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Now is the time to make your voice heard
March 2011
WRG have, at long last submitted to BCC their amended planning application for the incinerator at Greatmoor. This means that the consultation about the application has begun. The consultation period ends on 08 April and between now and then it is essential that everyone who wishes to oppose the application makes their feelings & concerns known to the Development Control Committee. In order that we make the biggest possible impact SAVI are aiming for at least 1,000 letters of opposition. It is possible that sufficient opposition could yet win the day. In a similar case decided last year in the high court the judge, in handing down his judgement in favour of the opposition to the application, cited the enormous weight of public opposition to the application as a deciding factor in rejecting the application. So if SAVI have ever needed their loyal & vocal supporters it is now.
What is important is to write & please do it very soon before it gets forgotten or misses the deadline of 08 April.
BCC Cabinet - Have you no shame?
27 January 2011
BCC Cabinet has recently revealed the true cost of the unwanted mass burn waste incinerator (MBI) at over £200 million of ratepayers’ money...
Latest news: Titanic still in harbour for now!
BCC Cabinet were to consider on 17.1.11 the 8 recommendations/questions put to them by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSCC) about the waste procurement decision in favour of Spanish-owned WRG on 29.11.10. The Cabinet have determined that there was insufficient time to consider this matter on the day and have now deferred the decision to 28.2.11 - the OSCC have consented to this (as constitutionally they were required to do) which gives some more time for consideration and reflection. Keep watching this website where we will post more soon.
- Download See the Eight recommendations
(passed by a substantial majority of 7:2 by the OSCC)
Bucks County Council OSCC: Stops the Titanic!!
At today’s (11/1/11) 59th Minute of the 11th hour (per John Bercow MP) Overview and Scrutiny Committee Hearing, Cllr John Cartwright called his witnesses to ask the OSCC to stop the doomed Titanic waste incinerator at Greatmoor farm, North Bucks from setting sail.
His witnesses who gave evidence before the OSCC included John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, Will Kellett representing local parish councils and giving the localism view, Dr Raymond Gemmell of ERAP (ecologist and environmentalist), Helen Howard from SAVI’s legal team and Guy Jackson of Reclaim Resources, which offers a clean green cheaper alternative (less than half the price of the Titanic incinerator).
Plea to Bucks County Council OSCC: Stop the Titanic!!
At tomorrow’s (11/1/11) 11th hour Overview and Scrutiny Committee Hearing, Cllr John Cartwright will call witnesses to ask the OSCC to help bring to a halt the doomed Titanic waste incinerator at Greatmoor farm, North Bucks.
His declared witnesses include John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, members of SAVI’s legal team, Will Kellett representing local parish councils, Dr Raymond Gemmell of ERAP (ecologist and environmentalist), Sir Edmund Verney of Claydon House, and Guy Jackson of Reclaim Resources, which offers a clean green cheaper alternative (less than half the price of the overblown incinerator).
SAVI raises concerns over BCC call in
SAVI asks what are Bucks County Council up to on call-in of waste incinerator decision?
AVDC leader John Cartwright has called in Bucks County Council’s (BCC) Cabinet controversial decision to approve Spanish-owned WRG Ltd to build an expected 300,000 mass burn waste incinerator (MBI) on farmland at Lower Greatmoor farm, Edgcott. The Cabinet’s decision was initially put to the BCC Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 14th December 2010 and a further date for a fuller Scrutiny hearing is now set for 11th January 2011.
STOP PRESS 14TH December 2010 - DECISION CALLED IN
The Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Bucks County Council unanimously vote to call in the appalling cabinet decision in favour of WRG Ltd as preferred bidder for a mass burn incinerator. This means that the calling in, initiated by Cllr John Cartwright, will be heard more fully on a date yet to be confirmed in January 2010. A MASSIVE THANK YOU to all of you who wrote flooding the committee with all your concerns, so well expressed, John Cartwright and Roger Landells who spoke so powerfully today.
Keep watching the website where we will post what action we can next take to bring some commonsense to this whole issue.
TWELVE FINANCIAL QUESTIONS BUCKS COUNTY COUNCIL MUST ANSWER
13 December 2010
Bernwood Forest, Buckinghamshire.
