COUNCILLORS BACK PLAN... BUT THE FIGHT GOES ON!

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REDUCE, RE-USE, RECYCLE! As a campaign Dump the Dump is committed to recycling, waste reduction & pollution containment. For hints, tips, arguments and links click here.

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The Dump the Dump campaign has been going for well over a year now in opposition to the proposal for a commercial company (Veolia) to build and operate a waste station with a capacity of 200, 000 tonnes in Hollingdean to handle all domestic waste from Brighton and Hove and beyond.

We have opposed this scheme on the grounds of health, safety, intensification of traffic, the inappropriateness of the location and the unsustainability in terms of this form of waste management.

The campaign has galvanised huge support for its stance with around 2500 letters of objection to each of the two subsequent applications for the scheme being sent to the Council. We have the overwhelming support of all local councillors and our local MP, David Lepper.

Despite this the application was passed with a vote of 8 for and 4 against on 19th June. But opposition has if anything increased in size and intensity with more and more people becoming actively involved in the campaign and a continuous barrage of letters to the press.

We feel that the council has acted very badly in this matter – inadequately consulting with local people, promoting the scheme via its newspaper and via a leaflet and letter distribution to thousands of homes on Council headed paper (paid for by YOU) in advance of supposedly independently assessing the virtues of the scheme and building up the incorrect impression that this is about increasing recycling. We are also making complaints about how the process of the application has been dealt with.

Despite the decision on 19th June the fight continues on a number of fronts and we hope to have the decision to go ahead with the dump overturned. You can help by active involvement, money and continued letters to the council and the press. Click on "What you can do" above to find out how

 
The fight goes on to oppose building of Brighton and Hove’s rubbish dump in the middle of a family community, campaigners have vowed, despite City councillors backing the plan in the face of fierce opposition today (Monday June 19).
 
Ed Start of community campaigners Dump the Dump, who presented its objections to the proposals at the meeting, said: “We are deeply disappointed that our councillors failed to appreciate how this proposal will impact on our community.
 
“They have put commercial interest and petty politics before the real needs of the community, and we can promise that this will have consequences – for all Parties – at the ballot box across Brighton and Hove. We have been ill-served by politicians who have rubber-stamped a face-saving waste-management solution for the City council – one that has also consigned an entire residential area, along with its schools, small business and shops, to the rubbish bin.
 
“But the fight isn’t over yet. There is huge local opposition to the scheme – there were thousands of letters of objection – and we are ready to challenge this decision in the courts.…
 
 “We are also dismayed that the Local Education Authority has signally failed in its duty of care to our children, who will bear the brunt of this monstrous development, due to its proximity to two large schools. Too little action too late, Mr David (head of LEA).
 
“We have lost this particular battle, despite the very hard work of a committed team of local people who felt compelled to take action on behalf of the community. But we haven’t lost the war yet. There are better ways of dealing the City’s waste – more sustainable, more environmentally friendly and better for the whole of Brighton and Hove.”