New bid to expand toxic waste site
BBC- Ministers have submitted a 10-year plan to dump more toxic waste at La Collette
- Members heard over the summer there were no alternative sites
- The application includes growing one mound and building two new ones
Ministers have submitted a 10-year plan to allow more waste to be piled at the La Colette reclamation site.
Earlier this year States Assembly members agreed that La Collette was the only suitable site for builders waste and hazardous materials such as asbestos.
The assembly heard building work in the island would have to stop without the La Colette site.
The latest application outlines growing one waste mound by 4.5m (14.7ft) - to a total of 21.5m (70.5ft) - and creating two new mounds.
Government of Jersey Planning documents include a 1.8km (1.1-mile) public footpath around the area and the screening of works.
Supporting documents cite the proposed development is "expected to take 10 years to form a large headland to the eastern extent of reclaimed land".
It adds: "Adjacent to this, smaller mounds will be constructed... located to the south and west of the site".
In September, retrospective planning permission was granted to increase the height of the mound – which already surpassed the previously agreed height by 55ft (17m).
Deputy Tom Binet has previously told the states that unless they agreed to more storage capacity, all building work in the island "would simply have to stop".
The new plan would give La Collette 10 more years of use, reduced to eight years if it could no longer export its contaminated ash.
Ecology and diversity are among factors considered in the application, with notes on how vegetation clearance must "either avoid the breeding bird season" or be subject to a "breeding check by an ecologist".
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