A request for a call in by Cllr John Cartwright is due to be heard before the Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Bucks County Council starting at 2.30pm on Tuesday 14th December. BCC are already seeking to shift the goal posts by only allowing anonymised versions of the numerous representations being put before the Committee as a matter of discretion. If the call in gets approved (some hope!) there may be a further meeting of this committee to look at the reasons in greater depth. SAVI has been approached by many members of the public expressing their concerns about what BCC actually gets out of this appalling decision. SAVI demands answers to its Twelve Questions.
NEW UPDATE: 9/12/10 PARISH COUNCILS UNITE TO FIGHT GREATMOOR INCINERATOR!
At the Waddesdon Local Area Forum (LAF) on the evening of 8/12/10, chaired by County Councillor Michael Edmonds and attended by vice-chair John Cartwright, Arthur Evans from Quainton PC proposed and Ian Metherall from Marsh Gibbon PC seconded a motion that the Forum should contact the chair of the Call-in Review Committee strongly to regret the Incinerator procurement decision and fully support Cllr John Cartwright's request for call-in. This was passed unanimously by representatives of the 15 parishes in the LAF.
Breaking News - Waste Incinerator update - AVDC Leader John Cartwright calls in BCC cabinet decision
7 December 2010
Bernwood Forest, Buckinghamshire.
AVDC leader John Cartwright has called in Bucks County Council’s (BCC) Cabinet controversial decision to approve Spanish-owned WRG Ltd to build an expected 300,000 mass burn waste incinerator (MBI) at Lower Greatmoor farm, Edgcott...
WRG planning application submitted - and REJECTED - in BCC validation process
SAVI understands from Buckinghamshire County Council planning department that WRG's long expected planning application to build an MBI plant at Lower Greatmoor Farm, Edgcott has been submitted AND REJECTED several times during BCC's initial validation process. As at 8th December 2010 it had not been resubmitted by WRG despite its spin doctor PR agency Green Issues telling all concerned that WRG would put in its plans in July 2010 and had put them in October 2010. The ineptness of WRG's actions is yet further cause for concern.
SAVI are also advised that WRG have still FAILED to do the necessary environmental impact assessments (which would take a year to complete) required for their planning application. They have also recently sprung on the populations of the Chilterns their plans for two husge waste transfer station. Councillors in the South of the County are now gearing up to fight the proposals. Councillor Martin King, who represents Amersham old Town on ATC, said: "I will oppose this all the way. There is going to be a horrific amount of traffic."
Don Phillips, who represents Little Chalfont on CDC said the plan "has all the ingredients of a major traffic problem, if not a hazard."
STOP PRESS
SAVI Press Release November 2010.
SAVI slams BCC decision on mass burn incineration
SAVI Press Releases June 2010.
SAVI warns WRG Ltd already in talks with HS2 to provide energy for High Speed Rail link: ‘double jeopardy’ threats to Aylesbury and the Vale
SAVI (Stop Aylesbury Vale Incineration) today warns of immediate threat of mass burn incineration in Bernwood Forest, Vale of Aylesbury
SAVI Press Release Monday 14th September 2009.
At the cabinet meeting of BCC this morning the council selected Covanta Energy as their preferred bidder at the Stewartby site.
A message for all SAVI Supporters
'SAVI supporters, we are so very grateful to you all for the efforts that all of you have gone to in order to support the campaign against mass burn incineration, especially at the Lower Greatmoor Farm site. This decision today by BCC is only the beginning. Covanta still have to acquire planning permission from Bedfordshire county council to build their mass burn incinerator at Stewartby. We are not yet home and dry. For that reason SAVI will continue to exist and to fight MBI, we can only do this successfully with the ongoing help of all our supporters. During this week the SAVI steering group will meet to formulate plans for our ongoing opposition to MBI, please keep watching the website for updates. We strongly urge you to continue to support us, this isn't just about the health, wealth and environment of our immediate vicinity, its national and global. This somewhat hollow victory has been won at the expense of the health and environment of families who live near to the site at Stewartby. We remain convinced that MBI is NOT the answer to our waste issues.'
