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(Updated 30/07/09)

Some images courtesy of The Tamworth Herald

Warwickshire County Council, in partnership with Staffordshire County Council, have submitted a planning application to turn the existing Lower House Farm into a Household Waste Recycling Centre and Waste Transfer Centre.

Initially it was designed as a replacement for the Recycling ‘tip’ at Grendon Spon Lane, however the project has grown to include a Waste Transfer Centre.

What is a ‘Waste Transfer Centre’?

The facility will receive kerbside collection waste (Wheelie Bin Collection Waste) and sort it into recyclable and non-recyclable. It will then be reloaded onto bulk haulage vehicles and transported to either Recycling Facilities or the proposed Waste Centre at Four Ashes, Wolverhampton. This means in simple terms that up to 8 Council Bin Lorries an hour will bring their waste to the centre for it to be sorted then leave the site on 55 foot Bulk Waste Lorries. The site will also be available to Commercial Vehicles (8 wheel lorries are shown on the Planning Application drawing!) but they do not say how many of these may potentially visit the site each day! If this development went ahead it would see 20 Tonne vehicles travelling along a Country Lane!

The site has been designed to accept a large quantity of vehicles. All of these vehicles will be travelling along the Lane known as Lower House Lane/Boulters Lane/Gypsy Lane from either the Dordon A5 Island end or via the village of Wood End. Lower House Lane is a rural road, not a major road within an industrial estate!

This will have a Major Impact on the Local Community

Wood End Community Association (WECA) have created an information leaflet.
Click here to view this in PDF or Word document.

Roy Burton (Warwickshire County Council) said at the Area Forum West Meeting on that up to 1,000 cars a day use similar site and this amount of traffic combined with up to 8 HGV movements an hour is going to create what can only be described as a TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE.

The plans do show that the entrance will be created to encourage vehicles to turn towards the A5 end of the Lane when leaving, but this can not be enforced so traffic will not doubt travel back along the Lane and through Wood End other villages such as Dordon, Hurley, Whateley, Kingsbury, Picadilly etc.

There is currently a weight restriction on the Lane from its entrance at the A5 Dordon Island, right along and through Wood End to the Trinity Road Junction. This development will allow HGV vehicles to travel along the Lane. The Lane is already poor in places, these vehicles will not help!

The development, which has grown from the 3 acres as shown at the Pre Planning Public Consultation Event held at Wood End School on to 6 acres. This development is going to have a major impact on the local community and we as a local community need to stand up and make our voices heard.

The site will be open from 7.00am till 10.00pm Mon to Fri and 7.00am till 6.00pm Sat & Sun. The site is situated on a hill and the noise that this development will undoubtedly create will affect the local villages, not to mention the smell of up to 7 day rotting waste wafting over the fields.

Please could you take a few minutes to write or email Warwickshire County Council with your views on this application.

WECA (Wood End Community Association) have created an appendix sheet which can be printed off and sent in with your personal letter if you wish. Click here to download in PDF or Word document

If anyone feels we have not mentioned something which you feel is an important objection, please email us info@notowastecentre.co.uk