{"id":66950,"date":"2025-08-14T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66950\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:57:08","slug":"row-over-burnley-councils-waste-transfer-station-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66950\/","title":{"rendered":"Row over Burnley Council’s waste transfer station plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This would enable Burnley Council to get the development up and running by 1 April 2026 when Lancashire County Council’s (LCC) contract with SUEZ to use the Whinney Hill landfill site ends.<\/p>\n

The council said the new WTS would avoid the estimated \u00a31.6m a year cost of taking borough waste to Lancashire County Council’s alternative recycling facility at Farrington near Leyland.<\/p>\n

Anwar accused Townsend and the Labour group of “disinformation” in the leaflet and associated social media posts, the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

He said: “This is just scaremongering for political advantage.<\/p>\n

“Councillor Townsend and the Labour group are being petty and pathetic.<\/p>\n

“We take tough decisions head on.”<\/p>\n

Burnley Council’s environment boss, Councillor Howard Baker, said: “This plan ensures Burnley meets new waste disposal rules while reducing as far as possible any extra burden on taxpayers.<\/p>\n

“To be clear, these plans do not create a new landfill site in Burnley.”<\/p>\n

He said it would be enclosed and emptied daily, with “filtered air extraction to prevent odours at a location 500 metres away from the nearest residential home”.<\/p>\n

“Residents should not be concerned about noise, rats or seagulls,” he added.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Townsend said: “It’s not the first time when having no response to serious questions that Councillor Anwar has resorted to personal insults instead of addressing genuine resident concerns with his decisions.<\/p>\n

“I can live with that. I’ll support residents fighting for their community when he fails to.”<\/p>\n

He said the accusation of misinformation was “desperate stuff” and he stood by what was in the leaflets.<\/p>\n

“If it wasn’t for Labour councillors seeking residents’ views only a handful in Briercliffe would know anything about the new WTS,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This would enable Burnley Council to get the development up and running by 1 April 2026 when Lancashire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-66950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}