Waste Water Treatment Works: Odour Nuisance Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Waste Water Treatment Works: Odour Nuisance

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd April 2019

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Melanie Onn Portrait Melanie Onn
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Forty or 50? If so, the issue is longstanding and needs to be resolved before the weather plays an increasing role and the problem becomes uncontainable. I saw in my research ahead of the debate that if the problem remains unresolved, it will limit how people live their lives, down to not being able to open their windows, have visitors or rent out properties. If residents cannot sell their homes because the area becomes undesirable, that presumably leaves them in a position to seek some form of legal action or compensatory claim. That would be the worst of all worlds: I do not think that anybody wants that outcome.

I ask the Minister to point me in the right direction and suggest some pointers ahead of my meeting with Anglian Water and the local authority, for the sake of the West Marsh residents on whose lives the issue has a significant impact and to solve the problem once and for all.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (in the Chair)
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The debate can last until 1.30 pm. We go from the fragrant hon. Lady to the sweet-smelling Minister.