Maybe if you talked to your fellow labour councillors this might not happen or do they not trust you any more Leader of the County Council Bill Brooks

Astonishing astounding - yes its another example of NCC riding roughshod over local communities and also an example of Districts who do not trust NCC to do anything other than on the cheap.
Astonishing astonishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Traffic chaos fears over waste complex
Dec 9 2006
By Dave Black, The Journal
Plans to build an £11m waste handling complex in Northumberland have been hit by fears it will create traffic chaos and road hazards for businesses and householders.
The row over the proposed waste recycling and transfer centre on the West Sleekburn industrial estate near Ashington could result in Wansbeck Council refusing to sell land required for the project.
Northumberland County Council and its partner SITA UK want to build the complex to handle 120,000 tonnes of refuse a year as part of a £34m, PFI-funded waste management project to boost recycling rates.
Now - following a heated public meeting earlier this week - district council leaders, traders on the industrial estate and residents are demanding action to improve access and tackle potential traffic problems.
About 220 wagons a day will bring waste into the site on an access road already heavily used by people visiting scrapyards, transport yards, a caravan business, a sawmill and plant hire and skip businesses on the estate.
There are fears that, without a new access road or significant measures to tackle the extra traffic, people in nearby West Sleekburn and Stakeford, along with the local middle school, will suffer.
Yesterday Coun David Nicholson, deputy leader of Wansbeck Council, said he is concerned that the county council and SITA are trying to do the job on the cheap by simply `tinkering' with the existing access road.
"This project has many benefits and I would like to see it go ahead, but as things stand it will mean absolute chaos down there in terms of traffic.
"I am not prepared to support this scheme if the price we have pay is local and vulnerable communities having to suffer."
Ken Forrest, who runs a scrapyard on the estate, said: "I have nothing against the waste plant but it is extremely congested here already and fetching in 220 more lorries a day is going to make things impossible and cause accidents."
Sawmill boss George Cape said: "All this extra traffic to the waste recycling site would make it impossible for our customers to get in or out, because it is absolutely chaotic at present. What we need is a new access road from the Spine Road."
Jean Davidson, secretary of the West Sleekburn residents' association, said: "Traffic through our village is already horrendous and we believe this would make things worse."
County council leader Bill Brooks said: "While it was astonishing to be informed so late in the day of this issue and the possibility of blocking the sale, we are in discussion with Wansbeck District Council to clarify and resolve this matter."