Public fury about plans for waste tip

ADEQUATE provision has already been made for future waste tips in West Sussex,and the county council does not need sand-based Rock Common as a tipping site for the future, an exraordinary meeting of Washington Parish Council heard on Thursday night last week.

By The Newsroom

Published 20th Mar 2007, 15:23 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:11 BST

The village hall was packed as more than 200 people crammed in to discuss a planning application by Veolia Environmental Services to fill the 59 acre quarry site with 7.3 million cubic metres of domestic, commercial and industrial waste.

If Veolia's plan goes ahead, work would start in 2009/2010 and would take an estimated 25 to 30 years to fill and a further 60 years beore the land had stablised.

But the meeting was told that West Sussex County Council did not have a shortfall for landfill sites. It had already precluded Rock Common from its list of suitable sites, partly because it was sand-based and had multiple aquifers.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette March 21

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