West London Waste Plan: Consultation meetings on 'Proposed Sites and Policies' Document - last chance on 10 March!

It is important [the NLWP says] that local people have their say in the development of the West London Waste Plan. The new planning system [which is now under review; use the forwarding link to National Archives] emphasises the importance of involving people at an early stage in developing planning documents.

Consultation on Proposed Sites and Policies Document

The Proposed Sites and Policies Document is available here. Copies are also available in all borough libraries and main council offices. It puts forward potential new sites for waste recycling and processing in west London. It also includes policies for controlling their impact on the environment and local communities

The consultation on the document will run from 9th February to 25th March 2011. Send your comments to: consultation@wlwp.net

You can have your say on the document by:

• Coming along to one of the drop-in sessions:

Brent: 28th February 2011, 1pm-8pm, Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre, Brentfield, Harrow Road, London NW10 0RG Ealing: 8th March 2011, 1pm-8pm, Priory Community Centre, Acton Lane, Acton, W3 8NY Harrow: 18th February 2011, 2pm-8pm, Committee Room 5, Harrow Civic Centre, Civic 1, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2XY Hillingdon: 10th March 2011, 1pm-8pm, Botwell Library, East Avenue, Hayes, UB3 2HW (map) Hounslow: 1st March 2011, 1pm-8pm, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, TW3 4DN Richmond upon Thames: 3rd March 2011, 1pm-8pm, Atrium of the Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham

• Completing an online questionnaire:

To complete a short questionnaire covering key issues, click here

To complete a more technical questionnaire, click here

• Sending your views in writing:

If you prefer, questionnaires can be completed by hand and posted to us or handed in at one of the drop-in sessions. To download the short questionnaire, click here. To download the technical questionnaire, click here.

Questionnaires which have been completed by hand and all other correspondence should be sent to:

West London Waste Plan Consultation
CAG Consultants
Gordon House
6 Lissenden Gardens
London NW5 1LX

Issues and Options Consultation 2009

 

The first stage of the process was looking at the issues and options for dealing with waste in West London. A summary report on the consultation held in 2009 is available. Click here to view the report.

Notes from the consultation meetings can be viewed here:

Brent
Ealing
Harrow
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Richmond upon Thames
Ealing Friends of the Earth meeting

"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the Glen, ..."

Place West London: "Barnet says no to Brent Cross Light Rail"

Link to Place West London

"The extensive network for the light railway has been proposed by London's Better Transport Group. It would, they say, mitigate the massive traffic impact of the 'Brent Cross Cricklewood' plans. These could produce an extra 133,000 people and 29,000 extra vehicles travelling into the area each weekday."

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Related news in Brent:

15 March: Boris Question Time

Link to Borisweb

Comments on the Localism Bill

Link above to cartoonist Steve Bell at The Guardian,
or to the Minister of State here, or a critical commentary here.

New Green Jobs in West London?

Air Pollution in West London

Link to The Guardian

"His frustrations with the Labour government over its failure to act has been compounded by the Tory-led coalition. He believes it attempted to 'mislead' the European Commission in September, on the scale of breaches on dangerous particles, known as PM10s."

Independent on Sunday: "Carrier bags 'not eco-villains after all' "

Link to 'Independent on Sunday'

"A draft report by the Environment Agency, obtained by the 'Independent on Sunday', has found that ordinary high-density polythene (HDPE) bags used by shops are actually greener than supposedly low-impact choices."

Biogas future: "Nigel, don't go up on that AD digester roof! Nigel! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" (Tumpty-tum, te-tumpty-tum; tumpty-tum, ...)

Link to 'Anaerobic Digestion News' web site

"The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association predicts that 1,000 anaerobic digestion biogas plants will be built in the next five years, at a cost of £5 billion, mostly funded by the private sector.

"We are currently way behind many of our EU counterparts when it comes to AD - it's embarrassing really. There are two main opportunities, either

• farm-scale, self-sufficient in feedstock [like on BBC's 'The Archers'], or
• commercial-scale, handling external feedstock such as food waste."

 

North London Waste Authority proposal in Haringey: "I wouldn't go in there till the air has cleared, if I were you." (Ricky Tomlinson as Jim in 'The Royle Family')

EXPLOSION!

(click above, then read pages 10 and 11 of 'AD & Biogas News')

"A biogas plant is not 'plug and go': you feed it carefully, you nurse it when it is not well and, most importantly, you must know what to do when something goes wrong."

