July 2008 – Planning Application Submitted to Derbyshire County Council – submitted by Encia (the agent), on behalf of Cyclamax Holdings (at the time Encia owned 37.5% share in Cyclamax). Plant would be run by ‘Sheepbridge Resource Park Ltd’, set up especially for this project. Application is to handle 75,000 tonnes of hazardous & non-hazardous types of commercial & industrial waste – the vast majority (80% or 60,000 tonnes) will be used to feed the gasification plant, just 17-20% will be recycled. Gasification plant will run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It will create at least 60 HGV movements a day (one every 10 mins), with around 370 vehicle movements in total each day.

End August/Early September 2008 – local residents became aware of planning application, and Chesterfield Against Incineration formed (only 2 neighbours received official notification)

October 2008 – first public meeting on incinerator – Whittington Moor Methodist Church (requested by campaign group, organised by local community forum) over 400 turned out, not enough room & meeting over-ran

December 2008 – the draft ‘Preferred Options report’ /Derbyshire’s Waste Development plan, in which the Cammac site was identified as a possible site for waste management (without any local public consultation), was considered unsound by county’s legal team and withdrawn, meaning DCC have to re-start the forming of their Waste Core Strategy.

January 2009 – second public meeting – Winding Wheel, Chesterfield – around 700 attended.

26th January 2009 – Chesterfield Borough Council’s Planning Committee, as consultees, voted unanimously that planning permission should be refused

March 2009 – Special Meeting at Matlock for the campaign group to present concerns to Derbyshire County Council’s planning committee – but only one full member of the planning committee attended.

May 2009 – Cyclamax submitted their Environmental Permit Application to the Environment Agency, original notification said for the public to respond in writing by 19th June, but due to errors made by Cyclamax (attaching wrong list of hazardous waste types to be burned) application had to be re-advertised.

June 2009 – County Council Elections – Conservatives won overall control at Matlock, following 28 years of a Labour-controlled Council.

Septembers 2009 – Hundreds attended the Environment Agency open day on 7^th Sept to express their concerns

October 2009 – on Monday 5th October Chesterfield Against Incineration held a public meeting at the Phoenix Hall in Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School. The meeting was a chance to update the public on the application. Professor Paul Connett, a world renowned toxicologist/expert on the health impact of incinerators also presented, to the packed audience of 400+ local residents, business owners and councillors.

On Friday 9^th of October a Special Meeting was held in the County Hall at Matlock, where Chesterfield Against Incineration, along with Cyclamax, presented their cases to the planning committee.

The meeting was again well-attended by the public and certainly demonstrated the over-whelming opposition to this planning application in the community.

Both meetings, in Dronfield and Matlock, raised awareness and concern so much in the Dronfield/North East Derbyshire particularly that a separate campaign group, Dronfield Against Incineration, was set up. This group is now working alongside Chesterfield Against Incineration to help raise awareness and oppose this application.

November 2009 – On 7^th November a rally, organised by Dronfield Against Incineration, was attended by hundreds of concerned residents, once again demonstrating the strength of feeling in the local community.

On Tuesday 17^th November, North East Derbyshire District Council held a special meeting to discuss the implications of the planning application. The meeting followed previous motions put forward by Councilor Stuart Ellis for the council to discuss the issue. Following presentations from members of the Dronfield Against Incineration team and a debate amongst councilors (Cyclamax were also invited, but failed to attend) an almost unanimous decision was reached for the council to formally object to the plans – 39 councillors voted to object and 1 abstained.

A decision on the application, by Derbyshire County Council, will be made at either the 4^th January or 25^th January Planning Meeting.