Planning decision due on 23 November
Powerday plc have submitted plans to build what is expected to be the largest waste facility in the UK. The proposed site is adjacent to a residential conservation area, in the north of Hammersmith Borough, on the border with Ealing Borough.
On Wednesday local residents and councillors demonstrated on the steps of Ealing Town Hall, before the Planning Committee met to discuss the proposed plan and its impact on the local community. Ealing Council rejected the proposal on the grounds that 'adverse noise impacts are likely to harm the living conditions of residents'. The developers have made no attempts to mitigate noise levels from train loading just 50m from residents' bedroom windows.
Hammersmith Borough have the final say in whether this development go ahead. The application is currently set to go to Hammersmith Council's Planning Committee on 23 November and despite Ealing's recommendation, Hammersmith's Planning Department are recommending approval of this development.
It is vital that all those who object to such a large-scale industrial development in the Borough attend the planned demonstration at Hammersmith Council's Planning Committee meeting (provisional date 23 November - to be confirmed). Without continued local opposition this highly flawed development may go ahead.
A spokesperson for The Island Triangle Residents Association (TITRA) said: "The main processing building is massive and will loom over our neighbourhood. All the 200 homes in our small community would fit inside the main processing building"
Cllrs Philip Portwood and Paul Woodgate, of Ealing Council, are backing the residents' campaign. "I have consistently opposed this proposal as it is wholly inappropriate as it is so close to residential homes'. "We want to encourage recycling but this area is not all industrial and is only a few hundred metres from peoples homes."
November 14, 2004
| About the development | |
| · Planning consultants suggest that this would be the UK's largest waste recycling facility. · 1.6 million tonnes or approximately 9.5% of London's waste would arrive at this site from all over London and beyond by lorry, train and barge. · 24 hour a day operation · 500 articulated lorries would access the site twenty-four hours a day from Scrubs Lane, north of White City · Huge increase in traffic congestion on Scrubs Lane and the surrounding area, 24% increase in HGVs on one stretch · The proposed closure of Scrubs Lane for up to 2 years for maintenance work would exacerbate traffic congestion · Scrubs Lane is on the boundary of the proposed westward extension of the congestion charge zone - traffic would therefore increase from those avoiding the charge · On site crushing of demolition rubble · Shredding and chipping of materials such as tyres and wood · Particulates and dust would engulf the area · Noisy train loading of dusty aggregates 50m from residents' bedroom windows · Scale: Main processing building is massive at 160m long, 45m wide and 19.5m high · Main building does not meet the GLA's design criteria, however they say this doesnt matter as the development falls within an industrial zone (residential area completely ignored) |
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