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Nuclear waste plan ‘would scar Lincolnshire Wolds’

BBC UK Sharon Edwards, Political reporter, Lincolnshire, 12th Feb 2025

A council is set to withdraw from talks to bury nuclear waste in the countryside.

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government body, has earmarked an area near Louth, Lincolnshire, to build a disposal facility.

However, East Lindsey District Council (ELDC) leader Craig Leyland said the scheme would “scar” agricultural land, and a consultation process had served only to “antagonise and distress” residents.

NWS thanked the district council for taking part in the talks and said it would continue working with Lincolnshire County Council.

In 2021, the district council joined a community partnership group with NWS to examine a previous proposal to bury waste at a former gas terminal in Theddlethorpe, near Mablethorpe.

Last month, NWS announced it had moved the proposed location of the facility to land between Gayton le Marsh and Great Carlton.

But Leyland said the new proposal would “scar several kilometres of Lincolnshire farmland on the margins of the Lincolnshire Wolds”.

He also said the consultation process had “not been effective” and the council had not been given all the information it needed from NWS.

East Lindsey councillors will be asked to formally vote to withdraw from the consultation.

‘A key role’

The move will not automatically kill the plan, which requires “community consent” to go ahead, as NWS is still working with the county council……………………………

Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) remains in the process, but leader Councillor Martin Hill said the authority shared some of ELDC’s concerns about the new location…………………………….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvqljq77p0o

February 16, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, UK, wastes