Date published: 2006/09/25
The Cambridge Evening News says:
Villagers are rallying round to fight plans for a waste site.
While residents of Trumpington are celebrating the news councillors are expected to turn down plans to put a household waste recycling and transfer centre on Glebe Farm, people living in Hauxton are horrified.
A petition signed by 229 residents, collected in just two days, has now been handed in to Cambridgeshire County Council.
Villagers heard about plans to put the centre on a former waste water treatment works just days before the initial decision to go ahead and consult the public was made.
The council's development control committee heeded local concerns and asked officers to go back to the drawing board. But now Coun John Reynolds, cabinet member for environment and community services, has said he plans to recommend the Hauxton site over Glebe Farm when the cabinet meets tomorrow (Tuesday, 26 September).
Hauxton Parish Council has voted unanimously to oppose the plans due to concerns about transport, safety, damage to the green belt, the scheme's cost and detrimental effect on recreation space.
The council said arguments made against putting the recycling centre in Glebe Farm also apply to Hauxton because houses are planned for land east of the A10.
The treatment plant, which formed part of the Bayer factory, was used to clean chemicals and is currently reached by a road which goes through the middle of playing fields.
The factory's sports and social club used the space for a cricket pitch, tennis court and bowling green and villagers desperately want to hold on to their play space.
They do not want rubbish lorries trundling across it.
Surprise, surprise. Nobody wants a "recycling centre" (i.e. a dump) next door to their houses. The people of Trumpington have managed to convince the county council to go elsewhere, and so the poor people of Hauxton have been chosen to be the ones to suffer. Needless to say, they will not be compensated in any way, which is the real problem.
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