Carpenter create jobs
A FOAM manufacturer is creating between 50 and 70 jobs at its base in Glossop.
Carpenter, which makes foam for furniture, bedding and carpet underlay, is to create additional floor space at its operations on the town’s Dinting Lodge industrial estate.
The news comes as a result of the company’s expansion plans being given the go ahead by High Peak’s development control committee on Monday night.
The development had been recommended for refusal, but members of the committee decided that creating more jobs was more important in a time of recession and economic instability.
Carpenter said an area of mature trees would be affected by the proposals but it was proposing a substantial planting programme and wildlife habitat.
Cllr Chris Webster, who sits on the committee, said he was delighted with the news.
He said: “We had a site visit and mulled over the decision. I voted in favour. The committee has made the right decision.”
The company, which employs 160 people, had said improvements to facilities were essential for it to continue to compete effectively.
Carpenter’s carpet underlay division at Dinting focuses on recycling foam offcuts which would otherwise have ended up in landfill.
The expansion work will add 12,000 sq metres of space to the firm’s HQ and will start in the new year.
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Amazing this post. Will such environmental flip-flopping extend to allowing the small businesses to engage in Greenfield development too, or don’t they pay well enough? Let me get this straight, When the local economy is good Carpenter can’t expand, harming business development, harming it at the expense of competitors, decreasing Carpenters viability, making it initiate cost cutting exercises and laying off staff, making the local economy gloomy. And in gloomy local economic climate it is allowed to expand. Does anyone else see anything unusual about this? Are they going to employ unemployed people? Are those people going to be local? Are their jobs going to be guaranteed?
Anyway, isn’t it the ‘business first, environment last’ attitude that has already caused global environmental damage? Is carpenter going to plant trees in the countryside or convert a Brownfield site back to nature? If the former then it’s going to destroy a second site by perturbing it’s environmental equilibrium. So it’s a Brownfield site they will greenify is it? Who will monitor this? Who owns the land Carpenter is supposed to Greenify? From who will Carpenter buy their Greenifying materials? Who will they employ to Greenify it?
As for this: “Carpenter’s carpet underlay division at Dinting focuses on recycling foam offcuts ” – Really? Michael, where did you get this information – via Carpenter’s PR office? So they don’t actually produce any pollution then? So they don’t use isocyanates and there isn’t any waste plus they don’t produce CO2? Personally I don’t think CO2 is an issue environmentally, but I’m sure our councillors will not hesitate to use it as an issue – whenever it’s convenient to do so.
Would the title of an article like this every say “Carpenter granted permission to create more industrial pollution?”
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Carpenters plan on moving operations from their Royton site to the Dinting site, so they won’t be creating any new jobs whatsoever. It will only mean more commuting of existing employees into Dinting, hence more pressure on the A56.
In the last EPER report, Carpenters were the largest polluter to air of Dicholomethane ( a probable cause of Cancer and Genetic Defects ) in the WHOLE of the UK. This would only get much much worse with the expansion.
The only conclusion I can come to is that either Cllr Chris Webster and those who voted in favour of the expansion are either incompetent, were duped by Carpenters or are receiving some kind of backhander.
Some info on Dicholoromethane: from the UK’s enviroment agency: Dichloromethane is a Category 3 carcinogen which defines substances that cause concern owing to possible carcinogenic effects.
Dichloromethane released to air locally will slowly degrade, though it may have some impacts on local wildlife if released in very large quantities ( Carpenters @ Dinting are the largest polluter of this chemical in the entire UK ).
As dichloromethane is only slowly broken down in air, it may travel over significant distances ( and the land right next to Carpenters just off Dinting road has been earmarked for possible development…nice ).
Excessive exposure to dichloromethane may affect the blood, brain, digestive system, eye, heart, kidney, liver and skin, and may have possible carcinogenic effects.
It’s good to know that our local council has our interests at heart…oh wait.