CONTROVERSIAL plans to dump radioactive waste in Kings Cliffe, just 2.5 miles from Apethorpe, have been refused at a high-level meeting in Northampton today.
Waste management company Augean Plc applied to store the low level radioactive waste in Kings Cliffe but following pressure from villagers, local group Kings Cliffe Wastewatchers and Apethorpe's very own Chariman of the Village meeting, Malcolm Winder, the plans were today scrapped.
The plans which could have seen 250,000 tonnes of radioactive waste dumped each year until 2013 right on our doorstep were canned today by Northamptonshire County Council's Development Control Committee.
Malcolm Winder will update Apethorpe villagers on this fantastic news at next week's Village Meeting on Tuesday March 23.
For more on this story go to BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/8570704.stm
Northampton Chronicle and Echo: http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Plans-to-dump-radioactive-waste.6155883.jp
Or the Stamford Mercury: http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/King39s-Cliffe-nuclear-waste-plan.6155782.jp
