An application has come in to Bucks County Council whose consequences will be sweeping if it succeeds. The application is for a waste transfer facility on `land East of Mill Lane'. The applicant is a rich and powerful company so the fact that the site is eminently unsuitable might easily be overlooked in Westminster and our own Council Offices.
Bucks County Council have put in writing that
The proposed development does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the land to which the application relates is situated.
Submissions should be addressed to Planning Development Control, County Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury HP20 1UY or email
planning@buckscc.gov.uk quoting reference number SBD/8217/04. The applicant is St. Regis Paper Company, part of DS Smith Plc, whose annual turnover is approaching £200 million. The site is not the established Taplow Paper Mill, but located across the Lane, running along the Jubilee River.
The activities are described as
sorting and baling recovered plastics and metal tins for recycling and limited use as a transfer station for waste paper.
Quite how the increased activity can be accommodated on this site along with increased lorry movements is a mystery since it is required to cope with 56,000 cubic metres of plastics and metal cans, in addition to the paper already flooding onto the site each year?
It is recommended that if any reader wishes to comment then they should be limited to the material planning considerations. Please write as a matter of urgency. You owe it to yourself.
