SHOCK news that another new waste site for the downland area of West Sussex had been included in the county's latest Minerals and Waste Development Framework emerged this week, stunning a community that is just 230 metres from the proposed site.
Broadbridge Farm, Ashington, has been earmarked as a potential area for a new 'open composting' facility, involving a potential new access from the A24 and an estimated 60,000 tonnes of compostable waste from brown-topped bins being deposited there e
very year.
The news has come immediately after a petition was handed in to the county council in Chichester on Friday, opposing a waste landfill site at Laybrook brickworks, between Ashington and Thakeham, and also follows a three-year battle by nearby Washington village which succeeded in preventing a waste tip at Rock Common, south of Ashington.
Roger Yates, chairman of Ashington Residents' Association, alerted the parish council and village to the plans on Monday, urging swift action, and asking residents to respond before the deadline for comments on February 26.
The company which would be running the scheme is Olus Environmental Ltd, which manages green waste from its base at Winterpick Business Park in Hurstpierpoint Road, Wineham, close to the A23.
Read the full report in this week's West Sussex Gazette.