Representation by Stephen Snell
- Date submitted
- 15 October 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
My main issues This company have tried twice already to bring an incinerator in this region, rejected by Norwich, rejected by Kings Lynn (Liz Truss). Our local council have raised objections but to avoid local council and locals rejection on a planning application they have now gone even further and submitted an application for a mega incinerator to totally bypass this key stage. Our local MP [] has conducted an independent expert to look into their application and has found many flaws which he has submitted to government and had little communication back from the company which quite frankly is extremely poor communications from them. I am extremely concerned about emissions onto agricultural land and the immense amount of waste brought in by diesel lorries over 350 lorries day and night. This site is too close to town, schools and small villages. The A47 is in many parts single lane traffic and continually needs repairing and resurfacing to the already over stretched volume of traffic. One accident/breakdown which there are too many already on this road lead to dramatic hold ups and movement of traffic directed through small villages not meant for lorries and volume of traffic. The roads already shake when heavy lorries are redirected and cuss road surface damage more cost to our council and inevitably ourselves. Already for the small amount of jobs this will create the risk is high of food factories already confirmed they would have to relocate due to this incinerator. This will be a blight to local agricultural as we do not fully know what this amount of burning fallout will be, local economy as many of my neighbours are concerned about house depreciation due to this and more importantly on their health. The sheer volume of extra vehcicles per day, Wisbech needs reinvestment but this will make the heart of the fens unattractive for many future businesses and developers I’m absolutely positive of that. I am absolutely astounded that this company have almost gone through the back door straight to government without listening to anyone local and responding to our local MP. I cannot express enough how worried and concerned I am about this. I was of the understanding that the government wants to cut incinerators by 2040 by half so this is not needed. This company has been unsuccessful twice already and the reasons are the exactly the same as this new application it is only 20 miles away from the previously rejected one. Same roads but with more waste and more lorries and more incinerated waste coming into the heart of our growing land our waterways and environment. Please do not under estimate the stress and worry this is causing locals. Our council reject this, please look carefully at their arguments against this along with our MP as they are also ours. Thank you.