Residents win another round in plans battle

RESIDENTS have won another round in the ongoing battle with a recycling firm which wants to extend its operating hours.
Planning chiefs have refused an application by ADS Recycling, of Camsley Lane, Lymm, to vary conditions on its existing planning consent to allow it to operate from 7am
Twenty nearby residents and Lymm Parish Council and Grappenhall and Thelwall Parish Council opposed the application.
The company is allowed to start operations at 8am, although heavy lorries are allowed to leave the site from 7.30am, providing no loading or unloading is involved.
They claim noise from vehicles is “below the level of marginal significance”. They claim their customers require skips to be on site by 7-7.30am which means drivers need to leave the site earlier.
ADS also claimed that their lorries have, in fact, been working the proposed times as normal working hours since 1993 without any impact on the environment or amenity of nearby residents.
The two parish councils objected on the grounds of early morning noise while residents argued that 7am is a time when households should be able to sleep and rest without disturbance.
They claimed noise from the site, and from lorries using the A56 Stockport Road, Thelwall, to reach the site, forced people to keep windows shut and impacted on the use of gardens.
Residents argued that ADS has outgrown the site and should relocate to larger, more assessable premises in an industrial area.
Two previous unsuccessful bids to extend operating hours have been made by ADS during the last 12 months, on the grounds that planning conditions have been breached continuously for more than 10 years and are therefore unenforceable.