The proprietor of a historic mansion beside a landfill web site is asking for Falkirk Council to revisit a choice to grant planning permission for a brand new hazardous waste cell.
Avondale Home, near the landfill web site of the identical title in Polmont, was destroyed by fireplace in 2017 and builders Clarkstone Ltd now have permission to remodel its former stables into homes, earlier than starting work to revive the mansion itself.
However the builders are involved that planning permission can also be within the technique of being granted to create a brand new hazardous waste cell within the landfill web site subsequent door.
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The proposed cell is 9.1 hectares and can present capability for 220,000 cubic metres of hazardous waste over 10 years.
Whereas the ultimate approval has not but been given, its standing is 'minded to grant' - a choice that was made by officers utilizing delegated powers.
The matter was beforehand raised by members of Polmont Group Council, who had been advised they had been too late to have the choice made by planning committee because the time restrict had handed for a councillor to request this.
However the lawyer representing Clarkstone says such a significant growth ought to by no means have been authorised with out going to the planning committee.
Alastair McKie believes the Scottish planning legal guidelines haven't been correctly utilized as the brand new gardens for the homes to be inbuilt Avondale Home's grounds will probably be simply 60 metres from the hazardous waste cell.
He believes that the brand new homes his consumer needs to construct at Avondale are classed as "vital receptors" - and meaning there needs to be a buffer zone of at the least 250 metres between them and the brand new facility.
He's additionally involved that the planning committee might want to have a look at the applying anyway earlier than remaining permission is granted as modifications additionally should be made to an settlement about how the landfill web site is restored after use.
Mr McKie says "decoupling" the choice into two or extra components is mindless and the planning permission and situations needs to be determined collectively.
He stated: "I'm astonished that an utility with this diploma of complexity and scale - taking in 1 / 4 of one million kilos of hazardous waste throughout Scotland, over a ten yr interval - isn't going earlier than the planning committee.
"I say that within the curiosity of transparency and democracy. For my part, it isn't too late for councillors to request that this utility be determined by the use of the standard democratic course of, via a committee assembly and listening to.
"In any occasion, the bond of concern is coming earlier than the planning committee anyway, so why decouple the choice?
"I believe its wise for a single choice to be taken on the entire matter by the planning committee."
The NPL group, who personal the Avondale waste remedy facility, had been contacted for remark.
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