An application has been made to the Council to build a Waste Transfer Station and Material Recovery Facility at the former abattoir site off Hollingdean Lane.
The site will process ALL the waste from the Brighton & Hove area - 200,000 tonnes of waste every year. The buildings will be 15 meters high. HGV movements will be substantial. This site is uniquely unsuitable because of its proximity to schools and residential areas.

This is a moral and an ethical issue. The size of the development is just too large and industrial. This is NOT a campaign against the principles of recycling local waste.

We oppose this development on the following grounds:
· not enough public consultation, given the obvious scale of the development
· development to be NEXT DOOR to two schools and hundreds of homes - 15 meters from Downs Infants School playground. See the PROPOSALS link for details.
· too great an impact of extra traffic, HGVs, articulated lorries, vans, and extra congestion, and associated pollution.
· significant impact on noise, dust and vermin pollution.
· environmental injustice: U.N. sub-commission on Human Rights states that ‘we should have freedom from pollution, environmental degradation, and activities that adversely affect the environment or threaten life, health, lively-hood, well-being, or sustainable development.
· It is a basic human right to have access to clean air and a safe environment.

The ‘Hollingbury and Stanmer Ward’ is already recognised as an area in need of regeneration. The recent UK Government ‘Independent Enquiry into Inequalities in Health Report’ notes that, the burden of air pollution tends to fall on people experiencing disadvantage.

In the application documentation from Onyx there has been more written about the bird boxes and buddleiah that they will supply, than about the health of the children and the effects this development will have upon them.

Voicing our concerns is not NIMBYism, we support recycling and we're fully aware of the need to address waste management. This is not the right solution!

We've tried to gather as many fact, figures, arguments and alternatives on this site. Please take some time to navigate around it for detailed information on the developement. Click on CONTACT US to send an e-mail. We're waiting to hear from you!