Council votes to remove
Mountfield from Waste Local Plan
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Mountfield - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
7 Dec 2004
Mountfield Heritage Group claims victory in its 5-year fight.
East Sussex County Council today voted, on a show of hands, to accept the
recommendation of it cabinet and its officers, and remove Mountfield as a
proposed site for an MRF (waste-sorting plant) and EfW (incinerator site). in
the Waste Local Plan.
This represented a victory for the people of Mountfield, Netherfield, Battle
and many surrounding villages, who would have seen waste transported by lorry
into the middle of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, to be incinerated at a
plant with a 100m (320 foot) chimney.
The Mountfield Heritage Group has been fighting the inclusion of Mountfield
in the plan since 1999. Funds were raised to have Mountfield represented
by a leading barrister and planning expert at the Public Inquiry which took
place during 2003.
A spokesperson for the Mountfield Heritage Group said "Huge amounts of
time and money have been spent fighting something which a responsible council
should never have tried to do in the first place. We do not want anyone to
have to have an incinerator near them. The council should massively
increase its recycling targets, the government should legislate to control the
production of waste in the first place, and the council should use technology
other than incineration to deal with waste."
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