Recycling firm's bid to expand

A RECYCLING company at Warrington is making a new bid to win permission to extend its operating hours.
ADS Recycling, of Camsley Lane, Lymm is applying for a lawful development certificate to allow longer working hours on the grounds that planning conditions had been breached continuously for more than 10 years and therefore were unenforceable.
Earlier this year the company made a similar application and produced signed witness statements to support their application.
But a statement signed by 35 nearby residents disputed the claim, and planning bosses decided to support the residents.
Now the company has produced more signed statements, plus a letter from a Camsley Lane residents, in support of their case.
Planning officers are recommending that the planning committee again refuse the company’s application.
They say the council has no specific evidence to contradict the applicants’ version of events, but that the residents’ statements carry as much weight as those of the applicant.
But the onus of proof lies with the applicant and, on the balance of probabilities, they are recommending the lawful development certificate be refused.
From the outset, Cllr Graham Welborn has supported residents.
He claims the company has increased the volume and type of recycling carried out, resulting in increased early morning noise and traffic over the last 12 months.
The original conditions had been designed to protect residential amenity and neighbours’ rights would be ignored if breaches were allowed.