{"id":292658,"date":"2025-12-01T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:29:23","slug":"fire-system-plan-over-battery-fears-at-eastleigh-recycling-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292658\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire system plan over battery fears at Eastleigh recycling centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new fire suppression and prevention system will require the installation of new plant and machinery at the facility in Tower Lane.<\/p>\n

Fully automated, the system does not rely on human intervention to detect a fire.<\/p>\n

It uses infrared heat detection cameras to monitor stockpiles and identify heat spots before they become visible.<\/p>\n

If early signs of a fire were detected, the system would automatically deploy water cannons, allowing action to be taken before flames take hold.<\/p>\n

A public consultation on the planning application, external<\/a> runs from Friday until 19 December.<\/p>\n

In the 12 months up to March 2025, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service recorded 156 incidents involving lithium batteries, an increase of 64 on the previous year.<\/p>\n

Over the past three years, Portsmouth has experienced 39 battery-related fires. Southampton has seen 24 similar fires, while the Isle of Wight has recorded 18.<\/p>\n

The batteries were found to be the likely cause of fire at a recycling centre in Portsmouth in 2024<\/a> which closed part of the M275 for a weekend.<\/p>\n

It comes as Hampshire County Council has applied to extend temporary planning permission for two of its household waste recycling centres – at Fishery Lane, Hayling Island and at Casbrook near Romsey – for another ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new fire suppression and prevention system will require the installation of new plant and machinery at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-292658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}