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Tockwith incinerator plan rejected

12:56pm Tuesday 15th December 2009


CONTROVERSIAL plans for a large incinerator in Tockwith have been rejected.

North Yorkshire County Council's planning committee has thrown out the proposals unanimously, following widespread local opposition.

The multi-million-pound plant would have used state-ofthe-art treatment to process up to 60,000 tonnes of waste and help prevent landfill, generating enough energy to power about 10,000 homes.

Locals said they beleived the plant, planned for Marston Business Park, would damage their health, but developer BCB said it was safe.

Councillors upheld their planning officers' advice and rejected the application.

Hundreds of residents attended today's planning meeting in Northallerton to voice their concerns.

See The Press on Wednesday for more on this story.


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sciencefan, York says...
1:06pm Tue 15 Dec 09

Well, I hope they have good reasoning based on science, approved local and government policy and law. Because if all they have is prejudice and unsubstantiated claims by residents then they will get ripped to shreds at appeal, which you can be sure BCB will do. And then there is the award of costs....

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interzone, tockwith says...
2:10pm Tue 15 Dec 09

It's extremely disrespectful of the democratic planning process and the council in general to suggest they work on "prejudice" and "unsubstantiated claims." This was the wrong technology in the worng location, unanimously thrown out by two councils now. If you want to be alarmist, remember that the vast majority of rejected planning applications are again rejected at appeal. And yes, then there is the award of costs...

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Zetkin, York says...
2:53pm Tue 15 Dec 09

If the rejection was based upon prejudice and unsubstantiated claims, I'm sure the owners of BCB will step forward and volunteer to build this wholly-benevolent development in their own back yards.

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The Cat Amongst The Pigeons, Ye Olde Citee of Yorke says...
8:09pm Tue 15 Dec 09

Well personally I think its a great laff!

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Mister Sheen, York says...
8:47pm Tue 15 Dec 09

This follows on from last week's story of the planning officers' report rejecting the application on the grounds of BCB's modus operandi of hooking the plant up to the national grid. It had nothing to do with the level of local protest (apparently!) or emissions levels. If this goes to appeal, with a revised proposal, it could well go through.

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sun seeker's, acomb york says...
10:20pm Tue 15 Dec 09

Apparently, 10,000 homes could be powered by the building of this plant. I bet if BCB oferred free electricity to those protesting, they'd soon change their tune!

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interzone, tockwith says...
11:18pm Tue 15 Dec 09

Wrong. Our health, our childen's health and our environment will not be bought off by free electricity or anything else. I like many would rather go without power than take it off BCB

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sun seeker's, acomb york says...
7:55pm Wed 16 Dec 09

interzone wrote:
Wrong. Our health, our childen's health and our environment will not be bought off by free electricity or anything else. I like many would rather go without power than take it off BCB
You might find that your childrens children children will have to go without electricity! When other resources finally run out, and they are all sat in the dark, thinking to themselves "if only there was a way of producing electricity buy burning waste products". "Oh, there is a way, but everybody complained, so it was never tried".
Back to the "stone age" then!

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interzone, tockwith says...
4:51pm Mon 21 Dec 09

In your vision I think our children's children would be thinking 'Why did they build that here and give us cancer and ruin our environment?'
The future is in green power and recycling, not polluting, dangerous incineration.

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