What a huge success for our community! The Government has turned down the application for the Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange (NRFI).
After years of this hanging over us, and all the hard work from everyone in our area, we’ve finally had confirmed what we knew all along; this project is inappropriate.
This will be a huge relief for many people across our area. Any perceived benefit of the Hinckley NRFI was clearly outweighed by the construction and operation of this site, and I’m so pleased to see it has been rejected.
The impact this would have had is so significant I am pleased the Government has finally heard the concerns from Councils, infrastructure groups, the Planning Inspectorate, environmental campaigners, the public and Alberto and I as local MPs, and seen sense to turn down the proposal.
While the developers still have a chance to appeal the decision, I hope they choose not to given the strength of feeling and the substance of the Planning Inspector's report.
I would personally like to say thank you again to everyone who gave their time and effort to make their objections known, I know it’s been a long road but we finally did it!
