Representation by Geoff Newham
- Date submitted
- 15 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The consultation is premature and not of an appropriate quality. MVV is not following good consultation practice for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP). The single stage of formal consultation is premature and does not meet the legislative requirements, particularly in respect of the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR), which is incomplete. MVV has provided misleading information, intended to by-pass scrutiny by the Local Planning Authority, by over-stating the capacity and output. The project does not comply with key elements of policy, including the National Policy Statements for Energy, the National Planning Policy Framework for waste and the UK’s adopted Sixth Carbon Budget recommendations. It also fails to comply with the Local Area Development Plan's policies, both current and proposed as well as the Cambridge CC's and Peterborough City Council's plans and policies for waste management. The limited benefits of the project, coupled with its non-compliance with planning and climate change policies, are such that the project is unlikely to obtain consent. This proposal will mean an unacceptable increase in heavy transport on already highly congested roads which will add huge costs to the local economy and productivity through delays and lost hours, as well as an unacceptable increase in toxic emissions from heavy trucks and a chimney that's too tall for the area. The site is too close to the area's biggest school over which toxic emissions and particulates will descend endangering the health of children, apart from what it will do for the health of those living and working in the nearby locality.