Plans for a huge waste plant at Pinkham Way are back

An urgent message from the chair of the Pinkham Way Alliance has been circulated:

HERE WE GO AGAIN...

I’m very sorry to have to inform you that plans for a huge waste plant at Pinkham Way are back.

This is a very serious turn of events, and on Tuesday 14 July, we must briefly attend a council meeting in Wood Green to let Haringey know how angry we are.

ANOTHER WASTE PLANT?!

Barnet Council aims to relocate its 6-acre Cricklewood Waste Transfer Station (WTS) to the PW site, working again with the North London Waste Authority (NLWA).

Any plant handling black-bag waste can have major problems with odour and fly infestations.

WTS facilities are a particular fire risk. Statistics show that, between 2011 and 2013, there was a fire at a UK WTS almost every three days. And Barnet’s would be directly adjacent both to the A406 and to the East Coast Main Line. Just the place then.

The number of daily lorry movements will approach that of the previous, abandoned waste plant proposal, on one of the most polluted and congested road stretches in London, whose problems result, as we know too well, in regular traffic saturation on local roads.

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?

As ever, the planning policy underlying the situation is complex. But the shabby manoeuvrings of Haringey and of some of the North London Waste Plan (NLWP) officers and advisers are dismally familiar.

I’ll be in touch again soon to give you more detail. If you want to know more now, you can read about it on our website.

WE MUST BE THERE IN FORCE ON TUE 14 JULY

If permitted, I’ll be addressing the senior Haringey politicians briefly at the start of their cabinet meeting, on Tuesday 14 July, 6.30pm, Haringey Civic Centre, Wood Green, N22 8LE.

The Haringey cabinet is on the verge of making key decisions about the future of Pinkham Way. Without question, we must fill the public gallery and more.

My speech will be short; your visit will be over in barely half-an-hour. Please put the date in your diary, and let your friends and neighbours know.

Kind regards,

Stephen Brice
Chair
Pinkham Way Alliance

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Permalink Reply by karl brown on June 26, 2015 at 13:19

Stephen refers in his letter to the latest version of the North London Waste Plan (NLWP). The draft version of this, currently being reviewed by Councils prior to public consultation, highlights existing waste capacity in the North London sub-region, ie us, of 3.7 million tonnes. It also highlights the waste generated in our North London sub-region as being 2.4 million tonnes. You would perhaps expect that this 50%+ capacity headroom to be adequate. Even worse for this story is that under the London-wide net self sufficiency requirement, the GLA Apportionment, our sub region is tasked with managing only something like 85% of our waste to ensure the London Region's overall targeted needs are satisfied, ie not the full 2.4 million tonnes. And the current capacity figure is before the incremental capacity now being requested at Edmonton (up a further 150,000 tonnes pa on top of the 3.7 million.)

Oh, and before any plans for Pinkham Way.

It's a complex area but sometimes a simple picture can make you stop and think.

A summary of my own input to the current Edmonton consultation is attached. I'm not convinced about that part of the overall waste picture either.

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