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Charnwood will be the County's Rubbish Dump

Posted on 20/09/2009
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County Hall are set to approve a new waste core strategy this Wednesday, which states that the main waste disposal facility for the County will be between Leicesetr, Loughborough, Shepshed and Coalville, and that non strategic waste sites are to be located at Sustainable Urban Extensions; which are major new housing developments proposed by County Hall. Campaigners fear that this will result in a waste incinerator being located at Newhurst Quarry near Shepshed, with waste transit sites at Thurmaston (A6) and Leicester Forest East (M1).

Two reports issued by Leicestershire County Council in 2007 identified sites throughout the County to be used as SUEs. Entitled