Suffolk County Council has been consulting about five sites it is proposing for waste disposal. Two of these are located in Great Blakenham.  I am concerned that the roads are not adequate to carry extra traffic from SnOasis and the planned new housing developments in the area, let alone two new waste sites.  I have asked the District Council to look at this and can’t see why they don’t have a realistic plan for the area.  The other sites are at Sproughton, Stanton and Eye where protest groups are forming.

The County has declared that its preference is to site an incinerator at Great Blakenham to burn domestic waste. I think that the long term effect on people’s health from chimney stack emissions cause grave concern.  I favour Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT), which is becoming the technology of choice in the UK.  This involves several flexible and adaptable operations. After mechanical sorting, anaerobic digestion is used to process the biodegradable waste producing gas which generates electricity efficiently.  Metals recovered in the sorting process can be re-cycled.

Please let me have your views.

The County position can still be changed. Planning consent for a mass burn incinerator in Surrey is to be quashed following a hearing in the High Court in January 2009.