"Plague" of recycling lorries hits Lyminster, Wick and north Littlehampton

LYMINSTER, Wick and north Littlehampton have been "plagued" by a big increase in heavy lorries since the new state-of-the-art recycling plant opened at Ford, a woman living beside a main road has claimed.

Glyn Daughtery, of Lyminster Road, Lyminster, said the opening of the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which will handle 100,000 tonnes of recyclable waste each year, had led to a "huge" volume of traffic using the A284 road past her cottage.

But West Sussex County Council, which commissioned waste operator Viridor to build and run the plant, said fewer than 10 articulated lorries a day were visiting the site. He also rejected Mrs Daughtery's suggestion that waste was being brought in from outside West Sussex, for processing there.

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Mrs Daughtery said that while people in the Ford and Yapton area had been consulted over planning permission for the MRF, no one had asked people in Lyminster, Wick and Littlehampton what they thought about so many extra lorries "thundering" along their roads.

She added: "The amount of dustcarts and lorries coming down here the last two weeks has been phenomenal. They go past every three or four minutes. Some of the lorries are from Hampshire, London and I even saw

one from Severnside, wherever that is.

"The county council won't let the lorries go down Ford Road, Arundel, so they all seem to be coming this way from all over the county and even further away. It's just pushing the problem from one place onto someone else."

A spokesman for the county council said: "The Ford MRF currently accepts a total of eight or nine articulated vehicles a day '“ four or five delivering material for sorting in, four or five taking separated materials out.

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"Their routes are split between the approach along the A259 from Littlehampton (from its junction with the A284) and from Bognor Regis (from its junction with the A29).

"Because of this, the MRF is not impacting significantly on traffic in the area. Any increase in HGVs could be due to a number of other factors, including increased traffic to and from industrial estates in the area.

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"We would stress that the MRF is NOT taking materials from other parts of the country. However, hauliers coming in to take separated recyclables away will come from various parts of the country and abroad."