An MP has slammed a landfill company after it emerged a recycling plant being built at a quarry site is taller, bigger and in a different location than permitted.
However, a second planning application filed in the past week said the plant, currently under construction, is ‘materially different’ from the permitted development. Throughput capacity at the plant is set to be 250,000 tonnes of material per year rather than the 150,000 tonnes stated in the approved plans.
READ MORE: Rachel Reeves insists 'this is different' after announcing decade-old plans for Greater Manchester He said “What we’re seeing is a pattern of behaviour from Valencia which shows contempt for the authorities and the wider public. I’ve engaged with the public, with Rochdale and Bury Council’s, our Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and held numerous meetings with the Environment Agency in Bury South and in parliament but despite reaching out to Valencia they’ve never met with me.