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WASTE PLANS ‘AN OUTRAGE’ Milton Hill residents criticise digester proposals
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RESIDENTS from Milton Hill have labelled plans for an Anaerobic Waste Digester as an “outrage”. Energy company M2G Renewable has submitted a planning application to Vale of White Horse District Council to build the digester at Grove Farm. However, local residents have started a petition as part of ‘Residents Against Milton Digester’ claiming the facility, which would digest organic material such as poultry manure, will cause long term harm to the local envrionment. Carole Hooper, from Milton Hill, who organised the petition, said: “It is a green field site. It does not make environmen mental sense.” The petition has picked up Th over 200 signatures both online and paper in the space of a
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week and Mrs Hooper is hoping to collect as many signatures as possible. She added: “We are not a big community. “Milton Heights is not a huge development but I would estimate that there is no more than 120 houses around there so you could argue that we have basically got all of them signed up.” The facility is said to be within 250m of homes, local businesses such as a farm shop and much-loved cherry orchards and close by to St Blaise Primary School. Angela Bradley, co-owner of the Core Business Centre, which is based opposite the farm, says it could have a big impact on her business. “I am completely and totally outraged by it,” she said. “In the building we have 12 companies. “Because it is such a lovely
location, we have been able to attract high-tech businesses and they love to be here. “They are horrified and if this goes ahead I am going to lose a large number of these companies.” Residents have also voiced concerns about odours that will come from the site, as well as an influx of HGVs on local roads. M2G Renewable say the plant will utilise processed and prepasteurised food matter in soup form which will be delivered by sealed tankers, pumped into storage cylinders and into the digesters. A statement read: “Our plant will not receive unprocessed food waste or animal by-products. “At the end of the digestive process, which will take around 60 days, the end product, or digestate, will be stored in sealed storage tanks before being spread onto neighbouring fields by tanker.” The company was also keen • Continued on page 3
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