How you can help stop the incinerator.

Timing is key to objecting so please check here regularly to know dates and action required as the situation unfolds. Please ignore speculation that the fight is over as the councils can no longer afford a thermal treatment plant. The planning process still needs fighting this spring with the related PFI contract decision due in the summer.
NOW - Object in writing to the planning dept quoting reference 09/02430/WAS. Further details in a post below. Help friends, neighbours and family to object. Stay in the loop by either checking this blog, joining Wincham Post on facebook, or email us so we have your email address.
May - To show our strength of feeling we need as many as possible of us to fill the public gallery when the application is decided by the Strategic Planning Committee, generally either in Winsford or Chester. Usually held at 4pm. We will advise when this is as soon as we know, and help co-ordinate transport. Only one or two of us will be able to speak.
sid.cw9@gmail.com. SID Chair Geoff Eden 07989 520202. Parish Cllr Linda Moss 07773 913009.

Saturday 21 November 2009

Contact councillors at Cheshire West and Chester

Write to our councillors explaining your concerns and asking them for their support.

Click here to find your three local councillors

Click here for details of the 11 councillors on the Strategic Planning Committee This is the committee who will make the decision on the planning application in Feb/Mar 2010.

If you wish to raise awareness of the impact RRS would have on all of us who work or live in Wincham and the surrounding communities below are the email addresses for all the councillors in CWAC. Ideal if you only have time to send one email.

Please share in the comments box points you make to our councillors and also let us know who you get positive or negative feedback from.

brian.anderson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, gareth.anderson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, kimberley.anderson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, brian.bailey@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, bob.barton@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, derek.bateman@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, don.beckett@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, kate.birtwistle@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, terry.birtwistle@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, keith.board@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, pam.booher@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, malcolm.byram@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, lynn.clare@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, brian.clarke@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, angela.claydon@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, linda.cooper@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, bob.crompton@cheshire.gov.uk, brian.crowe@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, razia.daniels@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, andrew.dawson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, hugo.deynem@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, paul.donovan@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, brenda.dowding@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, max.drury@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, john.ebo@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, les.ford@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, malcolm.gaskill@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, john.grimshaw@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, pamela.hall@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, arthur.harada@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, myles.hogg@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, jill.houlbrook@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, mark.ingram@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, eleanor.johnson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, mike.jones@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, reggie.jones@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, kay.loch@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, pat.lott@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, richard.lowe@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, justin.madders@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, herbert.manley@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, jan.mashlan@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, simon.mcdonald@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, alan.mckie@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, hilarie.mcnae@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, scott.mealor@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, pat.merrick@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, george.miller@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, keith.musgrave@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, andrew.needham@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, marie.nelson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, ralph.oultram@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, stuart.parker@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, charlie.parkinson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, tom.parry@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, lynn.riley@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, neil.ritchie@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, barbara.roberts@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, tony.sherlock@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, richard.short@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, graham.smith@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, mark.stocks@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, andrew.storrar@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, alex.tate@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, robert.thompson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, adrian.walmsley@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, helen.weltman@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, mark.williams@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, keith.wilson@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, ann.wright@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk, norman.wright@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
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3 comments:

  1. An action group ...23 November 2009 at 00:35

    I am horrified to hear Cheshire West and Chester council are allowing Wincham to be considered the destination of all Cheshire's waste.

    Can you explain to me how Wincham came to be selected as one of the preferred bidders, especially as the site was not marked as suitable for thermal treatment?... Read more

    Can you also explain how a company with no experience of burning rubbish is being considered to receive an £850 million contract of our money?

    Is it true that the company that they are using to provide the technology went bankrupt a few years ago? If so, how can this be a safe place for our money?

    Also, can you let me know if it is true that United Utilities have been fined for pollution by the Environment Agency? If so, how can they even be considered competent to manage this very real health risk to our communities?

    I understand that there would be hundreds more large trucks movements on the A559, which is already a hazardous, high collision Red Route. How can this be safe? There will be traffic chaos and Wincham Lane will become a death trap for pedestrians which include school children walking from Lower Wincham to the primary school. On a more personal note, I used to regularly walk along Wincham Lane with my own children, yet wouldn't even consider risking it now with my grand children due to the large trucks going to what is supposed to be a light industrial area. This is before the addition of the largest waste plant of its kind in England.

