Where an individual or community group is affected by a polluting development their right to private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the right to enjoyment of possessions under Article 1, Protocol 1, may be violated by that project

"Article 1 of the first Protocol of Human Rights Act (1998) - protects the right of an individual to quiet enjoyment and freedom from interference of his property except in public interest."

Land Raise at the suggested sites is not in the public interest, hugely polluting and could be banned totally before these sites are half full - how can they be justified?

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'.. the possible problems of landfilling are of increasing concern. These concerns include the possible adverse health effects arising from living in the vicinity of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.

Human exposure to potential landfill emissions by respiratory, gastrointestinal or dermal mechanisms warrants further investigation ...

Preliminary data from human toxicology pathway-specific microarrays indicate landfill PM10 presents a comparable geobiological insult to urban PM10 in a human tracheobronchial tissue model ..'