CAMPAIGN group No Wey Incinerator is challenging Veolia to prove its burner plan is needed before subjecting Alton residents to Hampshire’s fourth incinerator.

Veolia claims the development is designed to meet the county’s needs but campaigners opposing the plan for an incinerator off the A31 in the rural Wey Valley want to see the evidence.

As reported in the Herald on January 6, a Hampshire County Council spokesperson said it had done its own “detailed and up-to-date assessment of need and capacity, specifically in relation to commercial or industrial waste”.

Campaigners welcomed this but want the report to be published then scrutinised by independent experts.

The South East Waste Planning Advisory Group, of which the council is a member, said south-east England did not need further incineration 
capacity.

No Wey Incinerator spokesman Ben Stanberry said: “Veolia has failed to provide hard facts on the sources of waste and the need for additional capacity to support its 
application.

“We are concerned this development is for a merchant operation, which means it will burn waste from anywhere for profit. It will be taking waste not just from Hampshire but the whole of the south of England.

“We insist Veolia must show us the sums before proceeding any further with this application.

“How can the council’s regulatory committee, which will meet in the near future to consider this hugely opposed proposal, possibly make a balanced decision if the figures don’t add up?”