waste which has to be dealt with.
“What we need is a responsible and mature debate across south London which recognises that the four boroughs need to identify the most suitable location for waste processing.
“All of the sites under consideration are already in use for some kind of industrial scale operation.
“Through this public consultation we aim to find where the investment can take place.
“Everyone is being given the opportunity to participate and I very much hope it is something people will welcome.”
Sutton Council has said the nature and location of any potential waste management site has not been decided and any potential incinerator would use “high-performing, low emission, modern, sustainable technologies”.
But the potential for any such incinerator has provoked widespread anger from community groups who believe it will be detrimental to the environment.
Sutton Council’s executive member for planning Councillor Lyn Gleeson said Sutton needed to produce less waste and deal with it “in better, modern ways and this is what the plan aims to do”.
She said: “Landfill space is rapidly running out and waste buried in landfill releases climate-changing gases.
“We want to hear the views of our residents as well as businesses and environmental groups about where we should manage waste.
“The potential sites have not been decided so this is a real chance for people to tell us about where they think the most appropriate sites are.”
The plan lists 28 potential sites across the four boroughs.
The consultation started on July 20 and will run through to October 16.
To get the questionnaire go to your nearest library, log on to sutton.gov.uk/wasteplan or email your comments to southlondonwasteplan@rbk.kingston.gov.uk.
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Arfur Towcrate, Staffycher says...
2:12pm Wed 22 Jul 09
What the public debate should be about is why Croydon and the other south London boroughs are so rubbish (pun intended) at recycling and stupid about air pollution that they think an incinerator is a good idea.
tjames, morden says...
3:51pm Wed 22 Jul 09
Waddon-Local, Waddon says...
11:11am Thu 23 Jul 09
Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury says...
1:42pm Sun 26 Jul 09
towerhil, New Addington says...
2:18pm Mon 17 Aug 09
Seriously, this is such a stupid argument. An old-style incinerator is never going to be built because the funding mechanism rules it out as an option. All that stuff about child respiration and infant mortality is therefore irrelevant, although it may interest everyone to know that car fumes are a far greater strain on their tiny lungs. In fact, the M25 produces in 3 minutes the equivalent of a year's worth of incineration. It follows that all opponents of the incinerator should give up their cars. Processes that involve fire at some point don't produce nearly the amount of pollutants as old style incinerators, but they still have to use that scary word, which is wilfully misinterpreted by the greens.
Therefore, the citing of evidence gained from studying a different technology is a bit futile. Technology moves on people- there aren't any valves in your TV, and your computer has more than 32megabytes of RAM these days, so maybe waste technology has, just maybe, moved on too?
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Michael Ryan, Shrewsbury says...
10:54am Wed 22 Jul 09
You could describe this situation as "everyone's a loser".
Saginaw County, in Michigan are mapping infant death rates by US census tract and if Boris Johnson were to publish online an electoral ward map of London with the infant mortality rates shown for every ward for the last six years of published data 2002-2007, you'd all be able to see that it's the incinerators that are driving up the infant death rates.
Wake up London.
Kind regards,
Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury