LISA Horsfall is certainly right in one respect – ‘Absolute nonsense’ (Keighley News, March 2).

The World Health Organisation report of 2004 on waste incineration related to a different generation of incinerator.

But is not ‘absolute nonsense’ to apply to any industrial waste incinerator sited in a valley the very clear health warning spelt out by WHO.

It is not enough for Bradford Council to assert that there is “no known WHO paper that sets out the same issues for large, modern energy-from-waste facilities”.

Perhaps there are no comparable studies at all? In which case, no knowledge could be a very dangerous thing. In that context, for all the very good reasons already aired publicly, I find it astonishing that council planners could claim Marley to be a suitable site.

To tell the truth, the council was remiss in not keeping the public adequately informed about the various planning applications.

Every household in the area likely to be affected should have been leafleted at crucial stages.

As a result, most residents, myself included, were unaware a new application had been made. Is this how local democracy is intended to work?

Yes, a drop-in session was held in Keighley Civic Centre on July 27, 2016. It was not well advertised, and the date is significant, falling at a time when Keighley families could be expected to be away on holiday. It was there I learned of the non-degrading toxins that will be emitted, of the four-hour period when the plant will be allowed to malfunction before being shut down and much else. I did not come away reassured.

It is good to talk, including through the medium of the Keighley News; we can learn from each other. Openness is also a virtue.

DAVID BATEMAN Riddlesden