FROME Town Council has said that it intends to respond to the Environment Agency’s consultation regarding the proposed Westbury incinerator.
Northacre Renewable Energy (NREL), who have proposed to build a traditional ‘energy from waste’ incinerator, has applied to the Environment Agency for an environmental permit to burn non-hazardous waste.
The town council, who in September last year objected to NREL’s planning application to build the incinerator, will discuss and decide their formal response to the Environment Agency’s consultation at their planning committee meeting on Thursday 28th January.
At a recent planning committee meeting, where the ongoing consultation was noted, town councillors raised concerns about the technology proposed to be used by NREL, which is considered to be U-turn on their previously approved application to build a gasification plant, using ‘greener’ incinerating technology.
The closing date for responses to the consultation has recently extended to Sunday 21st February.
A decision by Wiltshire Council about NREL’s planning application is expected in the near future.
In their planning objection last year, Frome town councillors raised concerns about the additional HGV vehicles moving through Frome 24 hours-a-day and the associated pollution caused; the toxins produced by the incinerator that will drift towards Frome on the prevailing south-west wind; the production of greenhouse gases; and how the incinerator does not sit within the town council’s declared ‘Climate Emergency’.
For more information about the Environment Agency’s consultation, visit the https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk /psc/ba13-4we-northacre-renewable-energy-limited/
