The online petition makes a valueable addition to our cause. Please sign it. Although the petition is worthwhile, be aware that it is more important to send a personal objection letter. If you can do both, this would be great.
As seen through-out Sky Properties’ approach to the residents of Salford, they continue to place little value on the communities concerns or health. While refering to residents as “Human Receptors”, they state in their application’s Non-Technical Summary that locals will be subjected to “educational techniques”.
The only educational techniques we are interested in are the one’s where Sky provides accurate information and reveals all the facts, which they have failed to do so far. Sky’s reporting of facts as they see them continues to be from another planet.
Here is the Non-Technical Summary document included with the application:
This paints a very rosy picture of what is proposed and continues to roll out the same tired messages. I think my favourite quote is “the perceived image of the proposed waste facilities on the local communities can be deemed as not being a major concern”. 1500 people on Facebook, several thousand petition signatures and a serious amount of objection letters will beg to differ.
Earth to Sky Properties, prepare to have your application abducted and dissected. Every paragraph, sentence and word will be challenged. Please stop insulting the intelligence of the “Human Receptors” in Salford.
Well done to the CHAIN (Cheshire Against Incineration) Campaign for getting this stopped. The CHAIN campaign has almost 200 members and continues to oppose a number of incinerators in the Cheshire area.
The Green Lane campaign is almost up to 1,500 members and each and every one of us intends to oppose this proposal.
Another of Sky’s neighbours has put an application in to the Council, to become a “Waste Transfer Station”. Their site is located at the end of Lansdowne Rd and in close proximity to the houses there. The application is sparse to say the least and provides little information on what the impacts of the changes will be. In short, more waste, more traffic, more problems.
Part of the application states that they won’t to store waste up to a height of 10m. It acknowledges that some paper already blows on neighbouring properties, but that the neighbours aren’t concerned about this. 10m of waste will cause further problems, and may add support to Sky’s application to turn Monton into a waste dump.
How high is 10m of waste? About this high:
If you would like to object, you can find more details and post online here:
Just two days after a HGV got stuck under the Green Lane rail bridge, the road has continued to experience traffic issues. Around 3pm today a car veered off the road and crash directly into the fence surrounding the proposal incineration site. We don’t believe there were any fatalities at this time.
These pictures were taken after the police had cordoned off the road and removed the vehicle. This is one of several accidents to have happened on Green Lane. This campaign has maintained from the start that there are serious access issues for the site and that the sharp bend on which it is placed is difficult to navigate.
The vehicle involved here was a car, we can only speculate what damage would have been caused by a 40 tonne waste truck failing to navigate the bend.
This is further evidence that traffic calming measures are required along Green Lane and Canal Bank. Adding an additional 160 HGVs to the already risk ridden road would only exacerbate existing traffic problems. When will Sky Properties begin to see sense? We must wait and see.
Yesterday, access problems continued to disrupt industrial activity on Green Lane as a HGV got stuck under the low rail bridge sited near the Queen’s Arms public house.
The stuck HGV managed to block traffic bound from Patricroft to Monton for over 25 minutes Read More »
In recent months there has been much activity around various events, elections and communications. The campaign continues to gather pace with the largest number of members since we started 6 months ago. As it stands, we continue to remain vigilant, gather information and act where necessary to oppose the Eco Park nightmare. To keep everyone informed, please find a breakdown of the main activity and where we stand today.
Community Liaison Group (CLG)
On January 25th, Sky Properties tried to hold a “consultation” meeting with a cherry picked number of residents to discuss their proposal in more depth. Sky are legally obliged to do this as part of the application process and the more “consultation” they can claim they have provided, the better standing they believe the application for their waste plant will have. The Say No campaign refused to let this happen quietly behind closed doors and invited the public to the meeting, eventually forcing Sky to open the doors to all interested parties. Read More »
