{"id":609,"date":"2019-04-09T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ni4h.org\/?p=609"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:24:33","slug":"about-ni4h-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/about-ni4h-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ni4H Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No Incinerator 4 Horsham (Ni4H) is a peaceful, non-political Community Group of local residents, formed in 2016 to raise awareness and campaign for sound environmental reasons against plans to build a huge\u00a0incinerator in Horsham, importing up to 230,000 tonnes per year of residual commercial and industrial waste and\/or residual municipal solid waste from across 6 counties. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed building is 36-metre-high, and the 95-metre-high permanently lit chimney stack is higher than the Statue of Liberty. The Group\u2019s current focus is on the planning appeal lodged by Britaniacrest Recycling Ltd against refusal of planning permission by West Sussex County Council (WSCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H took\nover from a previous campaign group (HALT) which successfully fought an\nincinerator proposal in the early 2000s.  As a result of that refusal of planning\npermission, WSCC and West Sussex taxpayers made a significant investment in\nalternative waste management solutions and built a Mechanical & Biological\nTreatment facility (MBT) at the Brookhurst Wood site. The new facility provided\nWest Sussex with significant additional waste processing capacity of over 310,000\ntonnes per annum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members\nof Ni4H have spent many hours reviewing evidence in the public domain to try to\nunderstand the need for waste management capacity in the locality, available\nand alternative technologies and alternatives to incineration. They have also\nexamined, in detail, the WSCC and South Downs National Park Authority West Sussex\nWaste Local Plan April 2014 and Britaniacrest\u2019s supporting development\ndocuments, attended public meetings, and provided representatives to the Residents\u2019\nLiaison Group for Britaniacrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H has engaged with members of the public organising\ntwo petitions, holding public meetings and through the media and social media. 4,532\nmembers of the public who signed Ni4H\u2019s Change.org petition at planning\napplication stage, and over 1,410 members of the public (so far) who signed Ni4H\u2019s\nnew petition at planning appeal stage, feel very strongly that this planning\nappeal should be dismissed. The new petition started 27th<\/sup> January 2019,\nsignatures up to 9th April 2019 were 425 on paper copies and 985 online\npetition with Change.org, totaling 1,410 signatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H has kept up to date with a changing view in the Government to move away from residual waste management to a focus on increasing resource productivity through measures to avoid the residual waste streams altogether, as set out in the 2017 Government Office for Science Report \u201cFrom Waste to Resource Productivity\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/a>, <\/em>and Defra\u2019s \u201cOur Waste, Our Resources: A Strategy for England\u201d[2]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/a><\/em> published at the end of 2018.  The latter document sets very clear pathways and drivers to secure change and to tackle specific problematic waste streams e.g. plastic and food waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H appreciates there is a pressing need to manage waste as high up the waste hierarchy as possible, in the top tiers, and is concerned that this could be undermined by overprovision of new waste treatment capacity at the lower tiers of the waste hierarchy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H strongly believes that the Appeal against refusal of a \u201c3Rs facility\u201d in Horsham should be treated as nothing other than a proposal for an incinerator (bottom of the Waste Hierarchy) which fails to meet key Local, County and National objectives, policy, and guidance.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Local residents need professional assistance and urgently need to raise \u00a350,000 for technical expert reports and a barrister,<\/strong> to take forward Ni4H\u2019s 31 page Interested Party submission and represent Ni4H as a Rule 6 Party, at the 3-week Public Inquiry due to commence on 29th<\/sup> October 2019. If sufficient funds are not raised Ni4H will only be able to speak for a few minutes at the Inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ni4H bank and PayPal accounts<\/strong> are monitored by 2 people, cash is dual handled and recorded using signed receipts. We are considering setting up CrowdJustice when we have appointed a barrister or arranging that donations can be sent direct to the barrister\u2019s account. https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please\ncontact us for any further information <\/strong>– Email: NoIncinerator4Horsham@gmail.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook: No Incinerator 4 Horsham – Appeal Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a>https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/from-waste-to-resource-productivity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a>https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/resources-and-waste-strategy-for-england<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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