We need to wake up the the new proposed development on the North Circular.

Giant industrial plant planned for Alexandra ward

In May a Consortium of Barnet Council together with NLWA will be making a major planning application to Haringey Council. The Consortium’s plan is for Barnet to relocate all its refuse collection vehicles from their current site in Barnet , and for NLWA to build a giant black waste reprocessing plant. This will involve about 560 new vehicle movements a day, having to get to the North Circular via the junction on Colney Hatch Lane. Both facilities would be located in the north corner of Alexandra ward in Haringey on the site of the long gone sewage works (now wooded) and just south of the Pinkham Way stretch of the North Circular.

The processing plant itself is likely to be 150 metres long and 20 metres high – visible for miles around, in place of the scrub that has now grown up on the old sewage works site. This is probably the biggest development to take place in the borough for many years, yet most people are unaware that this planning application is pending. I would encourage everybody with an interest in the local area to check out the North London Waste Authority’s website (you are unlikely to find anything about this on Haringey’s) and follow up with a few questions.

Juliet Solomon, Councillor for Alexandra Ward. 88815945

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Permalink Reply by Richard McKeever on February 21, 2011 at 15:06

Thanks for this Juliet - the proposed development has been the subject of a conversation on this forum post on the site. which includes links to the NWLA website, the Barnet website and a community campaign website.

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Permalink Reply by cllr. juliet solomon on February 21, 2011 at 19:33

you are well ahead of the game. I will put all future stuff up on this website.

Juliet Solomon

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Permalink Reply by Laura Davenport on February 21, 2011 at 21:46

I'm just guessing that as NLWA includes-Camden/Hackney/Islington/Barnet/Haringey/Enfield/Waltham that the 560 trucks could come from all directions along A406, taking up the small increase in capacity the Telford Road widening provides.

I think the A406 is still going to provide and Olympic VIP route between Wembley and Olympic village. What a lovely sight for the VIPs, if they are not stuck next to a truck they will have the view of a huge incinerator to enjoy. London at it's best.

Check out the following for more into http://www.pinkhamwayincinerator.blogspot.com/

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Permalink Reply by John on February 22, 2011 at 12:58

You will have to hurry!

The North London Waste Authority pre-application consultation period closes on Friday!

http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/procurement/pinkham_way/pinkham_way_public_e...

but try finding that from the website front page - it is not obvious!

The equivalent Barnet Council consultation period is a lot longer - until next Monday!

http://engage.barnet.gov.uk/environment-and-operations/pinkham_way

You may decide that the document available there is unreadable. It is a copy of the display boards at the exhibition last week. However, printing them on A4 means the text is too small to read. This seems to be worthy of your complaint to them!

The other reason to complain, of course, is the very short consultation period. It ought to be 4 to 6 weeks, with considerable advertising. This is pre-planning application consultation, and your comments will have to be documented in a "Statement of Community Involvement" which applies to all big schemes.

Waiting until the planning application itself appears makes it much harder to challenge any of the assumptions about the need for, or scale of, the development. So seize the moment!

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Permalink Reply by cllr. juliet solomon on February 22, 2011 at 16:03

I have been working on this problem over the last week and it is just possible that extra time will be given to the deadline for the planning application. Various other possible initiatives but won't tempt Fate by mentioning them until they are closer to realisation.

John said:

You will have to hurry!

The North London Waste Authority pre-application consultation period closes on Friday!

http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/procurement/pinkham_way/pinkham_way_public_e...

but try finding that from the website front page - it is not obvious!

The equivalent Barnet Council consultation period is a lot longer - until next Monday!

http://engage.barnet.gov.uk/environment-and-operations/pinkham_way

You may decide that the document available there is unreadable. It is a copy of the display boards at the exhibition last week. However, printing them on A4 means the text is too small to read. This seems to be worthy of your complaint to them!

The other reason to complain, of course, is the very short consultation period. It ought to be 4 to 6 weeks, with considerable advertising. This is pre-planning application consultation, and your comments will have to be documented in a "Statement of Community Involvement" which applies to all big schemes.

Waiting until the planning application itself appears makes it much harder to challenge any of the assumptions about the need for, or scale of, the development. So seize the moment!

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Permalink Reply by John on February 22, 2011 at 16:08

You can try saying to them:

"The very limited time for this pre-application public consultation, with little general advertising and inadequate documentation, is disproportional to the large and complex nature of the project, and clearly leaves you open to judicial review."

And coming from you at the Town Hall, it would make them wobble even more.