    I trust I can count on your support. I look forward to answers to my questions and hearing exactly what you are proposing to do to protect Marbury Ward.

    I am worried sick about this threat to my village!

    Yours sincerely

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  2. An action group ...23 November 2009 at 00:36

    Dear Councillor

    Re Proposed Waste Treatment Plant at New Cheshire Business Park, Wincham

    I understand that a planning application, in respect of the above waste treatment plant, is due to be made in the near future. I am writing to you, as you are a Cheshire West and Chester Unitary councillor, to register my absolute objection to these proposals. ... Read more

    Based on all the information currently available through RRS’s own publicity material, articles and letters in the Northwich Guardian and presentations at a recent public meeting there are many reasons to support the fact that these proposals are ill conceived and have no place in the centre of a village community.

    · The transport links through Knutsford, Lostock Gralam, Wincham and all the small villages adjacent to the A559, taking into account the proposed volume of HGV’s, are totally inadequate. It is a fact that the A559 is already designated as a RED route with council money already spent advising motorists of the dangers of this road. Current existing water pressure is poor and the local area blighted by electricity cuts even before the additional needs of the proposed plant.

    · Quality of life will be severely affected. The proposed plant will cause pollution as it will be operational 24/7 so there will be light pollution at night, every night. There will be noise pollution from the influx of HGV’s. There is a health risk as the plant will generate dioxins and furans which have been demonstrated to be a source of cancer and respiratory problems.

    · The proposed site is within 400 metres of numerous homes in the middle of a vibrant, semi rural village and only 850 metres from the village primary school.

    These are just a few of the many reasons these proposals should not go ahead and I would very much welcome your response with an indication of your own personal thoughts on this proposed development.

    Yours sincerely,

    John Barnes

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  3. An action group ...23 November 2009 at 00:37

    Dear Councillor,

    Re Proposed incineration plant in Wincham, Cheshire.

    I'm contacting you to inform you of my strong objection to the use of gasification to deal with household waste and in particutar to the proposed plant at Wincham.... Read more

    Contractors, in this case RRS, portray themselves to be a 'green option' for dealing with waste by saying the method is 'sustainable' and produces 'green energy'. Dealing with waste by destruction, however, can neither be said to be sustainable nor producing renewable energy, which is produced by harnassing energy from natural resources.

    RRS's proposal of a visitor and education centre teaching people about sustainable waste management and 'doing their bit for the environment' appears as an ironic smokescreen, when the plant itself will be causing a vast amount of particle, noise and light pollution, plus extra pollution from the transportation requirements.

    Cheshire West Council is providing recycling services, but needs to concentrate its efforts and finance on reducing waste, especially of non recyclable materials at the manufacturing and packaging level, encouraging the reuse of resources and composting and increasing provision for recycling. The presence of this plant will form a disincentive to both the public and the council, as it will prefer to maintain rather than reduce the amount of waste to make the most of the £850 million committed to RRS, . Please can you explain this wildly expensive backward step in terms of waste management?

    I am also extremely concerned about the health risks to residents and employees in the area around a gasification plant, in this case Wincham and surrounding villages and towns. The process produces heavy metal particles, dioxins, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, mercury, carbon dioxide and furons, which can cause, among other things, neurological disfunctions, cancers, birth defects, behavioural problems and altered sex ratios. Do you want to put your constituents and their children at risk of these health issues?

    Although I don't live in Wincham, I am employed here, and as I work 24 hour shifts I spend almost a quarter of my life here, however I'm not primarily concerned for myself, but those who live here permanently.
    My route to work sometimes uses the A559. This is a narrow and windy road such that the council already warns of its dangers to motorists and the frequency of accidents. It is a totally unsuitable routes for HGVs, please can you explain why this site is being considered when transport links for a substantial part of the waste are unsuitable?

    These are my main reasons why I am against gasification as a means of waste disposal and why I object to this particular proposed plant in Wincham. I look forward to hearing you response to my questions and ask you to do all in your power to stand against this proposal when the planning application is made.

    Yours sincerely, Caroline Vere

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