Representation by Nathaniel Heath
- Date submitted
- 14 September 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The location and the nature of the proposal is not appropriate, this proposal will have a significant environmental and social impact on the surrounding area. The pollution across emissions, light pollution, and environmental impacts are clear. The outline around a green energy park is disingenuous at least, the proposal aims to transport waste to the site and will have direct impact on the local community. The village in the vicinity of the proposal and the industrial estate was the site of one of largest industrial explosions in this country’s history, the collective trauma and impact of this cannot be underestimated and a proposal of this scale is not appropriate and ill considered given the level of brownfield sites across the Humber estuary. This proposal will cut across small semi rural communities, farmland, and a diverse eco system. For communities in this area there is already landfill in surrounding area, industrial estates, a polluting steel works, manufacturing. Consideration of the social, health, and devaluation of the local community by transferring large levels of waste to be processed at this site is not balanced against the impact this will have across communities l. The impact on nature, walking routes, and precious countryside is also a clear impact which hinders this been a sensible proposal and impacts will be distinct. The consultation held during covid 19 pandemic was flawed due to digital access issues across local elderly communities who could not offer their views appropriately, the proposal is not supported across the local community and in person events did not offer factual views, there was a significant lack of real details on the proposal. The local community will also see significant increases in traffic without significant infrastructure investment and proposals around traffic management are flawed as traffic will centre on the local village as part routing from local areas.