WASTE disposal giants Biffa have won permission to continue operations on the Risley landfill site, near Warrington for an extra two-and-half years.
But borough planning chiefs have imposed strict conditions on the consent.
All vehicles delivering restoration soil must access the site directly from Junction 11 of the M62, without travelling through nearby villages such as Culcheth and Croft.
And Silver Lane – where a visitor centre is planned – must be blocked off to prevent unauthorised use by travellers.
In addition, restoration of the site must be completed by the end of March, 2015.
The borough’s development management committee approved a number of applications despite objections and expressions of concern from nearby residents and from Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council, Croft Parish Council and Birchwood Town Council.
These will allow the company to keep plant and machinery on the site until restoration work is finished, to continue using a site haul road and to put back the completion date until March 31, 2015.
Landfill operations finished in October last year and the site is now being restored.
But the company claims there is a shortage of restoration soils needed before trees can be planted and pasture areas seeded.
Nearby residents fear the company may continue to “work the system” by appealing for many years to come to develop or enlarge the site.
They say the scheme is imposing the “maximum visual intrusion” on residents of Culcheth.
For years, residents have complained of noise, smells, pests and traffic caused by the landfill site.
Anger has repeatedly been expressed that planners have allowed the original completion date for tipping to be extended on several occasions.
WASTE disposal giants Biffa have won permission to continue operations
on the Risley landfill site, near Warrington for an extra two-and-half
years.
Biffa win another two-and-a-half years
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Hopefully this is the final chapter, no more tipping is taking place and the process of landscaping is underway. The feeling in general is that the whole process has dragged on far too long and everyone is displeased.
On the positive side we should be left with a site that will become a site of Nature Conservation and in the summer the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum began recording wildlife on to the Cheshire RODIS database (nature wildlife) during its summer meeting at the site. Details of which can be seen on the Facebook site by scrolling down to June 2nd 2012, on the way down you will see lots of other stuff that has been going on in Warrington and afar https://www.facebook.com/?sk=welcome#!/pages/Warrington-Nature-Conservation-Forum/110886079024465
We will be posting further news about our wildlife, flora and fauna findings as and when it they happen on the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum Facebook site.
The meeting also agreed that monitoring must be in place so that we keep track of progress against milestones, the first of which will by stopping up Sliver Lane. It was recognised that there is a long way to go but at least the site doesn’t have the issues of landfill that other sites in Warrington do.
But is it the final final chapter or is it final for the moment?
No chance of financial penalties for the delay I suppose – hitting the bottom line is the only thing some organisations understand?