Local residents are up in arms again about a sickly sweet
smell wafting across the town. We already had a campaign about this back in 2011
when our local Environmental Health officers asked people to keep ‘smell
diaries’ so they could compare them against activity at the local business which
was the most obvious suspect: Drytech. Amongst other things, Drytech produce
aromatics for foodstuffs.
The officers claimed there was no evidence that the smalls
correlated with anything Drytech were doing. So I made a Freedom of Information
request for the data. Guess what? It was refused on the grounds for commercial confidentiality.
So, the only company manufacturing and testing aromatics is, apparently, not responsible
for an artificial smell making life difficult for local residents. This despite
the fact that, under section 79 Environmental Protection Act 1990 councils have
a positive duty to inspect their local area to identify probable nuisance and
deal with it.
Twitter and facebook are alive with the sound of Tonbridge people’s
jaws dropping. Have a look at http://www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-Tonbridge-Smells
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