Questions over site for waste facility

IWOULD just like to question the Veolia spokeswoman’s comments in regard to the refused waste facility site in Halebank.

She suggested that the site was specifically chosen to avoid inconvenience to the local community.

Obviously this lady as never visited this site.

To access this site you have to drive along Hale Road passing through the main residential area of Halebank with houses on both sides of the road in most cases only feet from peoples front doors.

These residents already suffer the highest number of HGVs travelling through a residential area in Halton – on the council’s own figures, 1,200 every 24 hours (2005).

In 2002 a survey funded by Halton Council and carried out by Lancaster University rated Halebank with the second highest traffic pollution in the whole of Halton.

In 2005 Halton Council commissioned a report about traffic problems in Halebank at great expense to the taxpayers of Halton (The Atkins Report).

The report made quite a few recommendations, the main one was a relief road to take the Traffic off Hale Road.

And that HGVs should not enter the Pickering Road Estate via Hale Rd.

Not one of these recommendations was acted upon. Another waste of taxpayers’ money.

In finishing, this company that wants to avoid inconvenience to the local community has never to my knowledge spoken to the residents or the parish council face to face.

In fact this so-called good neighbour objected to the parish council getting a protected cost ruling at the recent judicial review.