A CONTROVERSIAL plan to expand a waste recycling centre on Green Belt land near Warrington is to be considered by planning chiefs for a second time.
More than 20 residents, two councils and three individual councillors have lodged strong objections to scheme at ADS Recycling, in Camsley Lane, Lymm.
Earlier this month, members of the borough council’s planning sub-committee deferred a decision pending a site inspection.
The scheme involves building two industrial steel frame buildings – one for use 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 the 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 objections relate to the existing site and that the proposals will actually improve the situation.
They argue there will be no increase in the amount of material processed and no increase in traffic movement.
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to expand a waste recycling centre on Green Belt
land near Warrington is to be considered by planning chiefs for a second
time.
Green belt recycling row
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