ANGRY
residents have slammed the Scottish
Government for turning East Lothian into
“a wasteland” after councillors lifted a
restriction on where waste treated at a
proposed incinerator can come from.
East Lothian Council planning bosses
yesterday voted 12 to two in favour of
removing a condition under which only
waste from Edinburgh, East Lothian,
Midlothian and the Scottish Borders
could be brought to recycling giant
Viridor’s £200 million plant in
Oxwellmains, near Dunbar, for
incineration to produce energy.
The decision means waste from all over
Scotland will come to the facility when
Viridor finishes building it in 2016.
Viridor was granted permission in 2010
for the plant after a Scottish
Government reporter reversed a council
ban but imposed a condition limiting
where waste is sourced.
Council bosses said the decision to lift
the restriction was reached as
government guidance had since changed,
meaning waste generated in Scotland
could be treated anywhere within
national borders.
Residents living close to the site of
the proposed plant today told of their
fears over future levels of pollution
and traffic, and said they felt
“powerless” against the Scottish
Government and Viridor.
Chris Bruce, member of the joint action
group opposed to the plant and chair of
East Lammermuir community council, said:
“As you pass Dunbar, you see a cement
works, a landfill site and a nuclear
power station – and now we are going to
have this incinerator.
“It’s one unsightly development
justifying another unsightly
development, and it’s as if our part of
the world is being written off as a
wasteland.
“There’ll be the bigger carbon footprint
and higher pollution from the lorries
coming all that way through East
Lothian.”
Philip Banks, former chair of the joint
action group, accused Viridor of being
driven by profit and said: “They just
want to set up a working plant to show
off to cities like Edinburgh which,
rather than developing their systems,
will just ship all their waste to this
plant.”
Viridor bosses welcomed the decision and
said the new plant would help deliver
the government’s zero waste strategy.
Colin Paterson, the company’s regional
director in Scotland, said: “The
decision by East Lothian Council to
approve the policy alignment on waste
reception reflects a common-sense
approach which has long operated across
Scotland.
A spokesman for East Lothian council
said: “The planning committee was
advised that it would be better to
approve this change as if the council
refused, a [government] reporter would
just turn it down on appeal since
national guidelines on waste have
changed.”
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