We’ll stick it to the dump (From Your Local Guardian)

We’ll stick it to the dump

3:08pm Thursday 13th November 2008 in

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I enjoyed Mr McManus’ witty poem in the Guardian, on October 30, about a rubbish dump for 100,000 tonnes a year at the Rainbow Estate at Raynes Park Station, followed by your front page article last week.

Let me assure readers that this proposal for a “rubbish dump” (or to give it its proper name, a recycling facility) has not been approved.

Many in our community, including residents, residents’ associations and local Conservative councillors from Raynes Park, Dundonald and West Barnes, are determined it will not happen and will fight it, particularly since we have all just been consulted by the South London Waste Partnership about disposal of waste locally, in a process which will not produce “preferred sites” for such activities until 2011 (and the Rainbow site is unsuitable anyway).

This proposal to pre-empt the conclusion of this long consultation is therefore highly premature and discourteous to residents who have only just been asked their initial views and whose responses have not yet been published.

COUN ROD SCOTT
Raynes Park
Ward councillor