WASTE TRANSFER PLAN 'WILL SWAMP SUSSEX'

ONLY a U-turn by Communities and Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears can save Sussex from being swamped by London's waste.

By The Newsroom

Published 13th Nov 2007, 16:14 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:39 BST

Plans are for five million tonnes of waste to be transferred from London's bins to Sussex over the next 20 years. Even Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, has backed the campaign to stop waste from his city being sent to new landfills in Sussex.

He has attacked London's record on tackling its rubbish, saying it is failing, complex and fragmented.

Mr Livingstone said:" London and the Government has refused my proposal to create a strategic single waste disposal authority."

Mr Livingstone had been told in a letter from John de Mierre, West Sussex county council cabinet member for strategic planning, that London's waste authorities should stop using the county as a dumping ground for rubbish.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette November 14