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Chesterfield and Dronfield - Say NO to the Sheepbridge Incinerator
Chesterfield and Dronfield - Say NO to the Sheepbridge Incinerator

In July 2008, a Welsh-based company, Cyclamax submitted a planning application to Derbyshire County Council to build a hazardous waste incinerator/gasification plant on Dunston Road in Chesterfield (across the road from Dunston Hall Garden Centre) – just 2 miles from Dronfield and 4 miles from Sheffield!
Local residents and business owners are alarmed and concerned about these plans.
ACT NOW – Derbyshire County Council are expected to make a decision on the application on the 22nd February – this is our last chance to object!

They will be burning hazardous waste - accepting 75,000 tonnes of hazardous and non-hazardous types of commercial waste each year - around 17% of this will be recycled and the rest - at least 80%, will be burnt in the incinerator.
Unfiltered emissions: The gasification plant will have a main flue of 21 metres and 3 emergency flues/bypass vents that can let out completely unfiltered emissions – all this on the opposite side of the valley to where the EcoDome (Center Parcs type development) will be built.

Importing waste from a 30 mile radius: including Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire and South Sheffield. One HGV every 10 minutes on unsuitable local roads, delivering wastes including oil spills, machining sludges, plastics, tyres, bitumen, construction, demolition and medical waste. The incinerator in Sheffield is already running under-capacity – why do we need another one?

Discourages recycling: - operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Efforts to recycle industrial and commercial waste will be discouraged. Incinerators need waste like in paper, kitchen and garden waste and plastic (which could & should be recycled) to maintain their high temperatures.
There is no ‘magic incinerator’ that can make thousands of tonnes of rubbish disappear: The high temperature process converts waste into millions of tiny particles (nano-particulates) which are currently unregulated.

Potentially dangerous emissions are expected to cover a radius of 5 miles (19 schools and 30,000 residents are within just 2 miles). We will be breathing in nano–particulates which pass through lung membrane to blood stream, into cell tissues and though the blood brain barrier. They contain toxic substances like toxic metals, including dioxins and furans. Cyclamax admit there will be hospitalisations!

Negative impact on the local economy - many nearby existing, ‘clean’ businesses (on Sheepbridge, the Bridge Business Centre and Dunston Road) have said they’ll move away and others will certainly not expand in the area. Businesses have already put expansion plans on hold. The area will become undesirable for business owners, house buyers and tourists, devaluing both homes and businesses.

SIGN THE PETITION - ACT NOW AND HAVE YOUR SAY

Express your views directly, in a letter or e-mail to Kevin Finn, the case officer at Derbyshire County Council (quoting ref CW2/0708/56). Write now before it is too late:-
kevin.finn@derbyshire.gov.uk - Kevin Finn, Derbyshire County Council, Shand House, Dale Road South, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3RY.
Also express your concerns to your local / county councillors – their contact details are all on our website
Contact the campaign group: 01246 453 770 or julie@dunstonlodge.com

Visit our website www.againstincineration.org.uk