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A waste disposal operator is considering serving a proposed site in Warwickshire by rail instead of road to satisfy local objectors and secure planning permission.
West Country-based Terry Adams has told residents living near to the company's planned 53-acre site at the village of Fenny Compton, Works that he will consider transporting waste to the site on an adjacent railway line. Villagers at Fenny Compton and three other small communities have been in uproar since the company submitted its planning application last month. They fear that despite a voluntary agreement offered by the company on routeing vehicles to avoid their villages, some of the 100 truck movements a day will stray as drivers take short cuts. Most of the material to be dumped is expected to come from Birmingham via the M40 and A423T.
Warwickshire County Council is expected to consider the planning application on 9 May. "If the company is considering using rail it would remove the traffic objections," says principal planning officer David Marr. "However, there are still other problems such as dust, noise and visual intrusion from the site."
However Gerry Keay, director at Terry Adams, says a final decision on what type of transport the company will use is still a long way off.
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