Campaign Against Viridor’s Incinerator and Landfill is a group of residents from the local community who have come together to oppose any incinerator and landfill at New England Quarry.

CAVIL includes the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, UKIP and Labour Parties as well as representatives of the local councils, voluntary groups as well as individuals who oppose the incinerator.

Viridor have now submitted their planning application for an incinerator and landfill at New England Quarry. This will affect everyone in this area.

We need your help to stop the incinerator

Devon County Council’s planning committee will now consider Viridor’s application.

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/environmentplanning/planning-system/planning_applications-mw/planning_applications/newenglandefw.htm

Local residents and businesses are able to voice their opinions on the proposed development by sending their views to the committee.  We need as many people as possible to send in objections to the planning committee to help stop the incinerator and landfill getting planning permission.

How you can help stop the incinerator?

The Planning Committee will only take into account planning reasons for opposing the incinerator. You may feel angry about the potential loss in value to your house if the incinerator goes ahead, but such arguments are not taken into consideration as valid planning objections.  We have compiled a list of ten reasons that you could use in opposing the planning application. You will need to put these reasons into your own words and include your full name and address for your views to be considered.

1. Impact on local roads and the A38 - 120 extra trucks will go through Lee Mill every day as a minimum, and that's not including construction traffic.
2. Negative visual impact - The incinerator's chimney will be seen from miles around and will be a massive 100m tall.
3. Impact on health - The prevailing wind will blow any toxic emissions and particulates onto Lee Mill and Ivybridge and further afield. Start up and shut down times as well as any times of malfunction would likely release  large amounts of pollution including dioxins. There are also concerns regarding the damaging effects of nanoparticles which cannot be filtered out.
4. Flooding - The proposed site is on the floodplain of the River Yealm. We are worried that the toxic bottom ash could pose a threat to the Yealm and its estuary.
5. Wrongly identified site - We have concerns that the council wrongly identified the New England Quarry as a site for incineration in November 2005 and overlooked better sites and technologies.
6. Habitat impacts - The emissions, dioxins, and ash that is high in metals, will have long-term effects on our local agriculture, animals, fish and shellfish.
7. Carbon dioxide - The incinerator will emit 17 tonnes of C02 every hour for its 25 year life span. We want to find a more sustainable way of dealing with our waste.
8. Waste of energy - The incinerator is supposed to generate heat for local homes but there are none near enough to the incinerator to benefit, so the heat will be wasted. In addition, far more energy could be saved by instead further improving our recycling.
9. Impact on tourism - A polluting incinerator and landfill on our doorsteps will put off tourists who cherish our clean, green environment, although Viridor think it will be a visitor attraction!
10. Lack of proper consultation by Viridor - The local community has not been properly consulted by Viridor regarding the plans. Viridor's consultation has been cosmetic and not genuinely trying to engage the community.

There are two ways to send your views to the council – you can email your objection to the council or you can write and post your objection.

Via Email:

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Via Post:

Mrs S Penaluna
Planning Officer
Devon County Council
ABG Lucombe House
County Hall
Exeter EX2 4QW 

You can find out more at our PUBLIC MEETING at Ivybridge Community College at 2.30pm on Saturday 13 March.
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