CAMPAIGN AGAINST INCINERATOR URGENT – MON NOV 28 at 2 p.m. and TUES NOV 29TH at 10.30 a.m.

MEETINGS OF HERTS COUNTY COUNCIL Meeting of Herts CC Cabinet (Mon) and of full County Council (Tues) TO DISCUSS APPROVAL OF THE WASTE SITES ALLOCATIONS DOCUMENT Which recommends New Barnfield as a site for an incinerator PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND EITHER OR BOTH THESE MEETINGS WE NEED SOME PEOPLE TO HEAR WHAT OUR COUNCILLORS SAY You will not be able to speak, but you can sit in the committee room for Cabinet, or in the public gallery of the Council Chamber for Council, and listen to what the County Councillors say.

The meetings are at County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford SG13 8DN You might like to contact your County Councillors before this meeting, to tell them your views on the proposal to build an incinerator at New Barnfield.

The meeting on Monday is a meeting of Herts CC Cabinet (In committee room B) A member of this Cabinet is Stuart Pile, who is the County councillor who represents Hatfield South. Stuart.pile@tesco.net 01707/260/125 . 18 Lavender Close, Hatfield.

The meeting on Tuesday is a meeting of the full County Council.

Local members of County Council for the Welwyn/Hatfield area are: Bill Storey (Hatfield Rural) bill.storey@hertscc.gov.uk. 01707/694951 55 Holloways Lane, Welham Green Clare Berry (Hatfield North) 01707/259843 clare.berry@hertscc.gov.uk Richard Smith, (Welwyn) 01438/714323. richard.smith@hertscc.gov.uk Clare Berry and Richard Smith are members of the Herts CC Development & Control Committee, which will be judging Veolia’s Planning Application. If they express a view on the issue they may need to stand down from this panel, so tell them your views, but do not press them to express a view.

Sara Johnston (Haldens) 01707/892646 sara.johnston@hertscc.gov.uk Steve Markiewicz (WGC south) steve.markiewicz@hertscc.gov.uk 01438/717377 Steve Markiewicz (Con) has supported us on previous occasions Malcolm Cowan (Handside & Peartree). Malcolm.cowan@virgin.net 01707/324723 Malcolm Cowan (Lib/Dem) has supported us on previous occasions (Remember, Welwyn/Hatfield Borough Council, Hatfield Town Council, local Parish Councils, and Welwyn/Hatfield MP Grant Shapps are all opposed to an incinerator being built at New Barnfield) If HertsCC Cabinet and Council approve this Waste Sites Allocations Document, it will then go out to Public Consultation, from January 2012 for 6 weeks.

……………………………………………………………………………………… Note that this Consultation on the Waste Sites Allocations Document is additional to the Planning Application process.

Veolia’s Planning Application to build an incinerator at New Barnfield will be made public on Dec 5th, and there will be a period in which organisations and the public can send in objections to New Barnfield Planning Team at Herts CC, from Dec 5th to Jan 31st.

HAI will be giving advice on making objections to this planning application as soon as we have seen it. The advice will be on this website, and in leaflets delivered to homes.

Cathy, Sec, Hatfield against Incineration www.hatfield-anti-incineration.co.uk or click on this link HAI Please look at our website for updates on the campaign