St. Dennis Parish Council

 

CORNWALL WASTE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK.

RESPONSE OF ST DENNIS PARISH COUNCIL.

The St Dennis Parish Council has considered the Waste Development Framework documents and its response is in two parts.

The first part is a summary of the Parish Council’s view on the documents generally and the second part is a detailed response to the County Council’s Preferred Options Report and Sustainability Appraisal.

PART 1. SUMMARY.

  1. The Parish Council acknowledge that the County Council faces a difficult problem in the management of waste in the light of the diminishing landfill capacity and Government policy.
  2. The Parish Council totally support the representations made by Restormel Borough Council to the County Council on this issue.
  3. The Parish Council do not support the case for a single incinerator in Cornwall or the choice of the area for a site in Central Cornwall.The Council take the view that the provision of one incinerator for the County does not comply with the proximity principle of waste being dealt with as near as possible to its source,a principle which has been evident in all the County Council publications regarding waste disposal.
  4. The Parish Council consider that the Parkandillick site named as a possible location for an incinerator is wholly unacceptable for the reasons given in the detailed comments attached to this summary and not least for the sheer disregard of local people and their environment.
  5. The Waste Development Framework documents do not provide any details of the financial consideration given to the various options open to the County Council.
  6. The Parish Council think that the mass incinerator option proposed by the County Council is premature and could harm the development of alternative methods of waste disposal.
  7. The Parish Council support the idea of waste minimisation through recycling and reuse and would not wish to support any solution which could reduce this initiative.
  8. The Parish Council support the idea of a number of smaller facilities throughout the County.(‘Small is Beautiful’- Schumacher).Smaller EfW plants are in operation in the UK and proving to be equally effective.(IoMan 65ktonnes).
  9. The Parish Council feels so strongly on this issue that they will be pressing as hard as possible for a Public Inquiry to be held.

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