Landfill closure puts Cornish operators at risk
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• Thirty skip and haulage companies have staged a four-hour blockade of a Cornish landfill site protesting about its owner's decision to ban trade waste deliveries and put dozens of livelihoods at risk.
John Budd, owner of Redruth based Bu-Mar Skip Hire, says that since 7 November the United Mines Landfill site in Redruth and the St Erth Refuse Station have only been taking household waste.
Budd says he now faces an 80-mile round trip to a site at Liskeard. Other firms have to make a 100-mile trip, he adds. "The costs for me will go sky high," says Budd. "However, I am lucky; I have a transfer station. I know other one-man-band operators who this will kill off." Budd and 30 of his colleagues demonstrated their anger on Monday morning when lorries blockaded the site entrance. "We had to show our anger," he says—and he does not rule out further blockades to overturn the decision made by the site's owners, County Environmental Services.
David Owens, principal planner at the council, says the application will be looked at again by the council's Planning Committee on 2 December. "The original decision was not a Final one," he says. "We are still weighing up Fors and againsts For the extension."