The Scottish Viewpoint - A Statement by Robin Harper,
20 parish councils have now passed resolutions opposing the waste incinerator/EfW proposals.
These are: Quainton • Marsh Gibbon • Calvert Green • Grendon Underwood • Oakley • Boarstall • Westcott • Swanbourne • Aston Abbotts • Coldharbour • Steeple Claydon • Winslow Town Council • Charndon • Aston Clinton • Buckland • Hillesden • Middle Claydon • Padbury • East Claydon • Stewkley
The Scottish Viewpoint - A Statement by Robin Harper, Green MSP
"The tide is turning in Scotland against mass burn incineration, with unsustainable projects in the Highlands and in East Lothian both rejected just in the last six weeks. This approach to waste is a dead end, one that misses the opportunities from recycling and waste reduction, and I would hope that Buckinghamshire Council realises this before it's too late. Best of luck with the campaign from the Greens in the Scottish Parliament." - Robin Harper, Green MSP
STOP PRESS
Just this afternoon (July 29) we have learned that Buckinghamshire County Council have, yet again, moved the goalposts. The cabinet meeting at which the council intended to confirm the preferred bidder for the mass burn incineration development, originally planned for 13 July, moved to 28 September is now re-scheduled (again) to 14 September. This is when we will learn which of the two remaining bidders, WRG and Lower Greatmoor Farm, Edgcott site or Coventa and Rookery Pit, Stewartby, Bedfordshire site, will be the chosen partner for BCC's mass burn incineration development. Interestingly BCC forgot to consult the public on the Rookery Pit plans until recently.
Time is therefore now tight for SAVI and their supporters to voice opposition in time to influence the cabinet members who will make the decision. All SAVI supporters must now please redouble their efforts to make local councillors aware of our total opposition to these plans. The SAVI CLEAN GREEN RALLY is now arranged for Saturday 12 September. Following a gathering of supporters in Kingsbury Square in Aylesbury at 11 am when the assembly will be addressed by a person of note (yet to be decided) we will then walk the short distance to County Hall and on the steps of that building present the written petition. Local and national press will be in attendance.For more details email Jo Wood. If you want this stopped please come and support us.
BBC Three Counties Interview
"Conservative local authorities not following Conservative policy on waste"
Press Conference - John Bercow - 11th July, Woodlands Barn, Doddershall
Press conference on 11th July with John Bercow highlighting the dangers to the environment of mass burn incineration and the cleaner greener safer alternatives.
SAVI supporters are increasing in number by the day.
In an unprecedented move last week Quainton parish council passed a resolution in which they formally oppose proposals to site an incineration plant at Lower Greatmoor Farm, Edgcott. Marsh Gibbon followed suit at their meeting on Tuesday evening with this resolution passed unanimously, Marsh Gibbon Parish Council opposes the proposal for waste incineration at the Lower Greatmoor Farm site and opposes any further development of the waste processing facilities at the existing site nearby at Calvert.
A number of other brave parish councils look set to follow the lead set by Quainton and Marsh Gibbon. Well done ladies and gentlemen this is truly democracy in action. You are the first tier of representation of the views of the residents in our communities, if the County Council do not wish to listen to SAVI perhaps they will listen to you.
GREENS WIN HOLYROOD VOTE AGAINST
"LANDFILL IN THE SKY"
GREEN MSP MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release 11 June 2009
Parliament today endorsed Green opposition to plans for a new generation of incinerators, now rebranded as "energy from waste" plants. Green MSP Robin Harper brought forward an amendment (1) to this effect to today's Scottish Government motion, and both the amendment and the final motion as amended were passed at Decision Time...
» Download the full Press Release
Irish Government considers introducing incineration tax
Liz Gyekye 19 May 2009
» Full details (third party web site)
SAVI meets Cllr. Martin Tett
at the Clean Green Rally
on Saturday 12th September 2009
Height of incinerator chimney compared to Bucks County Hall building in Aylesbury and a local windmill at Quainton.
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- Do you care about the health of our children and families?
- Do you value your home and our environment?
- Is the rural nature of Aylesbury Vale important?
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