Letters to Write

Once you’ve read the documents on this website and found out as much as you feel you need to make an informed decision, write to anyone you think needs to know (eg local paper, schools, businesses, community groups) encouraging them to share the news and explaining how you feel.

Please write to the following, as they are the ones making the decision about what happens next.

Include the reference number for this site: EN010110

Also “Wisbech Medworth Proposed Incinerator”

It’s really vital that people send their objections, detailed below.
It’s better to write each objection separately, ie in several emails if they are different topics, rather than put them all in one email.
The more objections the better!
We are now also keeping a record so we know how many complaints have been received as apparently these can go astray!
So please ensure you copy us too. (Copyus@wiswin.email).
If you are providing a link to your specific point, these MUST be in PDF otherwise they won’t be examined by the Planning Inspectorate.
Thank you.
WHOM TO OBJECT TO
Please write your objections to:
You can use the issues we have raised in our leaflet as well as your own.

Write to all three MPs:

  • Our MP Stephen (Steve) Barclay

stephen.barclay.mp@parliament.uk

  • Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

robert.jenrick.mp@parliament.uk

  • Kwasi Karteng, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

kwasi.kwarteng.mp@parliament.uk

Letters can be sent to the above MPs at:

House of Commons
Westminster
London
SW1A 0AA
Also write to:
  • the company wanting to build the incinerator

MVV Environment Ltd

c/o Devonport EfW CHP Facility

Creek Road

Plymouth

Devon

PL5 1FL

email the website for this particular proposed incinerator via this contact page:
https://www.mvv-medworthchp.co.uk/get-in-touch

email the parent company via this contact page:

https://www.mvv-muenchen.de/en/footer/contact/index.html…

We are at the Pre-Application stage, we hope it won’t go further, but if it does, we will then need to write to:

  • The Planning Inspectorate

Tim.Salter@planninginspectorate.gov.uk

See their website for more:
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/application-process/the-process/

(for guidance on writing to the Planning Inspectorate click here, thanks to one of our Facebook members for showing us this)

The Environment Agency will be looking at this and so we should also write to them at the appropriate point.

More details on https://ukwin.org.uk/act-locally/

This extract from the above page shows what we can ask them, ie what they are allowed to comment on:

 

UKWIN advises those responding to Environmental Permit applications to focus on:
  • Location-specific issues such as temperature inversions,  local wildlife sites and ‘in-combination effects’ with other sources of pollution that may not have been fully addressed;
  • Whether or not the applicant has adequately justified their proposed stack height (i.e. whether or not they have justified not opting for a higher stack which could reduce pollution impacts on nearby sensitive receptors);
  • The applicant’s choice of NOx pollution reduction technology (some are better but more expensive, so they may have argued for a cheaper solution);
  • The basis for the level of emissions ‘worst case scenario’ (during operation they are allowed to subtract measurement uncertainty when they assess their measured emissions against emissions limits, and so an actual ‘worst case under the permit’ scenario would be for emissions to be at the Industrial Emissions Directive limits plus double the measurement uncertainty);
  • How the operator handles uncertainty with respect to where pollution will fall (it has been stated by incinerator applicants for appeal ref 3218965 that “Dispersion models typically have an accepted uncertainty of up to +/-25%”, so a ‘worst case scenario’ assessment should assume the impact on any given receptor is potentially 25% higher than modelled);
  • Any significant errors and omissions that mean the Environment Agency should go back to the applicant with more questions (in what is known as a “Schedule 5 request”); and
  • Any inconsistencies between the information provided for the Environmental Permit and for the planning application (which could require the applicant to provide an explanation to the Environment Agency and/or for the planning permission being varied).