Battle resumes over recycling firm

HOUSEHOLDERS and a recycling firm at Warrington, who have fought a year-long battle over the company’s bid to extend its operating hours , are going head-to-head again.
ADS Recycling, of Camsley Lane, Lymm is seeking a variation of conditions on its existing planning consent to allow it to operate from 7am.
But 20 nearby residents and Lymm Parish Council and Grappenhall and Thelwall Parish Council are opposing the application.
Planning officers are also recommending the application be rejected.
Currently the company are 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.
The company claims 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 would have to leave the site earlier.
ADS also claim 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 object on the grounds of early morning noise while residents argue that 7am is a time when households should be able to sleep and rest without disturbance.
They say noise from the site, and from lorries using the A56 Stockport Road, Thelwall, to reach the site, forces people to keep windows shut and impacts on the use of gardens.
Residents said ADS has outgrown the site and should relocate to larger, more assessable premises in an industrial area.
Two previous 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.

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