Stop the Wastewise (Biowise) Willerby Expansion — 21 signatures. Status: rejected.
Call for stricter laws on industrial waste sites to protect communities from severe pollution. It demands the government amend planning laws to block expansions of facilities with open odour complaints, and grants regulators powers to penalise or halt non-compliant operat
We demand strict, enforceable penalties for the ongoing, persistent odours that ruin our quality of life. Operators want to expand the facility to handle up to 125,000 tonnes of extra commercial and sorting waste. If they cannot control the smell now, they cannot be trusted with a massive expansion. Residents are forced to live with their windows and doors shut, are unable to sit in or tend to their own gardens, and cannot even drive through their own neighbourhoods with their car windows down without being subjected to vile, nauseating stenches.
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