Representation by Robert Smith
- Date submitted
- 6 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The company failed to consult properly and has not begun to explain how the road infrastructure will cope with the huge increase in HGV traffic coming from all directions. The roads in and around Wisbech and the surrounding parishes are in a parlous state and simply not built to cope with such traffic, particularly in and around the proposed site which already suffers from serious sink hole events. The proposal to build such a massive structure near a school seems madness and the proposed chimney will ruin the landscape. Better scientists than me can decide on how dangerous the emissions will be but given the amount of brown field sites available away from population areas, surely it makes more sense for such a project to be built away from populous areas. There seems to be disagreement amongst scientists as to how damaging to the environment the incinerator will be and this, coupled with the lack of road infrastructure to support, means that planning permission should be refused.