News Release – 29.07.2020

Gigantic 280 foot high waste chimney set to tower over West Sussex if a planning application is approved. 

*A 280ft or 85m high, waste stack chimney at the gigantic Ford Energy Recovery Facility and Waste Transfer & Sorting facility, will tower above West Sussex and permanently scar the landscape for miles around if allowed to go-ahead warns Ford Parish Council.

The new application for the site, which was quietly lodged at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown by Ford Energy, is seeking permission to build a vast new waste facility, twice the size of the scheme currently consented (see plan at bottom) - but never constructed.
To give this ‘monster’ proposal some perspective, the waste stack chimney if allowed to go ahead would put the majestic Chichester Cathedral in the shade – being a full 3 metres higher than the tip of the spire of the beautiful medieval cathedral.
Put another way, the height of the chimney equates to the height of 10.5 normal houses placed one on top of the other, all within a stone’s throw from the National Park and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

At 51 metres or 167 feet high, the proposed roof structure of the main building is big enough to swallow many of the most distinctive local buildings including Arundel Cathedral, the Sky Pavilion in Bognor Regis and the Kingsmere Apartments, Littlehampton.

The consultation period concludes on Sunday 9th August 2020.

https://westsussex.planning-register.co.uk/Planning/Display/WSCC/036/20

*Source: Yapton local facebook page