A shambles which ever way you look at it

Words escape me to describe the conduct of the Leeds North West Inner Area Committee meeting tonight. If they don't want the public to attend then say so, but don't treat them with utter contempt when they do want to engage.

Item 10, was the primary area of interest to this campaign, a paper on the consultation process for the Leeds Residual Waste Management Project. Officers from the Council played a poor quality video presentation on what the project was about. Cllrs Atha and Illingworth spoke well against the proposed Waste Transfer Site at Evanston Avenue, Kirkstall. What did come to like from the Video presentation is that Kirkstall in now expected to take 100,000 tonnes per year, that is an increase of 20% on the figures previously presented.

However only one member on the public was allowed to speak, who, rather than asking questions, made a generalised statement of his view on dealing with waste. No further members of the public were allowed to speak. and the meeting was hurried to the next item on the agenda.

The paper before the committee outlining the consultation process was neither discussed, agreed or even noted by the committee in the haste to move on. The chair dismissed any pleas to speak by suggesting comments can be submitted under consultation. However, we wanted to raise concerns about the methods of consultation which is what the paper before the committee was about.

So where do we go from here, who do we approach about the meeting, the Leeds City Councils Chief Executive, Standards, the Press?