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- Martin - 27-Sep-2007
quote:
£15M cost of waste plant fight
A legal battle against a waste processing plant in Leyland could cost taxpayers more than £15million because of delays to the starting of the project.
Lancashire County Council faced legal action from local objectors' group Resident Against Waste Site (RAWS) after granting permission to itself and co-developers Global Renewables for the plant at the former Leyland Vehicles test track.
Mr Justice Irwin, at the High Court in London, threw out the appeal last week. RAWS will now decide whether to take the case to the Court of Appeal.
http://www.prestoncitizen.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1717258.0.15m_cost_of_waste_plant_fight.php
- noel - 28-Aug-2008
How on earth did the council manage to agree to siting the unit so close to reesidential homes? I used to live on Bispham Avenue 30 years ago and we had pleasangt views of Winter Hill in the distance. Now they have a giant building blocking their views. It beggars belief.
http://www.leyland-guardian.co.uk/leyland/39Lives-devastated-by-horror39.4431471.jp
- Spitfire - 28-Aug-2008
At the bottom of our garden there is a tree with a preservation order on it. We are ordered not to `Lop or Chop`, under the pain of death. Despite requests we are told that these preservation orders are set in stone.
How then were orders overturned on (I think) about 18 on this new site? Rules for some and different rules for the rest of us.
- noel - 28-Aug-2008
My wife always says it's "back pocket" stuff Jim. It does make you wonder.
- LDunlop76 - 29-Aug-2008
From that photo, the new "facility" does seem very close to people's homes. I'd be pig sick if I lived there.
- noel - 29-Aug-2008
I went past today Linda, it looks horrendous. On the other side it stretches back the equivalent of 6 football fields. There are going to be 400 wagons a day entering and leaving, it beggars belief how any sane person could grant planning permission. Thank heaven we moved away.
- LDunlop76 - 30-Aug-2008
400 wagons a day? So close to people's homes? I can't imagine many councillors live on that street!
- noel - 30-Aug-2008
I'm just hoping I can get a job there Linda.[
] (joking, but I could do with one somewhere)
- noel - 03-Sep-2008
Now to add further insult to the residents, Global Solutions and co developers Lancashire County Council have applied to build 6 45 foot wind turbines. In addition Lancs Council have refused to buy houses off disillusioned residents in Bispham Avenue, saying it "wasn't lawful".
- anacortesdamp - 03-Sep-2008
Noel:
We haven't been back to Leyland for several years, so I missed out on the definition of where the plant was being built. I just looked on Google Earth, and I see what I assume is the old Leyland Motors Spurrier works, alongside the railway and a large undeveloped area between there and Bispham Avenue. Is that where the recycle plant was built? Will the truck traffic be coming off Stanifield Lane and along Centurion Way or have they put a link through the Flensburg Way?
Sound like there's going to be some lawsuits on this one. I hope you have some lawyers over there who work on contingency (no win, no fee).
Frank