Power plant plan fuels anger

29 November 2006

Cheshire County Council is to officially object to the Government over plans to build a refuse-derived fuel power plant in the county.
The council said last week it would take the matter to the Department of Trade and Industry in a bid to stop a plant planned for Ince Marshes, capable of generating more than 50 megawatts of electricity.
The proposed power plant is – according to the council – the largest energy-from-waste plant in the UK, and the planning application must be considered by the DTI.
The council has already rejected an application for outline planning permission from Peel Environmental Ince for a resource-recovery park on the site.
Last Thursday, the authority’s executive, as a consulate following consideration of a 30-page report from planning officer, Alan Thornley, unanimously voted to continue to appeal against the site.
The council believes the application breeches regulations relating to development of Cheshire’s estuaries, has an ‘unsustainable’ location with regard to public transport, cycling and walking, and has a potential to prejudice the long-term planning of the area. In his report, Thornley considers the application ‘premature’ while the outcome of the inquiry into the Cheshire Replacement Waste Local Plan remains unknown. He said: ‘To grant permission would predetermine decisions on both the scale and location of the development, and would prejudice the strategy and site allocations of the plan.
‘Measures have not been agreed to accommodate additional traffic movements generated by the proposed development, in particular, to address the concerns of the highway authority.’
Planners also feel the applicants have not provided sufficient information to assess the development’s impacts on unacceptable hazards to life, health or the environment, air pollution, visual intrusion by artificial light or the ecological environment.

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