Tetrosyl Campaign in Rochdale

Residents hand Tetrosyl petition to local councillors

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Residents who strongly object to Tetrosyl’s application to store and distribute hazardous chemicals in the refurbished...

ON 8th March, 2017 some residents went to view Tetrosyl’s application for hazardous substance consent. These are available for viewing in the Lodge on the Tetrosyl warehouse site, Royle Barn Road, Castleton. OL11 3DT

Hazardous substances, for which Tetrosyl are applying for consent to store on the site include:

2,000 Kg Petroleum ( Hazardous and Explosive ) least of your worries.

300 Kg LPG ( Hazardous and Explosive ) Already stored on site in greater quantity than stated ---->     (DESPITE NO LICENCE HELD !!! ) <--------- div="">

If the above exploded it would produce equivalent blast and carnage to the IRA bombing of the Manchester Arndale Centre June 1996

add to that

2,000,000 Kg of aerosols ( Hazardous and Explosive ) stored on site

6,000,000 Kg of household, car cleaning and maintenance products; ( Hazardous and possibly flammable & explosive ) stored on site

1,500,000 Kg of oils, fragrances and maintenance sprays ( Hazardous & possibly Explosive ) stored on site

150,000 Kg Peroxide hardeners ( highly explosive oxidisers , unstable and produce poisonous gases. ) stored on site

4,000,000 Kg of Hazardous substances to be moved by 50 lorries in/out each day, i.e. 28,000,000 Kg Hazardous substance moved/week

If ALL the above exploded at once it would produce a greater blast and carnage than the atomic bomb droped on Hiroshima in August 1945

By comparisson, it is estimated the largest explosion in modern times that destroyed parts of Tianjin in China and killed 173 people and injured hundreds more was caused by the explosion of only 800,000Kg of combustible material, yet had the devastation power 25% greater than the atomic bomb droped on Hiroshima in August 1945

Highly flammable and hazardous products like these should not be stored near residential housing. ( IN ANY QUANTITY )
public buildings and facilities should be AT LEAST 1 kilometre away from a site storing dangerous and hazardous, flammable and explosive substances.

The Ex-Woolworths site ( now owned by Tetrosyl ) has already been involved in 2 major catastrophic fires the second being on May 1971 where the entire complex was destroyed by fire.
Woolworths had 2,500,000 Kg of water stored on site in case of Fire, it failed to stop both fires.
Tetrosyl are proposing a 9000Kg Water Deluge tank for their sprinkler system.

Don't tempt fate again, this time any accident would be far far worse, Woolworths was NOT a warehouse of primarily Hazardous, dangerous & Explosive goods.
and Tetrosyl have already demonstrated they are prepared to break the rules, by already storing Dangerous & Hazardous goods on site WITHOUT having obtained a licence for doing so. CAN YOU TRUST TETROSYL WITH YOUR LIVES, HOMES, LIVELIHOOD, CHILDREN and FAMILIES ?

If the Answer is NO then you need to say something NOW, before it is too late !

It is important that residents write to Rochdale Borough Council to make representation against this. The deadline for letters is the 21st March,2017.

If you are worried about a warehouse full of flammable, hazardous and oxidising agents in your town then It is important that residents write to Rochdale Borough Council to make representation against the application to store the dangerous goods. The deadline for letters is the 21st March,2017. If they don't get permission then the dangerous goods will not be stored in Castleton.

The address to write to is

Rochdale Borough Council,

Number One Riverside,

Smith Street,

Rochdale,

OL16 1XU

Deadline for objections is 9th April, 2017