Incinerator plan set to be rejected

Published on Friday 3 February 2012 00:09

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a £100 million waste incinerator in the heart of Perth – condemned by opponents as a “pollutant-belching monstrosity” – are set to be rejected for a second time today, eight years after the controversial scheme was first proposed.

In November 2010 the Scottish Government rejected an appeal by developer Grundon Waste Management against the decision of Perth and Kinross Council to block plans to site the giant plant at Shore Road, close to Perth Prison and on an area between the River Tay and the South Inch parklands.

Six years earlier the council had granted outline planning permission for a 90,000-tonne capacity incinerator at the site to a company called Holden Environmental. Local residents were outraged last year when Grundon announced plans to submit a revised proposal to the council.

Senior council planners, however, are now recommending that the revised “waste to energy” scheme should be thrown out for second time at a special meeting of the council’s development control committee.

Pete Wishart, the MP for Perth and North Perthshire and an opponent of the project, is leading calls for the amended scheme to be rejected.

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Lachie Mhor

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 01:51 PM

“pollutant-belching monstrosity” I thought that Benito had moved to Perth.

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Willie Boy

Friday, February 3, 2012 at 07:36 PM

Every community should have a big hole at the end of the street where their waste is dumped. Nobody wants clean green energy plants, so why not just dump it locally. And the same same should apply to sewage. Sh!t starts at home so why not keep it local since no one else wants to deal with it.

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