One of largest industrial waste sites in Europe coming to Muswell Hill

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 27, 2011 at 14:12

That's the spot with all the abandoned cars that you can see on Google Maps. Yes, much better to put this kind of thing over in Northumberland Park where the residents seldom get their way.

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Permalink Reply by Nigel Lupton (luptonn) on March 27, 2011 at 15:43

I think this is the spot: http://goo.gl/EXXsi

 

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 27, 2011 at 17:34

Yup, great access to the North Circular. I can't see a problem.

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on March 27, 2011 at 20:15

Great spot just as long as NWLA ensure the hard working staff staff don't get hit by a wayward golf ball. NWLA or the golf club will need to think about putting up some sort of safety fence otherwise  I may have to make a complaint.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on April 7, 2011 at 0:26

An article in the Advertiser this week claims:

the plant could attract as many as 560 daily vehicle movements – roughly equivalent to two miles of vehicles both in and out of the junction

How many more lorries up Lausanne every day John? You may find that 'their' problem is also yours.

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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin on March 27, 2011 at 22:51

From Gerry Platt on our Facebook Page:

 

I hope they get it stopped, and, how about lobbying the industries and supermarkets to only produce recyclable waste. The 2 must go hand in hand.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on April 1, 2011 at 13:16

Its our waste... Unless we make less of it then there will always be a need for these kinds of facilities. That said, there is also a role to play here in packaging- we need to have less of it to ultimately become waste.

 

Until there is strict regulation, rather than the wishy washy regime that we presently have where we as individual consumers have to complain about an individual item having too much packaging, then we are going to be stuck!

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on December 23, 2012 at 12:13

I've always felt just slightly cheated in books, plays and films when a character wakes up and "it was all a dream" . And realises there was no Mayoral Rabbit dressed in chains with a funny hat. No Cllr March Hare and his friends sharing their never-ending points of order. Nor the shrill voice of the Dear Leader ordering-off her unfortunate guests to ....

Anyway, I've had this experience about the Pinkham Way plant. Dreams can be very vivid. And when I woke up I distinctly remembered a plan to build a waste plant on land near the North Circular Road. (As posted by Hugh, John McMullan and Nigel Lupton in March 2011.)  But now it turns out that none of this happened.

Joanne McCartney our London Assembly member is someone I have enormous respect for, and I knew she was against such a scheme. But now I learn that absolutely everyone in Haringey Labour Group was also opposed to the plan. In fact, they are now all overjoyed - dancing and singing in the streets- at the defeat of this bad, shocking, evil plan. A scheme which everybody knew was against the interests of Haringey residents, the environment, and an abomination against the Natural Order.

So why did I have a dream - actually a nightmare - that there were Haringey Labour councillors and planning officers who were pushing through such a scheme? Must have been something I ate.

And plainly I dozed off during the last Council meeting because I appear to have missed the splendid oratory of the many passionate speeches where our "cabinet" poured well-deserved scorn on any such ideas.

It gets worse. All this time I was unaware that: "Local Labour councillors in Haringey have been working tirelessly alongside local residents to raise concerns about the site, both with NLWA and the local council." (North London Waste Authority.)   Again I can only think I must have been asleep when they phoned me to raise these concerns. And what on earth can have happened to the emails they sent?

Of course, with such commitment, and passionate cross-party unanimity there's no possibility whatsoever that an amended scheme will be resubmitted any time soon.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on March 19, 2013 at 16:39

Alan I belatedly read your post concerning your fears that you were asleep or dreaming and had missed something important. I might be able to allay your own health worries, but I'm concerned about phenomena in others that may have triggered your own feelings.

I do not believe you were asleep: my tentative theory is that its a physiological condition in some others. It affects memory. I regret to inform you that some of your colleagues appear to have suffered from memory loss. It also affects some council officers, I am sorry to say.

I've attached my treatise from 2008 about AP (sorry, that again) – it appears alongside a communication from your old friend, Ian Hunt.

Attachments:

• 2008-05-29 Memory lapses Page18.pdf, 154 KB

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 19, 2013 at 16:11

Members of HoL may enjoy watching part of the Council meeting yesterday (18 March 2013) When Mr Stephen Brice led a Deputation from the Pinkham Way Alliance. Click the link here. 

I found Mr Brice particularly illuminating when he compared the area of land which North London Waste would like to gobble-up, to various parks.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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