Forum topic: Sign before 10th April to safeguard the Pinkham Way nature conservation site

What’s this all about? There’s a complete iceberg of underwater aspects but just looking at some of the easy pickings:
North London (that’s us) generates 2.86m tonnes of waste pa (latest figures)
It has capacity of 4.42m tonnes to manage it.
That’s surplus capacity of 1.6m tonnes pa, or 35%.
Enough? North London is also net exporter of waste, so the available capacity should be even higher.
But apparently it’s not enough.
Equivalent capacity-gap maths recently saw an agreement to a large new incinerator at Edmonton which quickly had the waste authority identifying waste “opportunities” in a 50 mile radius (think eg Oxford and Reading) to fill it up.
Then there’s the £1m pa special budget line in the council’s accounts repaying the £60m outstanding loans which are a residue from an earlier Pinkham Way debacle. (That’s roughly this year’s cut in Enfield’s public health grant). It’s also on top of the approximately £40m in various associated costs and professional fees we’ve all met via the authorities cash flow (our Council Tax).
But earlier PWA efforts did help drive £900m of savings when the original “procurement “plans for Pinkham Way were dropped.
That’s what we do, because the history indicates this organisation needs to be held to account.
That’s why your signature, and even donation, in support of the current work is important.
Google Pinkham Way Alliance. Look at the photos. Add your name to the submission before it closes next week. It makes sense.

I should add this is a consultation relevant to the 7 boroughs / 2 million people of North London, so PWA encourage you to pass details on to relevant friends, family and networks.

For those with a lot of time on their hands, or an interest, the PWA submission to the Regulation 19 North London Waste Plan is now available to download from the PWA web site ( www.pinkhamwayalliance.org/ ). In this process, the assumption is that the R19 NLWP is “sound”, ie should be approved without amendment. It is up to others, such as PWA, to prove why that is not the case. PWA would seem to have done a good job in that but it will be up to the independent inspector in the public hearing expected in the autumn to examine the evidence and make their decision. That means 2020 is likely to be a year of champagne or tears, certainly for the jumping spiders, various amphibians and other wildlife currently residing there or simply using it as a green corridor.