CHILDREN from Barry’s schools have dug out their pencils and crayons to depict their views on the controversial Biomass UK No.2 licence application.

Youngsters have designed posters showing the Woodham Road, Barry dock-based plant; the plume they perceive will happen and the effects on their family and friends.

The community is invited to share their poster-designs and take part in a ‘Not In Our Town’ public drop-in session at the OId Post Office Café, in Holton Road, from 10am to 12pm on Saturday.

Eight-year-old Carter Perry has also penned letters to accompany his poster which he hopes to submit to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) as part of its public consultation.

He wrote: “I am worried what will happen if the incinerator is built because the wood chips set on fire. I don’t want any bad air by my school.”

Eight-year-old Bradley Jones wrote: “I think the incinerator is too close to my nan's. I worry about my nan and the cats in the bad air. I think the incinerator being built will be dangerous for people and animals.”

Nine-year-old Rhys Salter added in his letter: “I have a tingle in my back when I say incinerator. I don’t want my family ill or sick or even death. My dad is working by the incinerator. I don’t want him to get ill because of pollution. He has been ill plenty of times. My nan and granddad have asthma and COPD problems. I don’t want them having any more problems. My aunty and uncles live up by the pollution plume and my cousins, four of them under five years old. My cousin has autism. I also have more family in Barry. I don’t want this incinerator.”

Carter’s mum Julia Brunskill, who has three other children, said she was concerned for all generations.

Ms Brunskill, 44, of Gladstone Road, said: “I am concerned about children in the schools in the area. This has brought a lot of people together – from the young to the wise. We wanted to see what else we could do.

“I hope NRW will decide against giving a permit.”