Fire hazards, Country Codes and road transport!!
Latest The Officers at NK have approved the revised plans for the Anaerobic Digestion Plant. Now the problem was that Councillors wanted to see the traffic implications. The Officers, including Highways, approved the last set of plans! This against the background on concern that arson was a factor in the recent straw fire near Quarrington which showed safety may need a general rethink of H&S!
The recent straw fires near Quarrington, and the adverse media coverage it got, highlighted the need to enforce rules when allowing such a large mass of straw to be sited near populated areas. Straw mass is notorious for becoming internally hot when stacked. This is a farming county which is adept at applying codes of storage.
Yet in this case, as the straw was meant for a Biofuel factory it appears not to have been subject to the same rigorous scrutiny.
The same goes for transport and build up of local traffic near major roads intended for trans Lincolnshire journeys and beyond. The proposed Anaerobic Digestion Plant will need careful scrutiny due to its positioning and maybe other risks of a one-off accidental malfunction. That is what some are saying! I am not an expert. The revised application comes up on 29 Oct!
There is a cost to all this! Road closures, Fire and Ambulance services are stretched and costly and local houses and inhabitants suffer discomfort.
If the area is to expand then it has to up its act and invest in the infrastructure to cope.
It is a wake up call!
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