A local Stoke newspaper is reporting that plans to use a warehouse for the storage of clinical waste have been submitted, a move that will without doubt lead to much concern and criticism.

Energy Plant UK Ltd has lodged a planning application to change the use of the former HW Plastics distribution centre in Sir Stanley Matthews Way, Trentham Lakes.

According to the plans, a quarter of the building would be turned into a waste storage and handling area. The remaining three-quarters would be used as a waste processing area, which will be the subject of a future planning application.

Stoke-based Energy Plant UK eventually hopes to use the site to produce energy from waste materials, with 10 full-time workers employed on the site.

Good idea, and presumably based upon some sound estimate of need. But why claim warehouse storage?  Isn’t that misleading?

Planners at Stoke-on-Trent City Council are due to make a decision on the proposals by May 19.