Cardiff Council re-issues Applications for Viridor Incinerator

Cardiff Council re-issues Applications for Viridor Incinerator

Applications issued in July to settle the planning pre-conditions were stalled due to substantial objections from CATI have just been re-issued for 21-day consultation (see ref. 10/00149/E onhttp://planning.cardiff.gov.uk/online-applications/). The Council’s consultants, Atkins, accepted that CATI’s objections are correct over the incinerator bottom ash being potentially hazardous so that the planned processing into building aggregate is excluded, but Viridor have not answered.  CATI’s objection over likely flooding of the site is also conceded – Viridor’s agents say they will store storm water in “low lying external site areas”  - but they propose no changes to meet the limits on discharges to sewer and overflows. 

CATI (Cardiff Against The Incinerator) says that Cardiff Council should now be obliged to halt Viridor’s unauthorised construction of the incinerator.  In July they promised “robust enforcement” against building before Conditions on the planning permission had been finalised, now let’s see it, says Max Wallis of CATI.