The City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council are to consider if a new waste management facility could be built at Glinton, on a site between the Gas Compressor Station and the Werrington Parkway.
Proposed Waste Site Location
Thrapston-based land agents, Bletsoe and Sons have submitted the site to the ‘site allocation’ process, which forms part of the new planning system that will set out where new waste management facilities may be built until 2021.
Bletsoe’s have submitted few details of the proposal, and simply described it as a ‘Waste Management Facility’.
The Tribune has spoken to the agents, who said the site will sort commercial and industrial waste into piles for recycling or disposal and these operations will be screened from view by banks and trees.
Although it is planned that the waste would lie in the open, the Tribune understands that new legislation will require the waste materials to be covered.
Residents in Lincoln Road and Waterworks Lane have written to their local MP and city councillor’s to voice their objection to the site. While supporting recycling, they are concerned that it’s location, on a greenfield rural site, in open countryside, will have a detrimental effect on nearby homes and will be built next to the major hazard of the gas compressor station.
Questions have also been raised about the need for such a site given that the city council has just backed plans for Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited (PREL) to build a new commercial and industrial waste facility in Fengate, while also embarking on its own municipal energy from waste plant.
The result of the submission by Bletsoe will not be known until later this year, if the site is put forward as a preferred option we will have another opportunity to comment early in 2010.
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