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Incinerator plans shown to villagers
PLANS for a waste incinerator in Sutton Courtenay will be submitted to the Vale of White Horse District Council on Monday.
Villagers get a chance to view the proposals at a public display Thursday and Friday, from 2pm until 8pm, at the village hall, in Hobbyhorse Lane.
Oxfordshire County Council plans an incinerator capable of burning at least 300,000 tonnes of waste each year.
Spanish-owned Waste Recycling Group (WRG), which operates the landfill site in Sutton Courtenay, is on the shortlist of just two companies.
The other is Viridor, which runs the other major landfill site in Oxfordshire, at Ardley, near Bicester.
A decision is due early next year as to which company will win the £100m bid to go ahead with the incinerator.
The Sutton Courtenay application includes plans for an incinerator, bottom ash recycling plant, air pollution control, residue landfill, and visitor and office accommodation.
WRG officer Bob Wilson said: "We are pleased to be moving forward with our planning application for the plant in tandem with our final submission for the Oxfordshire bid. The public exhibition this week will give local people the chance to see the detailed work that has gone into the planning application."
Once the application has been registered, the county council will then undertake its own consultation.
If the proposal is given the go-ahead, construction could begin next spring and the incinerator be fully operational by 2012.
12:00pm Wednesday 16th July 2008
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