From the ever-excellent Skwawkbox today:

Residents of Garston and Cressington in the south of Liverpool have begun the formal legal process to overturn the decision by the city’s Labour council to approve a site that will process more than double the quantity of a mix of dangerous chemicals that caused the 1974 Flixborough disaster, one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in human history, with a blast radius of over three miles that killed twenty-eight people in a rural area.

Despite the Flixborough inquiry’s conclusions that the chemical should not be processed near residential areas, he council’s planning committee did not even discuss the risk of explosion before approving the construction of the site, only 200m from the nearest school and nearby housing estates. In light of the much larger quantities ultimately to be processed at the site, the potential blast radius could reach almost to the city centre six miles away. The planning committee was also told that there was no need an outside assessment of the dangers of the site, because its officers were the ‘independent’ investigators and had assessed Veolia’s reports.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/02/16/liverpool-residents-launch-legal-process-against-timebomb-chemical-processing-site/

The owners, Veolia, of London, operate in Scotland too: