PROTESTERS will descend on Enfield Civic Centre tomorrow to call for Labour councillors to stand up against the proposed Pinkham Way waste plant.

A demonstration is planned ahead of the full meeting of Enfield Council, urging the cabinet to oppose the controversial project.

Conservative opposition councillors have tabled a raft of questions on the Pinkham Way issue, along with a motion denouncing the former waste treatment plant site as unsuitable for the major plans put forward by the North London Waste Authority.

And stoking the fires further, Tory MP for Enfield Southgate David Burrowes has called for council leader Doug Taylor to personally stand up against the plans.

Mr Burrowes called for the Labour administration to put residents “out of their misery” by standing against the Pinkham Way plan and pulling its support for the North London Waste Plan, which includes the new waste management site.

He added: “Time is running out for the council to stop blaming each others and start listening to my constituents and say no to Pinkham Way.”

Councillor Chris Bond, cabinet member for environment, signed up to the waste plan on May 11 this year, but in written answers to questions from Conservative councillors, blamed the Tories for not blocking the Pinkham Way plan when they were in power in 2009.

He said: “The planning application for Pinkham Way would not be here for discussion if the previous Tory administration had acted against its inclusion. Conservative members must accept responsibility for this.”

He added that deputy leader of the council Achilleas Georgiou's feelings are “well understood”, after he expressed “deep concerns” over the plans at a public meeting last month.

In a letter to this paper last week, Cllr Georgiou and his fellow Bowes ward councillors said: “We have always been very clear that nowhere in or near Enfield should host further waste facilities: not Pinkham Way; but also not in Enfield, such as the eastern part of the borough, which in recent decades has suffered enough for all of us.”

The protesters, led by the Pinkham Way Alliance group, are due to demonstrate outside the civic centre, in Silver Street, from 6pm tomorrow, and the full council meeting will begin at 7pm.