Westminster Hall
15 July 2026
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Westminster Hall House of Commons
00:09 - 00:14
Speaker 3
Order, order. Lorraine Beavers to move the motion.
00:14 - 02:33
Speaker 2
Thank you, Mr. Morrison. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the chair today. And I beg to move that this House considers the matter of the impact of waste management sites in local communities. For nearly three years, the people of Fleetwood have been forced to live with an intolerable smell from the Jameson Road landfill site. They have complained, protested, and reported the effects on their health to the council, the Environment Agency, the government, and to me as their Member of Parliament.
Over the past two and a half years, the Environment Agency has taken increasingly severe action against the operators of the site. Each time after the operator has breached their permit and acted unlawfully in the process. And still the smell remains. And as time and at times recently, it has been worse than ever. In March of this year alone, more than 4,000 complaints was made.
The central point I wish to make today is that this is proof of a broken regulatory system. That residents can make thousands of complaints, that people and businesses can be forced to leave an area, all because of an operator acting unlawfully, and residents are still being left breathing the same foul air. If the system we have cannot prevent that from happening, then it is broken. If the purpose of the regulatory system is that it can record suffering, issue notices, and hold neat meetings, but not prevent suffering by the local community, then the purpose and objectives of the system are the wrong way round. In Fleetwood, it is as simple as this: a private company is making money from stinking out the entire town and damaging livelihoods, breaking the law in the process, while the British state appears too weak, too slow, and too broken to stop it.
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