"Safety issues ... include risk of explosion, confined space asphyxiation, hydrogen sulphide poisoning, gas poisoning, and risk of accidents."
 

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Link to another explosion.

And this week's guest publication is 'AD & Biogas News'. And the first quotation is: "Can you ********** smell ***********************?"

Link to the aforementioned

"Defra's Anaerobic Digestion Framework Document should agree a delivery plan for achieving the Coalition Government's commitment to a 'huge increase' in AD.

"It will also look at what barriers exist, and how these can be broken down." [Presumably anaerobically.]

(Posted here better late than never): "Campaigners Lobby MPs inside House of Commons, as Experts Warn of Incineration Dangers"

Click above for UKWIN site, or "Read more" if shown on left

ENVIRONMENTAL groups opposing new incinerators in London took their fight to the House of Commons on Tuesday of last week. (Where 'last week' was a long time ago.)


Together with invited MPs, they heard leading waste experts spell out the dangers of incinerators, like at Brent Cross, and the arguments for a “zero waste” alternative. (Mike Freer, local MP for Finchley and Golders Green, failed to attend.)

Stopping the South London Incinerator!

Link above to Sarf of the River

"The only technology not on the table is an 'old fashioned mass-burn incinerator' "

Attempt to put the willies up another waste authority

(Thanks to Pinkham Way Incinerator web site)

Taken from lengthy email...

... Yesterday posted a request to the Audit Commission to investigate the whole history of Essex County Council's handling of their waste strategy, et al. I also asked NAO to investigate Defra's role in the matter. Attached is my submission which, you will note, echoes a number of the threads in UKWIN's recent submission to Defra.

See how the North London Waste Authority is consulting...

Link to the Friern Barnet web site

Link to 'Worried of Haringey'

The Independent: "Recycling centre blaze causes roads chaos"

Link to Independent

"Fire broke out among 1,000 tonnes of waste at Huntingdon Recycling Centre in Ellington, Cambridgeshire.

"Residents who are affected by the smoke are advised to stay indoors and keep doors and windows closed."

Consultation, February 2011: See how 'North London Waste Authority' does things:

Link to Friern Barnet residents...

Brent: Freecycle it! (Other boroughs to follow)

Link to information page

"The Brent Freecycle group is open to all who want to 'recycle' that special something rather than throw it away."

The Independent: "Shop until you stop"

Link to The Independent

"We each account for somewhere between 15 and 35 tons of basic resources each year (minerals, chemicals, timber, food, fuel). This is the stuff behind our stuff, sourced partly at home, but increasingly from beyond our shores. Woefully little of this is returned to the economy – more than half, maybe as much as two-thirds, gets written off as waste."

BBC: "Man dies and another hurt in Rotherham plant explosion"

Update: video released

Link to BBC web site

"South Yorkshire Police said a waste incinerator had exploded, creating a hole in the factory's wall."

Link to Sterecycle web site

"We plan to have at least 6 plants operational by 2013 including in Yorkshire, Wales, London and Glasgow."

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Link to another explosion.

Independent: "Eighty Giant Furnaces"

Link to The Independent

"But with further capacity for 1.2 million tonnes of waste-burning already planned, the industry is not having it all its own way – despite the backing of business leaders including the CBI, which earlier this year urged councils to bury their objections to building new incinerators."

"Vehement opposition comes from environmentalists, who claim that incinerators contribute to greenhouse gases and discourage councils from meeting more ambitious recycling goals. 

The Independent:
Michael McCarthy commentary

The Independent:
"Chancellor opposes waste disposal on his doorstep"

WLWA: "Share your leftover recipes and win a prize"

Mmm, click me

"... All you need to do is send in a recipe for either a starter, main meal or desert using at least two items of leftovers from your Christmas dinner. 

"A panel of judges will then pick the tastiest recipe that uses leftovers most creatively."

Guardian: "Climate Change Committee wants emissions cut 60% by 2030"

"The CCC's carbon budgets are intended to reflect the levels of cuts required internationally to avoid dangerous climate change, often defined as a rise of more than 2C above pre-industrial temperatures.

"Chris Huhne, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, said:

"We know that the status quo will not be enough to cut carbon. We will formally respond to the report in spring next year."

 (Courtesy: 'Brent Cross Coalition')

WLWP Timetable

The West London Waste Plan (cunning, or otherwise) is behind schedule, but key milestones for the contractors are:

BBC West Mids ('Inside Out', 1 Nov.): "Incinerators: less waste to burn?"