HC Deb 15 December 1993 vol 234 c1242

3.8 am

Mr. Oliver Heald (Hertfordshire, North)

I present the petition from the residents of Letchworth and the surrounding area who have formed a group to oppose a proposed clinical waste incinerator in Stotfold road, Letchworth.

Letchworth is the world's garden city and it is proposed to put a clinical waste incinerator with a 75 ft high chimney and a huge building in the green belt on the edge of the town near a school and a large housing estate. Some 19,105 of my constituents fear for their health. They are worried about the pollution that will be caused, the unsightly nature of the development, the noise and traffic, and the fact that the incinerator is to be positioned in the green belt. They have therefore requested that the House of Commons should invite the Secretary of State for the Environment to call in the planning application for a Clinical Waste Incinerator … and deal with it personally. They have also requested the Secretary of State to take full account of the extent of public opinion against the proposal. The petition concludes: And your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray".

To lie upon the Table.