MP: 'Incinerator should be in Devonport'
DEVONPORT should be home to any planned energy from waste incinerator, MP Gary Streeter has told a public meeting in Ivybridge.
More than a hundred people attend the meeting, aimed at coordinating opposition to a proposed incinerator near the town. Mr Streeter told a packed hall at the Watermark Centre that he was not opposed to waste incineration, but did not believe it should be done at New England Quarry, where waste company Viridor hopes to build its energy from waste plant.
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Gary Streeter
Mr Streeter, the Conservative MP for South West Devon, said: "This is about the community coming together to defeat something we basically don't want."
He described the proposed plant there as a "brown donut plonked down in the middle of the South Hams," and urged people to write individual letters of objection to the plant on planning grounds.
The South West Devon Waste Partnership is considering plans by three companies – MVV Umwelt, SITA UK and Viridor – to build a £100million incinerator at one of four sites: New England Quarry, Ernesettle, South Yard and North Yard at Devonport.
The incinerator would handle all remaining domestic rubbish from Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon, after recycling had taken place.
Viridor says its plan would provide jobs and could produce enough energy to power around 45,000 homes. The company has said it will go ahead with the facility at New England Quarry even if it is not chosen by the Waste Partnership and hopes to submit a planning application to Devon County Council this month.
Final tenders for the waste partnership contract will be invited late next year, and the incinerator contract will be awarded in 2011.
During the meeting yesterday evening, Mr Streeter said the New England Quarry proposal would cause an "entirely unacceptable" increase in lorries on the road through Lee Mill, and that the two proposals at Devonport Dockyard and Naval Base were better.
"There are already large buildings there [in Devonport] and nobody will notice something like this," he said.
"The heat could be used and I can envisage in 10 years' time waste being brought there by sea."
Following Mr Streeter's presentation, the meeting was opened up for questions and statements from the public.
Sparkwell parish councillor Sally Fairman said: "We told Viridor that using the road through Lee Mill was just not an option.
"That road has developed into a narrow road that takes more traffic than was envisaged."
Mrs Fairman said that if the incinerator at New England Quarry was built, a lorry would be driving through Lee Mill every six minutes, affecting the lives, homes and livelihoods of residents.
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by Concerned, Plymouth
Saturday, June 19 2010, 11:31PM
“Tell you what MR. streeter let's stick it in your back Garden We have enough crap to deal with from Nuclear waste and God knows what else thanks to you lot”
by Dawn, Weston Mill
Monday, February 22 2010, 6:27PM
“Please get it right the incinerator is not going in Devonport, it is going in the Devonport Dockyard, it is actually going at the entrance to the Dockyard by Camels Head just behind the Honda/Jet garages. Gary Streeters comments of 'it would look like a big brown doughnout plonked in the middle of South Hams' is a joke, talk about not in my backyard, at least the opposition in our area is coming up with other suggestions,”
by graham, stoke
Thursday, December 17 2009, 10:48PM
“so i guess ud be more than happy to have it outside ur front door then sounds like a plan to me sorry its not on a postcard though”
by Mike, Plymouth
Wednesday, December 16 2009, 3:14PM
“I wish people would look at teh facts before shouting their mouths off. The whole country has a waste problem. We have no where to put the stuff and no one wants to recycle properly. even the stuff we recycle we ship out for processing. Incinerator technology has come a long way in teh past 10 years, and are very tightly regulated. Any sign of significant pollution will mean the site will be shut.
it's easy for people to say not in my back yard, but it's not so easy for them to come up with an alternative solution.
answers on a postcard folks...”
by graham, stoke
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 9:46PM
“why in gods name would we want an Incinerator in devonport its bad enough we are the only city in britan leicenced to have nuke subs mothballed (one sub mothballed had an £8bn re-fit 2 years befor) but now u want to shove an Incinerator here i know what u can do with it gary boy. we can campain for it not to be here but 1)were would it go and 2) the penny pinching tight fisted moronic **** ***** speak up now people. oh and andy id rather live in devonport than a tin pot COUNTRY like cornwall”
by andy cornwall, cornwall
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 8:29PM
“stick it in devonport, I used to live there bloody horrible place, itd fit in just fine with the drab grey eyesore of a dockyard and naval base. Thank god I moved out of that pushole of an area lol”
by Paul, devonport
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 7:48PM
“you mps and councillors are one big useless perk chasing bunch of morons. oh yes lets turn devonport into the nuclear and garbage dump of the county nah even the country. we are you listening losers do not want them here. we want clean air u n d e r s t a n d clean air. we have a god given right to it and demand it. we spend years and millions regenerating devonport turning it into somwhere for a change we want to live. so why oh! why here. you gutless bunch can go home to your homes paid for by us taxpayers no doubt. and live in a nice air clean area, but want to do this to us. i say GET LOST. leave us alone and give us mps who care thats if you can find one that is. PEOPLE OF DEVONPORT STAND UP AND FIGHT.”
by rubydog, south hams
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 5:04PM
“If the people of Plymouth where better at recycling only (20%) South Hams (52%) then the need for any Incinerator in any location would not be necessary having said that 80% of the waste for this old technology will come from Plymouth. Oh and mike from Plymstock why dont you come over and have a look at the 885 mw Power station pumping out 4 million tons of CO2 every year that we have had dumped on our doorstep, sorry no pun intended.”
by Anne, Ivybridge
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 4:21PM
“Gary your opinion on where the incinerator should be is not the same as the people of Ivybridge - we don't want it anywhere in Devon, Lee Mill, Ernesettle or Devonport. We don't want an incineraor and thats what we said at the meeting.
This headline is just one person's opinion, not the opinion of the people of Ivybridge.”
by Mike, Plymstock
Tuesday, December 15 2009, 1:33PM
“Even thought I live in GS's constituency this is nimbyism of the worst kind. Why should the labour voting areas of Plymouth have all of the unwanted developments”