We the undersigned petition the council to act coherently as planning authority, commissioner of waste services and guardian of public health, to reconsider its approval of the proposed incinerator at Northacre, Westbury, and the extent to which its Waste Strategy relies on incineration. We believe the council will be failing in its duty if it does not require a new full planning application, including Environmental and Health Impact Assessments, as the technology, inputs to and layout of the plant have become too significant a variation from those approved in 2015, and its own policies state that the finer particulates likely to be emitted are harmful to human health.
The council has Core Policies which are contradicting each
other, eg approval of incineration in a population centre, when
this should be a reason for refusal on public health grounds. We
expect the council to look at the whole picture and devise a Waste
Strategy which aims to reduce tonnage of unrecyclable waste, and to
renegotiate its waste contracts to promote re-use and recycling and
avoid the building of an unecessary new incinerator.
This ePetition ran from 22/01/2018 to 05/03/2018 and has now finished.
128 people signed this ePetition.