"MAKE your views known and make them quickly". That's the message from a group of Newlyn residents who don't want a household waste recycling centre sited at the former electricity station at Stable Hobba, Newlyn. Members of the Save Newlyn Coombe group, who successfully helped to defeat proposals for a seafood park at Stable Hobba earlier this year, have banded together again to fight this new planning application.
Sita UK has made the application for the recycling centre which would replace the former site at Eastern Green which closed down several years ago and which would handle around 10,000 tonnes of waste a year.
Tony Williams, a spokesman for Save Newlyn Coombe, said: "We are going to set up a petition to fight these proposals and we are urging everyone who is against the scheme to write to the county council. But they need to do so as soon as possible as all comments must be in by June 23."
Mr Williams said that the group's strongest objections to the proposals were on traffic grounds.
"The estimates are that an extra 300 cars per weekday and 500 at the weekend will use the site.
"I cannot believe that it won't have a major impact on the existing traffic on The Coombe and it will particularly affect the traffic flow at the crossroads with the A30."
Mr Williams also believes that the proposed entrance and exit to the site will pose dangers for traffic and that people arriving early in the morning to dump their waste will have no option but to park in The Coombe.
Other objections concern the possibility of contamination. He said: "The centre will accept hazardous waste such as asbestos and although I'm sure staff at the centre will be properly trained in how to handle it, that may not be the case for the people who bring it in."
Mr Williams also notes that the site is in a flood plain and near a stream and that any smell or noise would be likely to spread towards Penzance with the prevailing winds.
Members of the Save Newlyn Coombe group will be leafleting local residents but Mr Williams stresses the need for urgency.
"If you are not in favour of these proposals, you only have eight days to make your views known."
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