County Councillor Response to Minerals and Waste Preferred Options Consultation
The Minerals and Waste Plan must state that 65,000 West Norfolk residents voted No to incineration in the Borough Poll and that Norfolk County Council has had a No Incineration in Norfolk Policy since Council's Motion of December 2014. People campaigned for 5 years to stop the incinerator in South Lynn and are outraged that incineration is still in the Plan.
The people's will must be respected.
The Plan must also state that fracking, and prospecting for fracking, will not be permitted in West Norfolk or around the Wash, as prospecting causes earthquakes and tremors. It is contradictory to say that prospecting for shale gas would only be allowed where there are no unacceptable environmental impacts. Around the UK prospectingalways causes unacceptable environmental impacts, and fracking notably caused a recent earthquake of 2.9 on the Richter scale at the UK's only active fracking site, in Blackpool, which saw its third record-breaking earthquake in under a week this August, breaking through a limit which made the government ban fracking for two years in 2011.

The National Planning Policy for Waste accepts that incineration can be excluded from a local plan at Page 6, where it says that "proposals such as incinerators that cut across up-to-date Local Plans reflecting the vision and aspiration of local communities can give rise to justifiable frustration".

The National Planning Policy for Waste says, at page 4, that there should be "early and meaningful engagement with local communities and plans shouldreflect a collective vision and agreed set of priorities, recognising that proposals for... incinerators can be controversial"

How can the Inspector not agree with these words of wisdom?