Why have there been no fines for breaches?
CAN the chief planners from Plymouth City Council planning department, who prepared the incinerator planning report, actually explain why MVV are not being fined for breaches of their planning conditions?
Surely this should have been put in place, as part of the planning conditions, they would be fined if they caused breeches. Seems that this has been overlooked.
Residents yet again treated as second class citizens.
A report from a local resident who had a report from an independent noise expert stated that monitoring should be done all the time, yet this has been clearly overlooked by those who wrote the final planning report.
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Now where are the public health protection agency and the environmental agency after all they said they would monitor closely.
That's an understatement! Who do they represent? Certainly not the public?
Perhaps the planning officers, councillors, press and those who were then on the planning committee that voted it through should spend a day in the homes of those who are effected the most and who have to put up with this daily.
There are plenty of videos from the residents available to view on YouTube and the iww facebook page. Work has began again and these residents now have other noisy machinery to content with.
How come the residents' human rights are not being looked after and totally ignored? If this is happening now what will it be like when they need to monitor emissions from the chimney? Plymouth why are we having this built here?
S Clark
ST BUDEAUX
Comments
by Winstonsmith0
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 2:40PM
“Breaches? With MVV on a 21 day 'warning' over past breaches and having given an undertaking to improve the use and siting of the 'acoustic barriers' that sound so impressive (it's a 6 foot high bit of garden fence panel to ordinary people) I have yet to see any improvements. All I see is noisy rigs with no acoustic barriers between me and them as usual. Same old same old!
Yesterday, I received a letter from Ms Jane Ford, mouthpiece for MVV. It's like reading some propaganda that might have been dropped on allied troops in Tripoli during the war - mind numbing propaganda telling those who can look out from their windows and see differently, that everything is sunshine and roses.
No mention of noise, no mention of noise abatement issues or early starting and late working, or of the heavy diesel-laden air that ocals are now forced to breathe every day. Diesel that causes cancer, of course (not that it would ever be mentioned either). Oh no; instead we are told of the 'basking area' that local creatures will be able to enjoy - that's is a patch of shrubbery cleared to ground level, to you and me. We are told the tree planting is running a bit late for one reason or another (could it be more effort is being put into destroying the lives of local residents?).
No mention of how or why so much site spoil has been dumped into an area of Blackies Wood shown as remaining untouched on the site plans yet every mention of the need to dig up part of the existing woodland to create the 'swale' - a cunning way of giving a new name to a route allowing all the dirty water from the site to run away. Water floods there already, now, but with nowhere to go it just drowns the trees instead.
Oh, and a tiny 'please-don't-notice-this' reference in the letter to the 'revision' of the designs for Savage road land - the area of land used for decades as a kick around patch by locals soon to become . . . a walled off controlled access kick around patch for locals (a gift from MVV).
What I have learned about 'design revisions' thus far from MVV is that it always favours their ends and not those of locals. If PCC ever had the dangly assets they should have, in order to do the right thing for Plymouth, then they would have used all of these 'revisions' to stop the projects by just saying "NO". Instead, to me, it appears they have some kind of inside awareness of what they can get away with or have 'signed off' as a revision without ANY reference back to the democratic planning committee.
With so many alterations and amendments in the past 12 months, I truly wonder if those councillors who voted in favour of the original application would now still do so. Or would they consider the changes unacceptable and say no?
In Exeter, councillors recently revoked a planning decision long after it had been taken by the, then, Tory council. The now Labour majority planning committee simply decided to re-vote their own way. Now there's a thought Tudor!
Here in Plymouth, so far three restaurants will be creating around four times the number of jobs the incinerator will ever manage. But we in Plymouth get to welcome waste of all types from all over Devon and beyond and even keep all the ash by-products as a matter of regulations. It doesn't exactly make the city somewhere people might want to visit does it?
Unless you want to see a tower crane that is the height of the building itself and can now be seen from all over.
Oh, and this official 'good neighbour' letter from MVV? Dated 4th January - but not delivered until YESTERDAY - 14th January.
Hands up anyone who is surprised.
Ah, the true face of business!”
by LHPlymouth
Monday, January 14 2013, 1:36PM
“Well said!!
Breaches were mentioned at October 18th planning meeting and then PCC let MVV carry on for another couple of months.....and then issue a contravention notice. Too late!!
May as well tear up the planning application and approval as it's not worth the paoer its written on especially if conditions not adhered to, not actioned when breached and are 'modified' to suit MVV.
I found some documents over the weekend for a number of existing incinerators around the country and their emission reports. The scary thing is that they had all breached but excuses were made and no action taken (sounds familiar).......a warning for the future for all of Plymouth!!
About time someone was representing and speaking up for the people instead of pandering to a German company who will make a massive profit and take it out of this country.
The seven who voted to this, sit at planning meetings looking smug but they should get out there now and see and hear it for themselves and they should be ashamed of THEIR Nimbyism!!”