“A protest against a planned clinical waste incinerator near Harthill is to take place this weekend.

“Residents of Harthill, Eastfield, Greenrigg, Shotts, Breich and Fauldhouse have all raised concerns about plans to build a waste treatment facility at Hassockrigg, a former opencast mine site on Shotts Road.

Healthcare Environmental Services lodged a planning application with North Lanarkshire Council in February to relocate an existing clinical waste treatment facility from the Centrelink 5 industrial complex in Shotts and add an advanced thermal treatment plant.

SEPA have already objected to the application on the grounds of lack of information, and I hope others who may be concerned about this development, including the communities noted above who may have some concerns about this development, can lodge their complaints in the usual manner.

Protests seem to be entirely inappropriate.