RESTORATION work on the once-infamous Arpley Landfill site at Warrington is to carry on for another two years.
Warrington Borough Council planning chiefs have agreed to allow tip operator 3C Waste to carry on restoration work to continue until April 2024.
Originally it should have been completed at the end of April.
During the years that the sprawling tip was operational there were numerous complaints from residents of the Sankey Bridges area and noise, smells and other problems caused by hundreds of heavy lorries bringing the waste to the site.
But now only about 50 lorries a day visit the site bringing uncontaminated materials for landscaping the former tip.
There have been no objections from residents and officers are confident the local road network is capable of dealing with the traffic.
Most of the former landfill site has already been restored. Eventually, the whole site will be returned to nature, with a network of permissive footpaths, some linking to the Moore Nature Reserve.
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Yeah at least the council won’t have to put lighting along the paths, it will be glowing up green from all the contamination below the ground.