Residents in Denholme will have a chance mext week to voice their feelings about a proposed new waste tip in the town. A public meeting on Monday has been organised by Denholme town councillors, who are keen to gauge public feeling about the proposed new tip at Buck Park before coming to a decision.

Humberside-based consortium Wastewise wants to build a tip at the current site of Buck Park Quarry, next to Whalley Lane. The company has already applied for outline planning permission to develop the site into a modern waste tip with a capacity for 2.4 milliion cubic metres of waste.

Wastewise says the scheme will cater for the 200,000 tonnes of waste produced every year in the Bradford area for the next 10 years.

If it receives the go-ahead, the venture would free up around £2.5 million of landfill tax cash, to be used on environmental projects in and around Denholme.

Opponents of the scheme claim a new tip would bring increased traffic on the busy A629, as well as the problems of fly and vermin infestations. The public meeting takes place on Monday at 7.30pm in the Blue Room of the Mechanics Institute.

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Permission was granted for the conversion of a barn at Holden Park Farm, Holden Lane, Silsden to a new home despite a recommendation from the parish council that it be refused.

The planning sub-committee, however, concluded that the proposal would not spoil the open character of the area and was in keeping with the farm buildings.

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