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Say No to the Proposed Newhaven Incinerator!
Latest five news stories
| Date Posted |
News |
| 08 Aug 2008 |
Email Environment AgencyThe Environment Agency is inviting comments in relation to the proposed Newhaven incinerator Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit, and we encourage you to make your views known. To help you we have put a letter generator online. Please make your submissions before 20 August 2008. |
| 19 Jul 2008 |
DOVE River Walk, every Sunday The walk is scheduled to take place every Sunday, We have an A5 flyer and full details.
DOVE member Cat Fletcher is organising a River Walk in opposition to the proposed Newhaven incinerator. The walk starts at 10am on Sunday 20th July at the Recreation Ground in Newhaven. Click here for full details. |
| 18 Jul 2008 |
Climate Camp come to NewhavenClimate Camp will be travelling along the South Coast and up to Kingsnorth in Medway, Kent via a human caravan that will be travelling by foot and public transport, bike, float and boat, including veggie oil recycled vehicles. They will have events during the day and on some nights they will be camping overnight. They will traverse this distance over 9 days, arriving at Climate Camp, which will be at the Kingsnorth Coal fired Power Station. Climate Camp web address:
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/home?q=node/52 Weblog:
http://stopincinerationnownetwork.wordpress.com |
| 17 Jul 2008 |
High Court action, please come along!There will be a Judicial Review aimed at quashing the Incinerator Planning permission at the Royal Courts of Justice on the 21st and 22nd of July starting at 10:30 am on Monday the 21st. COURT 3, Before MR JUSTICE SULLIVAN, Monday 21 July, 2008.
CO/1360/2008 The Queen on the application of Dove 2000 Limited v East Sussex County Council.
CO/1304/2008 The Queen on the application of Lewes District Friends Of The Earth Ltd v East Sussex County Council. We are providing a coach for people wanting to go. It's a 49 seater coach leaving on Monday 21st July departing at 0730, pick up point Sainsbury Newhaven. The coach will leave London at 1630hrs. Price £10 to be booked and paid in advance through Carla Butler. A District Councillor is providing the coach for no profit. It will be advertised in the Argus and Sussex Express too. Carla Butler is the organiser for this, she can be contacted on 01273 510 368. We believe that children under 14 are not allowed into the court room. The Royal Courts of Justice are on the Strand WC2. The nearest underground stations are Temple on the District and Circle lines, Holborn on the Central and Piccadilly lines and Chancery Lane on the Central Line. Click here for a map. Bus numbers 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76, 172, and 341 stop outside the RCJ. Bus numbers 1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, 521 and X68 stop on Kingsway and Aldwych. Go to www.tfl.gov.uk for more detailed travel information. If you have a disabled badge, you can park by prior arrangement, giving 24 hours notice. You need to fax the details of your name, car registration number, disabled badge number and the Court number you are attending to 020 7947 6622. This enables them to arrange parking in the car park closest to the Court. If you cannot fax, then you can ring on 020 7947 6506 to enquire on procedure. There are parking meters in Lincolns Inn Fields and Maltravers St. The nearest NCP car park is in Shoe Lane (off New Fetter Lane), with additional ones at Drury Lane and Holborn. People arriving at the court should look for the case Dove 2000 Ltd and Newhaven Town Council V East Sussex County Council CO/360/08. |
| 16 Jul 2008 |
DOVE holds a successful Open MeetingIt was a well attended open public meeting with approximately 100 people representing Newhaven, Seaford, Bishopstone, Piddinghoe/ surrounding areas and Brighton. There was representation from the local Councillors and political organisations. Newhaven Police sent along a uniformed officer to attend and listen to the feelings of the People.
It was a lively informative meeting, the outcome of which was the clear message that the Incinerator is far from a 'done deal' and the fight to seek justice and stop the incinerator is definitely alive and moving forward.
There were a lot of proactive and good ideas from the floor for fund raising and getting the 'word out' to the wider community, Dove hope to co-ordinate with the members and move these forward.
Dove thanks all who attended and shared their ideas and expertise. Dove with the continued support of the members are committed to stop this out dated method of Incineration and make sure that the wider community have a voice, are not ignored by East Sussex County Council & Brighton City Council and their elected (decision making) Councillors.
If anyone has any further contributions to make by way of finance, time giving or fundraising ideas please email these to the webmaster of Dove. |
East Sussex County Council and Brighton and Hove City Council have
adopted a combined plan to deal with the waste from East Sussex. The
plan proposes building a waste incinerator in Newhaven.
Incineration doesn't make sense on any
level. Incineration does not solve the waste problem nor make the waste
disappear. It merely releases dangerous toxins into the atmosphere and
concentrates all the remaining hazardous materials into toxic ash which
has to be disposed of. This is usually landfilled, mixed in with
construction materials which then become toxic themselves or by other
means but it cannot be safely disposed of. There are proven safer and
ultimately cheaper alternatives to waste management that have been implemented
successfully elsewhere. A zero waste strategy based upon these ideas has
been sent to the councils.
When the first draft of the Waste Local Plan was put on public
deposit, record numbers of people objected and forced a public enquiry.
DOVE made representations throughout the enquiry and the Inspector
produced his report.
The report accepts almost all of the points raised by DOVE and the
Inspector has
made many recommendations that call the plan into question. The Councils
have now proposed a modified version of the Waste Local Plan but this
revised
plan ignores the majority of the inspector's recommendation. We believe
the Councils are behaving arrogantly and undemocratically in sweeping
his findings aside and call on them to uphold the inspector's
recommendations.
The modified plan was put on public deposit until 24th March 2005 and thousands wrote
in to register their objections. East Sussex County Council have now (September 2005)
processed each
letter and form and registered each individual point of objection. They claim that
they will take these objections into consideration when they decide whether to modify
the Waste Local Plan, to adopt the Waste Local Plan or to call for another public enquiry.
DOVE will, of course, oppose both the adoption of the Waste Local Plan and the Planning
Application for an incinerator. Massive support for us from members of the public may
well be required in the run-up to Christmas.
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