Waste depot rears its head

THE residents of Yiewsley and West Drayton and the Gazette need to be made aware that the London Hillingdon Borough Council (HBC) are seemingly being less than honest since in Gazette (issue 7.3.18) under HBC’s own list of planning applications there clearly appeared an application on behalf of HBC itself for a change of use to the Old Coal Depot, Tavistock Road, Yiewsley to convert a large section of land into a waste recycling facility including a trade waste recycling unit for the collection, sorting and storage of industrial waste material.

Open to all comers for ten hours every weekday and eight hours each Saturday and Sunday.

Less than honest in that our local councillors were never forewarned of HBC’s intentions. Plus the period for presenting objections was posted in the March 7th issue of the Gazette ending 2 weeks later on March 28th, unusually short.

I am puzzled that HBC after a vigorous and persistent rejection of Powerday’s applications to build a Waste Recycling Plant on this same plot HBC should now try to do the same, to keep it for themselves.

A retrograde step in the light that the aim of Mr Puddifoot, leader of HBC, is to put ‘residents first,’ and bearing in mind the residents’ protests over Powerday and the book of 4,000 protest signatures.

In all sincerity I ask HBC’s planning committee, who once stood up in a public meeting and unanimously voted down a Powerday application, together with the body of the whole council to give the residents of Yiewsley and West Drayton what you promised – a clean green Change of Use solution to lay to rest the bogey of the Old Coal Depot, Yiewsley.

Dr Don Griffiths

local resident