Waste company wants to tip until 2016

A WASTE disposal company is seeking planning consent to try on tipping operations until 2016 on a controversial landfill site at Warrington.
Collier Waste would also require a further year to complete restoration of the site off Moss Side Lane, Rixton.
Borough planning officers are recommending the proposals be approved, despite objections from nearby residents and from Rixton-with-Glazebrook Parish Council, from borough councillor Bill Brinksman and from nearby residents.
Householders claim they have to endure smells, fumes, vermin, noise, flooding and a loss of visual amenity.
They say the tipping has damaged the Green Belt, involved the loss of farm land and results in increased heavy traffic on local roads.
Tipping has been carried out in the area since the 1940s and planning consent for the current site – originally two adjoining sites – dates back to 1996.
Planning officers say there will be no increase in the amount of tipping as raising levels in one part of the site will be compensated for by reduced levels in another.
Although increased levels will have an impact, the site is already a dominant feature in the area and a rise of some three metres will not make any significant difference.
A report to Warrington’s development management committee indicates there is potential for the site to have an impact on the Rixton Clay Pits, a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of its population of Great Crested Newts.
But the applicants are proposing a pre-development mitigation scheme in which they would trap the newts and relocate them to ensure the habitat and population of Great Crested Newts within the site would be safeguarded.