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Site inundated with more than 250 complaints in past year about smell and noise levels Problems with smells, noises and toxic fumes are among hundreds of complaints which have helped to hold up handover of Interserve’s energy-from-waste scheme in Derby, documents obtained by Building have revealed. Interserve is in a 50:50 joint venture with waste management firm Renewi to carry out work on the £145m scheme at Sinfin. The JV, called Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS), had originally been due to finish the scheme for Derby city council and Derbyshire county council in spring 2017 after signing up to the deal back in 2009. The job is one of a number in the contractor’s disastrous portfolio of energy-from-waste schemes which have racked up crippling losses and caused it to seek a second rescue in less than a year. The plant (pictured), which has been built next door to a Rolls Royce factory, began taking in waste last January but has been hit with a string of complaints from lo...

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T e mpers flare at public meeting on pot firm 's pong Tensions boiled over Friday at a public meeting for residents and businesses concerned about an odour coming from a medical marijuana grower operating in a former factory in northwest London. Dale Carruthers Updated: February 15, 2019 Members of the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association listen to Ward 7 Coun. Josh Morgan, right, during a meeting to address the stench emanating from a marijuana growing business at 1490 North Routledge Park in London on Friday. On the panel with Morgan were Donna Szpakowski, general manager of the Hyde Park BIA (middle), and London West MP Kate Young. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press)  Share  Adjust  Comment  Print Tensions boiled over Friday at a public meeting for residents and businesses concerned about an odour coming from a medical marijuana grower operating in a former factory in northwest London. The Hyde Park Business Improvement Associa...