AN MP is calling on the county to rise up against the construction of a £120 million incinerator which he says will become a “huge white elephant”.

We previously reported how Worcestershire County Council’s planning and regulatory committee will consider the proposed energy-from-waste plant on Hartlebury Trading Estate at its meeting on Tuesday, March 1.

Mid-Worcestershire MP Peter Luff, who has been working with local campaign group WAIL (Worcestershire Against Incineration and Landfill) and Hartlebury and Elmley Lovet parish councils, said the proposal from Mercia Waste Management is “a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem”.

He said: “What is being proposed for the two counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire is to truck all our waste to a massive old-fashioned facility to be built in the green belt at vast cost.”

The committee meeting, which will start at 10am at County Hall, will be webcast so people can watch it live online.