Planning bosses have voiced serious reservations about a bid to nearly double the rubbish handled by a controversial waste plant.
Gent Fairhead was granted permission to build a waste management facility on Rivenhall Airfield in 2009 but is wrangling with planning authorities over what form it will take.
It has amended its original plans,which could now see up to 595,000 tonnes of waste a year being shipped to the site – 98 per cent more than the 300,000 tonnes first proposed.
After a consultation, Tessa Lambert, development manager for Braintree Council, said the economic downturn and the opening of the Courtauld Road waste facility in Basildon had led to the amendments.
In a letter to Essex County Council, she said the district council had "serious reservations" about the county council's decision to consider such a significant change to the plans.
Witham Town Council’s environment committee voted to oppose the amendment, calling for a new application to be submitted.
See this week's Braintree and Witham Times for more.
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