Agenda

Extraordinary Meeting 2, Full Council - Monday, 17th January, 2022 7.35 pm

Venue: Tottenham Green Leisure Centre 1 Philip Lane N15 4JA

Contact: Ayshe Simsek, Democratic Services and Scrutiny Manager 

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Items
No. Item

1.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

2.

To receive apologies for absence

3.

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

 

4.

To consider requests to receive Deputations and, if approved, to receive them

Council Standing Order 4.4 states that Rule 11, shall apply to extraordinary meetings, but deputations will only be received where its purpose is related to an item of business on the summons.

5.

To consider the following Motions in accordance with Council Rules of Procedure No. 13 pdf icon PDF 165 KB

Motion E

 

Withdraw support for the Edmonton Incinerator

 

Proposer: Councillor Scott Emery

Seconder: Councillor Tammy Palmer

 

Council notes that:

  • Haringey has declared a Climate Emergency, and has committed to becoming net-zero carbon by 2041;
  • Residents have not been consulted on the Edmonton Incinerator project since 2015;
  • Renewal of the incinerator would cost over £1 billion, and could produce 700,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year;
  • Incinerators are far more polluting than even coal-fired power plants, for example releasing 2.5 times as much CO2 and three times as much nitrous oxides;
  • There are no plans for carbon capture facilities to be built alongside the incinerator;
  • In 2019/20, Haringey had a recycling rate of just 30%, down from 37% in 2014/15;
  • The London Assembly noted in February 2018 that incinerators can negatively affect long-term recycling rates;
  • 10,000 premature deaths are already linked to poor air quality each year in London, and 98% of the city’s schools are in areas where air pollution exceeds World Health Organisation limits;
  • Continued exposure to excessive levels of air pollution has been shown to stunt lung growth in children and worsen chronic diseases.

Council believes that:

  • Industrialised nations like the United Kingdom have a responsibility to reduce their carbon emissions more drastically than developing countries;
  • Continuation of the incinerator project is incompatible with both Haringey’s and the UK’s carbon reduction goals;
  • Given UK government CO2 reduction goals, the incinerator is likely to become obsolete, and possibly illegal, well before the end of its predicted lifespan;
  • A new incinerator would undermine recycling by causing a demand for waste;
  • Presenting landfill and incineration as the only two solutions to dealing with waste is misleading and inaccurate;
  • The future of our country must rely on a circular economy, with an increased focus on reducing waste and on recycling;
  • Building a new incinerator in Edmonton, close to the border with Tottenham, will worsen both economic and racial health disparities.

 

Council resolves to:

  • Pause and reconsider its support for the Edmonton Incinerator project, and lobby other boroughs to do the same;
  • Consult with local communities on their views on how to dispose of our waste;
  • Work with partners on the North London Waste Authority to prepare an alternative plan for waste disposal, which does not involve incineration;
  • Invest in increasing Haringey’s recycling rate.

 

 

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