Waste plant firm drops planning appeal but is still targeting city site
THE company behind a controversial waste treatment site in Derby says it is committed to building the plant and aims to submit revised plans next year.
Cyclamax yesterday withdrew its appeal against a decision by Derby City Council to refuse planning permission for its commercial plant on Raynesway.
The plans were rejected by the council in March this year and a public inquiry was due to be held next March. That will now no longer go ahead.
The news prompted celebrations from campaigners who said it marked a victory against "gasification" – a technology which uses heats to break down waste and produce a gas.
But Rick Twomey, technical director of Cyclamax Resource Parks, said the withdrawal did not mean the end of the company's plans.
He said: "Due to a redesign required to accommodate all the activities envisaged for the Raynesway Resource Park, Cyclamax has decided to withdraw the planning appeal. But it is still committed to Raynesway Resource Park and will explore submitting a new revised planning application in 2011."
Simon Bacon of campaign group SSAIN – Sinfin, Spondon Against Incineration – said it was still a small victory against the company.
"If Cyclamax do come back with other proposals we will be ready to fight them again. It will be costly for them to have to go away and draw up new plans and this is still positive news for us."
Mr Bacon said he also believed Cyclamax's decision may have been influenced by a planning inspector last month who rejected a similar appeal by Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS).
It wanted to build a waste treatment plant using gasification technology in Sinfin to deal with household waste from the county. .
The main grounds for the inspector refusing that appeal was the impact it would have on traffic around Sinfin Lane.
However, the inspector, Ruth MacKenzie, also encouraged councils to look at other methods of treating waste. The city and county councils said they were still reviewing their options with RRS.
Mr Bacon said: "There were rumours at that time that if RRS lost its appeal then Cyclamax would withdraw theirs because it does set a sort of precedent if one incinerator has been refused."
Alvaston ward councillors Alan Graves and Paul Bayliss welcomed the withdrawal of the appeal.
But Mr Bayliss said he was "apprehensive" about what proposals Cyclamax could return with.
3 Comments
by peter, spondon
Saturday, December 11 2010, 11:31AM
“cyclamax .being clever .asked ssain are they fighting them at the appeal .simon our spokesperson smelt a rat .so said no .stop were going to be rule six party main group . the reason was .ssainderby .at this stage did not want cyclamax to know ,what fresh evidence members of ssain had gathered against them .ssains members then could each go indevidually .say a piece each .and shoot cyclamax and thier top lawyers down .in flames / simon had no intention of giving them his knowledge up front like the sinfin appeal to get caught unaware by crafty lawyers .,.cyclamax expected ssain to be the main party .as they were at the sinfin appeal .and have all the documentaion ./hard luck cyclamax .simon and the team had thought that out too”
by peter, spondon
Saturday, December 11 2010, 11:29AM
“cyclamax .being clever .asked ssain are they fighting them at the appeal .simon our spokesperson smelt a rat .so said no .stop were going to be rule six party main group . the reason was .ssainderby .at this stage did not want cyclamax to know ,what fresh evidence members of ssain had gathered against them .ssains members then could each go indevidually .say a piece each .and shoot cyclamax and thier top lawyers down .in flames / simon had no intention of giving them his knowledge up front like the sinfin appeal to get caught unaware by crafty lawyers .,.cyclamax expected ssain to be the main party .as they were at the sinfin appeal .and have all the documentaion ./hard luck cyclamax .simon and the team had thought that out too”
by peter ambler, spondon
Saturday, December 11 2010, 11:17AM
“it is good news ,but always look deeper .this company are commited to this site ,.thier scttish plant is a complete failure .172 breeches in 6 month ,the national grid have not had any electricty in a year from it .it has to have refuse from shanks ,inorder to keep it burning.shanks own rrs ,derby city council signed a £27m contract with ,it stinks .also goodmans own the site .which is nearly finnished ,they had a big breakfast promotion ,in order to lure prospective buyers to the rest of the site .i attended unwelcomed .as i had banners warning .business men about the planned incinerator ,they attempted to throw me off the site ,.but decided to surround my vehicle with pickup trucks .to hide my banners ,causing more of a scene ,i still got free and drove around , they pleaded with me not to carry on saying they were only trying to sell plots .to businesses .not being told about an incinerator ..so they think they can withdraw from the appeal and come back .after the rest of the land has been sold ..ssain has this already thought out .we are watching every move .also ive info .councils are putting incinerators on hold till after the local elections .orders from above ,.dont worry cyclamax weve info coming in daily .derby have had enough of pollution .greedy companies like you have no qualms who gets cancers .or heart and lung dieses .youve all been chased out of other countries .stay out of the uk .”