25-02-2025
Site of rejected £1bn waste incinerator near Hatfield to be sold
The site where a £1bn waste incinerator was proposed to be built before the plans were halted by the government is to be County Council said it no longer had "purpose" for the New Barnfield Centre site near Hatfield, where Hatfield School was based until authority had spent nearly £6m supporting the energy-from-waste project before it was turned down by the secretary of state in councillor Bob Deering, executive member for resources and performance at the council, said money from the sale would be "welcome in terms of our overall budget situation".
Government planning inspectors turned down the processing plant on green belt land, calling it an "inappropriate" more than a decade the council retained the site as a possible location for a secondary at a cabinet meeting Mr Deering said there was no longer a "Hertfordshire County Council purpose for it".A council report said if it was marketed with planning permission for industrial use, it could be "very attractive in the marketplace".It did not state its value, the Local Democracy Reporting Service Boulton, Conservative executive member for sustainable economic growth, said the empty school site had been a cost to the council for some time, with the buildings described as being in "poor condition".
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