Representation by Michael Marriott
- Date submitted
- 4 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This incinerator is to be located just off the A47 Wisbech bypass road. This section of the A47 has been unfit for it's traffic flow for many years now and gets worse year on year. Currently it is common for the road to be backed up to a standstill at this point, it is a single carriageway, not dualled as some parts of the A47 are. The A47 is also a major link into Norfolk and the East of England. This project requires around 300 large lorries a day to transport the material for incineration. 300 large lorries on this stretch of this road each day would quite likely bring the road to a halt for long periods of time which would be both environmentaly and financialy catastrophic for this area and East Anglia as a whole. There are other considerations for objecting to this location being used but simply from a transport planning point of view this has to be the worse possible location for the project. This project needs to be located close to a major road network that can cope with such an increase of heavy traffic. I am aware that the company planning the incinerator are looking at this site because the land cost would be low but surely transport planning has to be a major consideration.