Representation by Mr John Barnes
- Date submitted
- 18 November 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Unlike many Government Proforma's which seem deliberately confusing to the n'th degree, yours is relatively easy to understand and complete, however, having completed it, your website refuses to accept it and no-one answers your listed telephone number. Accordingly, I am left with no alternative but to post my remarks: Registration comments The immense size. Its location within the town itself. The impact on the town caused by the huge number of lorries that will feed it from as far away as London. Irrespective of the claims made as to the cleanliness of the output, my research internationally of this type of incinerator indicates that noxious particles are still of concern to human health. When Medworth first gave audience in Wisbech they admitted to me that no other site had been investigated or even considered. When I mentioned alternative sites such as Kings Lynn and the huge Electricity Board Site on the A 17 south of River Nene the Representative stated that he had never heard of them. For over thirty years on my retirement from the Met Police, I had got sand and gravel from a yard in Wisbech until one day when I went there, I learned that the owners had sold out to a man called [REDACTED] who already had a Yard in the town. My current concern is the fact that his name does not, on the face of it, have anything to do with Medworth. Kings Lynn, Cambridge and March have direct rail connections yet the railway line to Wisbech was cut off many many years ago by Beetching and would have to be completely renovated and its course altered. The huge number of garbage lorries that will be required to feed this monster will swamp the already over-congested single carriageway A47 that still awaits the promise made by a certain Prime Minister of the day called Cameron to dual it!! The entire manner in which this has been thrust upon Wisbech is something that I would like to investigate a great deal further were I still in harness. John Barnes