PLANNING bosses at Warrington are recommending a major waste recycling plant be given the go-ahead – even though there can be no guarantees its operation will not lead to complaints.
Angry residents and other nearby businesses have lodged objections to the plan for a recycling transfer building and two industrial units on land at New Cut Lane, Woolston.
Objections have also been lodged by Woolston Parish Council and borough councillors
representing the Woolston and Rixton areas.
The scheme involves a non-hazardous waste transfer and recycling facility handing wood, green waste, hardcore and inert material such as sand, stone, rubble and clay.
Although the site is part of a former landfill site, it runs up to the fenced rear gardens of houses in Greymist Avenue and to industrial and commercial properties to the west and east.
The waste recycling building would be about 75 metres from the nearest houses – but the two industrial units will provide visual and acoustic screening for the properties.
It is estimated the plant would handle about 25,000 tonnes of waste a year and attract about 50 vehicle movements a day, in addition to about 20 movements daily in connection with an existing landscaping business.
Objectors say there will be noise, dust, fumes, increase traffic, ground contaminations and importation of wastes and uncertain waste types.
Planners argue that the plant would contribute to sustainable waste management and increase recycling, reducing landfill.
They say the layout is probably the best that can be achieved to minimise local impact.
But they add: “It cannot be guaranteed that the waste related operations would not give rise to potential occasional complaint.”
