FORD ECO-TOWN: Waste plant plan dismissed

Leader Cllr Henry Smith said 6,000 houses were proposed, and these were supposed to deliver all sorts of infrastructure benefits.

"The Government is claiming they will deliver the earth, but this is certainly not the case," he declared.

Six thousand houses could not provide enough waste to power an energy from waste plant, so the case for it could not be made."

To provide the amount of power that a plant would need for the homes was estimated to involve a staggering 15,000 heavy goods vehicle movements a year, in order to feed the plant.

"These would no doubt travel on the A27, which would not be good for the ecology of Ford or West Sussex," Cllr Smith told the county council.

This was the nonsense of the eco-town proposals. The fact that the Prime Minister said something was 'eco' did not make it ecologically sound.

"Plans for this development at Ford have existed for many years, which strengthens the argument that a new word has been found for these plans, and there is very little that is environmentally sound about them," he added.

If anything, they would be detrimental to the environment.

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