Neighbour seeks judicial review over Whispers Vinery licence

DIRECTOR of Environmental Health and Pollution Regulation Val Cameron is facing legal action over her handling of the Whispers Vinery affair.

In December 2012 Mrs Cameron granted a licence to B. R. Langlois to operate an industrial wood burner to provide heat for glasshouses for a pepper-growing operation at Rue des Goddards, Castel.

Helen Litchfield, who lives across the road from the vinery, and some 30 metres from the burner, is now seeking a judicial review of the process behind it.

She alleges that Mrs Cameron granted the licence without appropriate conditions and has erred by failing to vary existing conditions or add extra ones.

Between December 2012 and July this year, Ms Litchfield made several complaints to Mrs Cameron regarding various aspects of the operation which she said failed to comply with an EU Waste Incineration Directive.