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The Sheffield Council Scrutiny panel
today voted out a request to examine the planning application for the new
waste incinerator at Bernard Road. Once more, the clear divide between Lib
Dem and Labour policy showed in the voting, with three Lib Dems voting for
and four Labour voting against examining the issue, almost a mirror image
of the recent controversial decision by the planning board to grant
planning permission.
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The only way campaigners can now get the decision overturned is to
instigate a Judicial Review, which is a costly and difficult legal
process. Campaign representatives at the meeting were warned about the
implications of taking this action and were told that if the campaigners
lost this review that the Council would almost certainly 'seek to recover
costs from the instigators'.
Andy Booth was at the meeting representing Sheffield Against Incineration.
He said, "Once more the Council are looking out for themselves and
denying the public the right to make sure this life or death issue is
properly handled. The Labour members of the scrutiny panel looked more
like accused criminals in a dock, taking constant legal advice to protect
them rather than being the public servants they are supposed to be. There
was no mistaking the thinly veiled threat of counter action if we lost the
case. A Judicial Review costs tens of thousands of pounds (£30 - 40k
upwards) . "