HAVING looked at the submissions on which Wiltshire County Council’s planning committee decided to allow the building of the Hills pyrolysis plant at Westbury, I find the level of expertise on the character of plume grounding, wind dispersal modelling and abatement equipment on the chimney nearly criminally negligent.

The company admit plume grounding will take place and the experience is that it will happen within one-two kms from the plant.

Realistically it could place the emissions in the yards of several Westbury primary schools as well as one secondary school.

You need to understand in advance what type of emissions you are prepared to allow for that to happen. Wiltshire CC and the Environment Agency know this but have failed to provide the evidence or even consider it.

I am not against progress or business but I am against potential poisoning of the young and most vulnerable in our society. Those who represent us should be too.

David Levy, The Air That We Breathe