No benefits for local residents

It just shows how someone who represents residents outside of this area can force through plans for recycling somewhere else. It will no doubt help Clr Hogg to be re-elected.

Clr Byram states that there were ‘no members of the public there, nor was there anyone from any parish councils at the planning committee to speak against it. If there had been, it could have gone the other way’. This nicely lets yourself and your planning committee off the hook, councillor.

I am a Lostock parish councillor and yes, we knew about the planning application, but I did not know when the application was being heard, nor did anyone else I have spoken to that lives near the site. CWAC or its planning committee councillors are not that good at informing local residents of planning decision dates, especially controversial ones.

Now that is convenient for our secret new authority and its unelected planning officers.

This application has been approved with its 50 vehicles in and 50 vehicles out a day, plus 70 on a Saturday, which will increase the amount of HGV traffic predicted for the new Cheshire waste plant and incinerator proposed on Griffiths Road, by at least 50 per cent.

Clr Byram, you know as well as the people of Lostock and surrounding area, that the battle against big business is futile. All the campaigning in the world will not stop any form of waste plant or incinerator coming to Griffiths Road, just like when the planning officers, and the planning committee stabbed everyone in the back over the Lostock Triangle.

The only question is, which political party will risk taking the credit for something that has been forced on us? CWAC has not got off to a good start in its first year.

The benefits to big business is mega money, but to local residents and surrounding areas, it is air pollution and Griffiths Road and Broken Cross get for their trouble a new set of traffic lights and traffic grid-lock.

PETER KELLY Lostock Gralam