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CRAP / PAP People Against
Pollution
Campaign for Residents Against Portobello
PEOPLE AGAINST POLLUTION
With the debate now focussing on incineration and Onyx,
People Against Pollution would like to draw to attention
some facts about the incinerator planned for Newhaven.
In early February, local councils along the coastal strip
will be meeting together to discuss how collectively we
can defeat the plans for this large incinerator that will
burn waste from Brighton and Hove and East Sussex. It is
felt that local residents' groups will also have an important
part to play in supporting Lewes District Council.
People have 6 weeks from February 11 to object to ESCC &
BHCC's plans where they are failing to take up the Inspector'
s recommendations. Dove and PAP will be issueing prewritten
letters for people to post (or as guidelines in what should
be written in their own letter)
People Against Pollution would also like to stress that
we feel the need to keep party politics off the agenda so
that we can all pull together for the good of our community.
We hope that the local residents will continue to support
People Against Pollution, the local Councils and local people
in fighting this overlarge incinerator.
Best Wishes
Angela Hopwood
POINTS TO CONSIDER - RE THE INCINERATOR - JAN 05
Lewes District Council has already spent a very considerable
amount of money in employing a QC and expert witnesses to
fight this Waste Local Plan and incinerator.
(It is felt that we should all be supporting them!)
The South Downs and Weald Primary Care trust has objected
on both health and traffic grounds.
One expert witness speaking on behalf of LDC at the WLP
Public Inquiry predicted that an incinerator at Newhaven
would affect property prices within a 2 mile radius around
N/H and so this would impact on Peacehaven.
It will bring polluting diesel lorries in from East Sussex,
Brighton and Hove - causing more traffic congestion on our
coastal strip. Diesel fumes are damaging to health - linked
now to heart disease as well as cancer.
The incinerator will add to the burden on our lungs, it
will add large amounts of nitrogen dioxide to the air each
year. The Inspector commented on this in his report.
Incineration is not a fail-safe technology and incinerators
can and do malfunction. For example the Coventry incinerator
on one occasion in 2000 threw out kilograms of mercury and
this is neurologically toxic and damaging to health. A malfunction
such as this could also interfere with critical windows
of brain development in the development of the human embryo.
Treatment of waste is subject to subsidies and taxes.We
have to remember that incineration only comes above landfill
in the waste hierarchy. With advances in biological treatment
technology, in time, incineration could well be subjected
to an incinerator tax which will rise over time as large
incinerators become outdated. As outlined in PPG 10 we need
to have flexibility for emerging technology and for legislative
change at national and European level.
It is been said that an incinerator will prevent us achieving
high recycling levels - already B&HCC & ESCC are
ignoring the Inspector's Report and aiming for lower recycling
rates than those recommended in the Inspector's report.
DESPITE what the press has said the Inspector has not given
his full support to incineration and it is important to
look at his report. On page 176, the Inspector says, "to
be robust, the Plan must allow for a situation where acceptable
proposals for incineration may not come forward"
The Inspector has said that the chimney could be 90 metres
in height. We would add that from Newhaven it will rise
above the high ground of Peacehaven and Telscombe. This
means an east wind would bring pollution straight along
to Telscombe and Saltdean and further.
Angela Hopwood
Follow the Dove - calling all Sussex and UK residents
We need everyone to get to Lewes anyway they can on Tuesday
21 October 2003 to register their protests on the Health
Day at the Public Inquiry into the Local waste Plan at the
White Hart Hotel Lewes 10am to 4pm
Sign your name recommending to the Inspector that ESCC
abandon plans to build 2 incinerators in east Sussex and
instead foster the strategy of zero waste.
This is a note from the Crap campaign on how people should
mark the boundaries on the maps that they have been sent
from the Planning Inspectorate. It is very important that
people return these forms that they have received because
according to last Fridays Argus, Brighton and Hove Council
have ruled out the four sewage sites in Brighton and Hove
including Ovingdean.
We do not want Southern water to look again at Portobello.
If people prefer they can put the boundary further down
to the beach - please see the map below. But the Boundary
marked on the map was the one we were given at the Public
Consultation. The Countryside Commission very undemocratically,
moved it back to north of the A259 AFTER THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION.
Southern water apparently lobbied to get the boundary moved
to exclude the cliffs.
FORMS MUST BE RETURNED TO DEFRA BY THE JULY 4TH DEADLINE.
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