Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been given permission to build a new energy centre with three giant chimneys, each up to 200ft (60m) tall.

Cambridgeshire County Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the £36 million project yesterday despite residents’ concerns about the height of the chimneys – each taller than Nelson’s Column – and the possibility of toxic waste raining down on their homes.

The facility will rival the existing hospital chimneys, which stand at 260ft (80m) tall.

It will be built in the south-west corner of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, south-west of Robinson Way and east of Francis Crick Road, and will cut the hospital’s carbon emissions by 47 per cent by burning clinical waste, gas and biomass to make environmentally friendly heat, hot water and electricity.

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