MORE than 20 residents, two councils and three individual councillors have lodged strong objections to a plan to expand a waste recycling centre in the Green Belt near Warrington.
The scheme at ADS Recycling, in Camsley Lane, Lymm involves building two industrial steel portal frame building.
One would be used as a waste reception area and the other to provide a second waste picking station.
Council planners say the development will increase the recycling of materials and so reduce the need for landfill.
But strong opposition has come from Lymm Parish Council, Grappenhall and Thelwall Parish Council, 25 residents and borough councillors Ian Marks, Sheila Woodyatt and Elaine Welborn.
A report to be considered by borough councils planning sub-committee points out the site was originally used for processing animal carcasses.
In 1992 it was given permission to recycle inert waste and for haulage. In 2001, permission was granted for installation of a waste picking conveyor.
Objectors claim the development would be inappropriate in the Green Belt, would cause noise, smells, dust, vermin and loss of rural outlook.
They also believe there will be increased traffic hazards and burning of materials on site and that the development would be detrimental to the nearby Trans Pennine Trail.
Planning officers say many of the objection relate to the existing site and that the proposals will actually improve the situation.
They say there will be no increase in the amount of material processed and no increase in traffic movement.
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Council planners say “the development will increase the recycling of materials and so reduce the need for landfill” and also that, “there will be no increase in the amount of material processed”. Clear thinking again from WBC!