WITH regard to the incinerator proposal at Lostock, do the planners at Cheshire County Council have any common sense to even consider putting such a scheme in a location that will affect a largely populated area?

Wind is the main important factor, on a gusty day the pollution can travel for miles before grounding.

Westerly winds will blow the toxins towards Knutsford and its surrounding area. Easterly winds mean Northwich, Hartford and Barnton etc will get their ration of toxins. An easy way to tell the wind direction is if the aircraft are flying low over Northwich, the wind is coming from the east. On a calm day the people who work and live near the site will be most affected, putting themselves and their families at a tremendous risk.

To be blunt, no area or person will escape the fallout.

We already have a large chemical store in Holford Brine Fields, gas storage with more to come and hazardous waste stored in Winsford Rock Salt Mines; and who knows what else we don’t know about.

In fact, we have become one big dumping ground, is that the Northwich Vision they keep talking about.

I would have thought that to put the public at such risk would be against the Human Rights Act.

The planners at Cheshire County Council deserve a vote of no confidence if this goes ahead as they are supposed to practise a duty of care towards us. We as ratepayers employ these people and have a right to disagree with them. It is up to the county councillors to find out what the planners are doing behind closed doors. I don’t trust them and nor should you.

I can suggest a place to put all this waste and that is under the Houses of Parliament, to match the waste already above it; after all, these ideas start from there.

To Cheshire County Council, think of something else, as there are other alternatives.

J.D. WILLIAMS

Park Lane, Moulton