Are local Labour and Tory councillors deaf?
Regarding the decision to reject the marina development, Brighton and Hove City Council planning committee members argued its role was to represent constituents (The Argus, November 22).
Yet many councillors chose to ignore their views on the local waste plan at the full council meeting last week.
During a public consultation on modifications to the plan earlier this year, the majority of the 8,429 people and organisations who responded said they wanted higher recycling targets and a review of all possible waste sites, heeding the advice of the independent inspector. Yet officers and councillors appear to have ignored it.
The Newhaven incinerator is at the heart of the waste strategy. Would the council have approved it so readily if its site was marked down for somewhere in Brighton and Hove?
-Brenda Pollack, regional campaigns co-ordinator, Friends of the Earth
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