North Yorkshire County Council confirmed that it has received an application for the ‘Allerton Waste Recovery Park’.
The application is currently going through basic checking, so it is not yet possible to send objections.
However it is vital that we get this application examined at public inquiry. Only the Planning Inspectorate has the objectivity to give this application a fair hearing. A Planning Inspector can question the need for a development, including such factors as the predicted recycling rates. This happened in the case of the Sinfin Lane incinerator in Derby, where the inspector found that the 70% targets being suggested by campaigners were unjustly ruled out.
Information on how to object will be on this site as soon as the application is accepted by the Council. Keep checking back here. See also the press release from our sister group, NYWAG.
In other news, the Council’s grand launch for Zero Waste York appears to have been scaled back to a “Sustainable Food Day”, perhaps indicating that the ‘new broom’ Labour administration may not be as committed to the idea after all.
