Worried Residents Make their Voices Heard at Covanta Protest
After speaking in the first session of the Infrastructure Planning Commission's 'Open Floor Hearings' being held this week on...
8 Jul 2011
National News
4,000 green-field houses given go-ahead for North Chelmsford
4,000 houses on green fields to the North West and North East of Chelmsford have been given the OK. The long-awaited report from a Government-appointed inspector has backed the plans by Conservative-run Chelmsford council.
8 Jul 2011
Farron celebrates Ambleside campus victory!
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has celebrated a major victory after the University of Cumbria decided at their council meeting yesterday that they would bring students back to the campus after a long running campaign to save the site.
8 Jul 2011
Compost site threat returns
A planning application for a compost site between Fenny Drayton and Higham on the Hill has been submitted to Leicestershire County Council.
7 Jul 2011
Government confirm to MP that Cumbria will get £16.8 million boost for rural broadband
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has today received confirmation from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport that Cumbria has been allocated indicative funding of £16.8 million towards the costs of the rural broadband project.
7 Jul 2011
'Wrong on All Counts:' My Comments to the Open Floor Hearing on the Covanta Incinerator Plan for Stewartby
Yesterday I spoke at the first session of the open-floor hearings being conducted by the Infrastructure Planning Commission on the application by US waste giant Covanta Energy to build a 600,000 tonne capacity incinerator at Rookery South pit near Stewartby. As I have explained previously, I have not been involved in the Council's formal submissions to the application process being conducted by the IPC, having received a warning letter from lawyers for Covanta. They had noticed that, like so many residents of this area, I am opposed to the principle of us being established as a magnet for lorries bringing waste from areas far and wide for burning using an environmentally damaging waste technology in the form of incineration. Indeed, I have campaigned against these abominable plans since they were published, well before I became Mayor. Not wanting to place the Council at any risk, I have instead taken part in the process as an individual, and did so again at the hearing yesterday.
6 Jul 2011
