MEP demands incinerator inquiry
GREEN Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has written to Government Office of the South East demanding a full planning inquiry into East Sussex County Council's decision to grant planning permission for a waste incinerator in Newhaven.
Her letter, formally requesting the Government calls-in the decision by the Tory-led council, echoes arguments already made by scores of local campaigners and the group Defenders of the Ouse Valley (DOVE).
Dr Lucas argues the decision should be reversed as a waste incinerator would increase pollution, traffic and greenhouse gas emissions, due to the high number of local objections (over 16,000), due to the adverse impact an incinerator would have on the adjacent South Downs Area of Natural Beauty and because the planning application breaches planning guidance and the agreed local plan.