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Letter: Better site for incinerator
I AM writing to you concerning the proposed site for the incinerator that the council is proposing at Cross Green (‘We don’t want this “dumped” on our doorstep’, YEP, January 25), on the former site of the market off Pontefract Lane.
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I think the proposed site is a mistake. People in my ward, Temple Newsam, will be hugely affected by this incinerator if it goes ahead, not to mention the people who will be living only a quarter of a mile from the site. There’s also a public park very close to the site too that will also be adversely affected.
I am not disputing the need for an incinerator in Leeds. The city needs to come up with alternative solutions to landfill, and the prohibitive costs associated with it, and there’s some refuse that just cannot be recycled – we may as well incinerate it safely and use it to heat homes in Leeds.
However, I think that the administration in Leeds should reconsider the position of the incinerator. Surely a more appropriate site, as I have argued before, would be the former water treatment site in Knostrop that is further away from housing and, being built on a brownfield site, will not cause as much disruption to the local environment.
Councillor BILL HYDE, Conservative, Temple Newsam ward
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Nigel B
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 09:42 AMWe cannot trust a company to burn our rubbish to a temperature that gives us clean air, this project should not go ahead. The councillors we hsave now will just blame the previous lot for bringing it in. The cause of the need for this incinerator is our councils inability to help people recycle. Other Cities recycle much more.
JamesGorman
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 06:58 PMGood luck with that. It's a paradox that I defy Brian Cox to explain that those that recommend these things and the louder and more disruptive they are the further away said parties seem to live. If you plot this effect on a graph it would just be two parralel line to infinity.
tothepoint5
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:12 PMI feel that as there is a lower concentration of the population in North Leeds due to the larger property sizes in comparison to the multi-storey or terraced properties found in East Leeds, fewer people would be affected by any potential health problems associated with the incinerator if anything untoward occurred. Therefore, in the interests of what would benefit the many and not the few, I expect the council to take this on board and shortly announce that they've decided instead to locate the incinerator in either alwoodley, shadwell, bramhope or scarcroft.
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