Steve Brine has congratulated a group of volunteers from Micheldever after highly controversial plans for an Energy Recovery Centre were finally dropped by the applicants.
The Micheldever Action Group, headed by well-known local man Adrian Bates, worked hard with councillors, the community and their MP as they fought the application over many years for the plant at Overton Road, Micheldever Station, and news came through on Friday 16th October that Clean Power Properties had dropped their appeal, which had been launched in December 2014.
Steve Brine MP said: "What a smart decision this is from the applicant. From the very start this has been a model of how not to work with a local community on what was always going to be a controversial proposal.
"You cannot question the need to find sustainable, cheaper and cleaner alternatives to landfill or even incineration but the question we had to ask ourselves was, are we content to see this site used for the processing of household waste from near and almost certainly far?
"My constituents in Micheldever Station didn't want their community to be the repository for waste from across Hampshire and I don't blame them. The Action Group, and Adrian Bates especially, have done a terrific job for which we are all very grateful."