Representation by Barry Fogarty
- Date submitted
- 6 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Equity in planning decisions. In the absence of other compelling reasons, is the siting of infrastructure evenly shared throughout the nation? Within a ten mile radius of Walton Highway, there is the Kings Lynn Power Station, the Sutton Bridge power station and the Walpole electricity sub-station, all built in the last twenty-five years. These three nationally strategic infrastructures would become four with the EWF. As to their importance, the Sutton Bridge power station alone supplies 2% of the electricity of England and Wales. Difficult to imagine there is a comparable concentration anywhere else in the East of England and possibly the country. As such this area already seems to be providing more than its share of the national energy infrastructure, so it seems only reasonable the incinerator should be situated elsewhere.