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The Secretary of State had earlier overruled d order by the local council to immediate v remove the chemical drums which local people had been concerned about.
chemnstai pre viously taken over the site from a printing firm COul no Maded because ce was liccucu the site has been allocated 'general use. there is no need tol any other permission to be sought.
This rendous situation exists up many instances even known to the local com. munity.
The Guardian Tuesday explained: "Thousands of firms own factories and warehouses In Britain with chemical stores close by or in the middle of large centres of population, but no knows officially they are...
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Address For mul The managing director of Chemstar, George Molyneux, said ne pected the plant to reopen eventually although he admitted local people did not like the factory being there.
Too right they don't.
As local Conservation Society Frank Swallow, put it, "This is just the nightmare that has come true . If they try to reopen the place, it will be over my dead body.
All the villagers feel the same.
There should be full support for • a pudic In• quiry into the Chemstar explosion. already. As the Sunday Times put it a long ago as 1976, grim equation: people plus chemicals equal risk.
That risk is unacceptable. But as more and more workers are inreatenea wiln ine aole even the little gains that have been made on the health and safety front will become eroded. Even one person's death is a tragedy avoided.
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