Waste plan: 5,500 sign petition

PROTESTORS against plans for a waste landfill site at Ashdown Brickworks turned out in force to quiz planning experts at Bexhill Town Hall.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jan 2003, 08:39 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:22 BST

The public gallery has rarely been so full as district planning officer Les Robinson told members of the Bexhill Against Landfill and Incineration (BALI) campaign that Rother will stand shoulder to shoulder with them when the county council's waste plan is brought before a Public Inquiry in May.

Landfill proposals at Ashdown Brickworks, Turkey Road, date back to 1988 and form a key part of the plan because current sites at Pebsham and Lewes will be full to capacity in four to five years.

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Owners Ibstock are keen to start using the site for landfill as soon as possible. They want permission to use four adjoining fields for stockpiling their clay reserves - thus freeing up their own land for landfill use.

But BALI has drummed up a petition of 5,500 Bexhill residents appalled at the thought of another landfill site in the town and Rother has come up with a list of reasons why further development at Ashdown is impossible.