Representation by Jade Burns
- Date submitted
- 4 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The project for a mega incinerator in the town of Wisbech is a farce. The road infrastructure already cannot cope with the amount of traffic we get, we’re on one of the only areas of the A47 to still be single carriageway. We have no rail links, we already have a large industrial presence in the town which diminishes our air quality without what is now being proposed. The proposed development site is within a mile of the towns largest secondary school, and close enough meaning these harmful emissions would be dispersed over the schools sports areas. Without the risk that the emissions pose to the town as a whole and our quality of life (which is already well below the national average if you check governmental reports on the town). The proposed scheme involves the burning of waste from other areas of the country, so it wouldn’t be our own waste, that would still be going to landfill, but apparently it’s fine to suggest that rubbish from other areas can be burned here affecting our health. This proposal is a farce, it was originally proposed for Kings Lynn, they fought it, so it they’ve come to the next town along. They’re praying on the fact that this town is underdeveloped and failing (this has been stated in governmental reports for the last 20 years). So in short, our roads cannot cope with the significant increase in traffic that is proposed. The site is in very close proximity to the towns major secondary school and would be downwind from residential areas. The town needs investment not to be further pushed into the ground by a mega incinerator. From governmental reports it is noted that in Wisbech is a deprived town, not only in funding and facilities but also our health and life expectancy is less than other areas of the country with extremely high rates of lung diseases and cancers (probably lingering effects from the fact this town was and still is an industrial town), the proposed facility would only worsen all of these factors and turn other investors away. No one wants to live or work in a town being filled by pollutant emissions. I also do not feel that the company proposing this has done adequate research into the location and surroundings. The plans they have provided are incomplete and do not provide accurate representations of proposed routes, or emissions are solely theoretical. Our lives and health isn’t to be played with in this way.