ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are holding a public meeting this week at a school less than a mile from a proposed new waste plant.

Enfield, Haringey, and Barnet Green parties are meeting to discuss opposition to the plans for a major new waste site of the A406 in Pinkham Way.

They have chosen Hollickwood School, in Muswell Hill, as the venue for Thursday's meeting, as it is within a mile of the site selected by the North London Waste Authority for the plant.

The parties are part of a wider coalition trying to stop the plans from going any further, arguing pollution and traffic congestion would increase substantially and that the area is residential and the wrong location.

Members add that the plant, if built, would destroy a Grade 1 conservation site sheltering rare bats and plants which has developed on the site.

Darren Johnson, Green Party London assembly member, who will be speaking to the meeting said: “While it is vital that we have new facilities in London to deal with waste, I do not believe that huge facilities of this size or type are the way forward or appropriate in congested urban areas.

“The North London Waste Authority should be putting far more emphasis on encouraging collection of doorstep recycling and food waste, rather than concentrating on large new plant for unsorted black bin waste such as this.”

The meeting at the school, in Sydney Road, is due to start at 7.30pm and is open to all.