Burning issue for old Lec site

I remember reading some time ago about West Sussex County Council realising we are running out of space for landfill. The Lec site would be ideal to build an incinerator.

Among the numerous arguments for this are:

n It's already a brownfield industrial site.

n Easy road access ... even railway access!

n It's on the town outskirts.

n We could generate a good deal of the power we use (electricity, gas and perhaps some heating), harnessing most, if not all, the bi-products of combustion '“ and charge other counties for disposing of their rubbish!

Some of the arguments against would be:

n It'll be an eyesore on the way into the town (this is an easy solution; we'll hide it behind some trees!)

n It'll be '˜smelly' and pollute the air (technology has moved on since the incinerator at Havant! Technology now means we could almost achieve clean exhaust. What we can't clean up, the trees will do!)

n It will be '˜noisy' (it shouldn't be any noisier than Lec was in its heyday).

Andrew ET Clark,

Hampshire Avenue, Bognor Regis

I noted with interest the article on '˜Approval of Lec site blueprint on the cards' (Observer, last week).

I also noted a picture of our newly-refurbished and recently-occupied office and warehouse was used in the same article.

Could I put the minds at rest of the Wiley employees who work at the featured New Era House that their workplace is not about to be redeveloped.

Sime Darby actually sold the part of the site featured in the picture more than a year ago to HSBC, the current landlord. Wiley has signed up to be tenants of this and other parts of the former Lec-occupied Oldlands Way site for a good many years to come.

Jim Dicks, director of John Wiley & Sons Ltd