Local council slams waste plant plans
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Cambuslang Community Council have joined their counterparts in Halfway in opposing a proposed waste treatment plant.
The group have written to South Lanarkshire Council outlining their concerns over the Whistleberry Road site in Blantyre.
The development has the potential to impact residents because emissions are expected to spread across a sixmile radius. It has asobeen opposed by Gerard Killen MP and Clare Haughey MSP.
Cambuslang CC claim inadequate consideration has been given to alternative schemes and there will be a lack of integrated, efficient energy coming from the waste plant.
They also believe SLC’s expertise and experience pertinent to the proposed development are not presented.
David Thomson, chair of Cambuslang Community Council, reckons insufficient details were provided on the actual waste treatment technologies that the development will employ. He addressed the letter to Pauline Elliott, head of planning and building standards, and said: “Cambuslang Main Street is situated approximately seven kilometres to the northwest of the Whistleberry Road site.
“Many people in our community have expressed concerns about the potentially harmful impact this development might have upon the health and general well-being of our community and that of our neighbours closer to the development site.”
Clean Power Properties submitted a planning application for an energy recovery centre earlier this year.
It seeks permission to build a materials recovery plant and advanced thermal treatment facility with an integrated education and visitor centre.
The proposed chimney stack is almost four times the height of the stack proposed by the developer in their failed 2013 submission – 1.5 times higher than Hamilton’s county buildings.
Hundreds of objections have been lodged with South Lanarkshire Council against the proposal.
An online petition has gained more than 2,500 signatures.