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19:14 GMT, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:14 UK

Recycling centre plans discussed

Lower House Farm, Warwickshire

Councillors were due to face protests as they were meeting to discuss controversial plans to build a recycling and waste transfer centre.

The plan for Lower House Farm, near Dordon, has been backed by Warwickshire and Staffordshire county councils.

But residents have said the existing country lane was not suitable for the number of lorries using the site.

Campaigners had said they would protest outside the North Warwickshire Borough Council meeting.

The proposed centre would recycle suitable waste and store other waste for transfer to a proposed incinerator in Staffordshire.

'Traffic problems'

The recycling centre would replace the existing facility in Spon Lane, Grendon, which Warwickshire County Council said was out of date.

The county councils have said it would relieve congestion on the A5 caused by vehicles using the Grendon site.

But campaigner Hannah Cole said the Lower House Farm plan would create traffic problems.

She said: "There are sites and parks in the area which could have been considered that have got the appropriate transport links.

"They're trying to put it into a declassed country lane which just isn't wide enough."



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