Friends of the Earth Cardiff Cyfeillion y Ddaear Caerdydd

Viridor Waste Management have submitted a second planning application for a large incinerator or “energy from waste facility” in Cardiff. This application is almost identical to the first one which was rejected by Cardiff Council. The proposed Viridor incinerator would be at Trident Park in Splott, between Ocean Way and the docks. It would burn 350,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Cardiff County Council's planning committee rejected Viridor's first application for a huge, polluting and wasteful incinerator at Trident Park, Glass Avenue, Splott in June 2009. The reason the planning committee gave was that waste would be brought to be burnt in the incinerator from outside the local area.

Viridor submitted an appeal to the National Assembly for Wales against the decision in October 2009. The public inquiry for the appeal will be held in July 2010.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth has several concerns about Viridor's applications for an incinerator in Cardiff.

Anti-incinerator protest planned for planning meeting on 11 March 2009

Members of Cardiff Friends of the Earth are inviting people to join them and other local residents in a demonstration outside Cardiff City Hall at 1.30 pm on Wednesday (11 March), as the council's planning committee rules on proposals for a large waste incinerator in the city.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth have submitted an objection to Viridor's planning application to Cardiff County Council Planning Department.

The objection, compiled for Cardiff Friends of the Earth by the South East Wales Friends of the Earth Waste Group, objects to the planning application on the following grounds:

Haf Elgar (Friends of the Earth Cymru), Councillor Gavin Cox, Heather Webber, Anne Greagsby (Green Santa), Adam Johannes, Jenni Swettenham, Colin Robinson, Julian Rosser, Councillor Martin Holland

Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth.

Cardiff Friends of the Earth gave evidence at the joint environmental and economic scrutiny
committee meeting on the 20th October 2008 on the future plans of St Mary's Street.

We support the full pedestrianisation of the street from the castle junction down to the
junction with Wood Street. This would greatly improve the environment and reduce pollution in the city centre.

Environmental design at the Centre for Alternative Technology

Planning

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• food
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• building materials
• water

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