Trafford Labour Calls for an Extraordinary Council Meeting about BREP Decision
Councillor David Acton, Leader of Trafford Labour Group said, ” Eric Pickles has made an appalling decision which flies in the face of thousands of local people who live in Trafford.”
The Trafford Labour Group has called for an Extraordinary Council Meeting (Date TBC) to discuss the Motion set out below.
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MOTION PUT FORWARD BY TRAFFORD LABOUR
The Council condemns the decision made by the Conservative Government Secretary of State in overruling this Council’s unanimous decision to refuse planning permission for the development of a Biomass Incineration Plant in Davyhulme.
This Conservative Government decision flies in the face of the Thousands of local people who have campaigned against and opposed this Incineration plant. The decision runs contrary to the definition of “Localism” and believes any notion of local democracy and the strong wishes of our community.
In light of the above Trafford Council agrees to appeal the decision of the Secretary of State through the Court.
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I hope the following request made under the Freedom of Information Act will help expose the inappropriate way that the Planning Inspectorate dismiss health concerns at public inquiries.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/instructions_to_inspectors_after/new
I’ve made three important requests under FoI from the Office for National Statistics to see what happened to the rates of infant deaths, stillbirths, and low birthweight live births in the London Borough of Newham after SELCHP incinerator started in 1993.
The rates of all three rose after SELCHP started up.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/FOI/foi-requests/health-and-social-care/infant-mortality-rates-in-the/index.html
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/FOI/foi-requests/population/stillbirth-rates-1965—2010/index.html
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/FOI/foi-requests/population/percentages-of-low-birthweight-babies–london-boroughs–1965-to-2011/index.html
Here’s graph of rates in Boroughs of Newham, Lewisham (home to SELCHP), Tower Hamlets, and Wandsworth. Wandsworth rarely gets emissions from SELCHP – unlike the other 3 Boroughs.
http://ukhr.eu/incineration/selchp.htm