Residents of Tattenhoe – both current and future – your neighbourhood is under threat. The Council’s plan to acquire sites in Snelshall (on Anderson Gate between Steinbeck Crescent and Snelshall Street) for a new waste recycling centre. It’s a decision that will directly affect everyone. Families, schoolchildren, and community members will soon be living right next door to a household waste recycling centre that promises increased traffic, unpleasant odours, and disruptive noise. Local schools and neighbourhoods are at risk of degraded quality of life and falling property values.
Waste sites: Bad Neighbours
This waste site will be larger than the three currently running, combined. You are also poised to shoulder the burden as future construction relies on capital receipts and tariff allocations.
With additional traffic expected not only from this site but also from the Salden Chase, Shenley Park, and Tattenhoe Park developments, safety and daily convenience will be compromised.
We must also question why a larger, no-cost site that was once planned for MK East was set aside. According to the council papers, suitable sites for Household Waste Recycling Centres have always been hard to come by—the Council itself labels a waste site as a “bad neighbour.”
Residents must act now to stop this
With Milton Keynes City Council moving ahead with their vision for these super sites, and delegating authority to the Director for Environment and Property to negotiate and complete the acquisition of the sites, we need to step up now and ask them to reconsider their decision.
We have a long history of having our voices ignored in planning consultations, as we saw in the recent Save the Kingsmead Green campaign.
Cllr Manish Verma and Cllr Shazna Muzammil have demanded that the decision to build a new waste site in Snelshall Street be called in for further scrutiny—and residents have done the same.
Sign our petition here: Petition · Say NO to Super Site Waste Recycling Centre in Tattenhoe - Tattenhoe, United Kingdom · Change.org