Councillors have voted in support of altering an enforcement notice served on a Barry incinerator under threat of closure. Vale of Glamorgan Council's planning committee met on Thursday April 27 to discuss plans to vary the enforcement notice served on the Woodham Road incinerator in 2021 after a number of discrepancies were found with its approved plans.
Biomass UK No.2 Ltd. appealed against the enforcement notice to Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW) in October 2021, arguing that the measures in the notice, including the removal of the incinerator, were excessive. Ahead of an inquiry over the matter, PEDW recently wrote to the council about the way its enforcement notice was written, adding that it "should consider whether the allegation is a sufficiently precise description" and how it might be corrected.
However, campaigners and some councillors are concerned that this could see the council backtracking on its plans to enforce the closure of the plant and the eventual re-commencement of operations there. A member of Vale of Glamorgan Council's planning committee, Cllr Nic Hodges, said: "I respect that they have a right of appeal against a planning permission, or in this case an enforcement notice, but it is only right and proper that we defend our position and defend it robustly."
