Sellindge Sludge Plant

Publication date: 11-06-2008

Residents of Sellindge, near Ashford, already reeling from county council plans for a vast lorry park on the edge of their village, have been hit by another development blow – an industrial sludge processing plant.

To CPRE Kent's great concern, Countystyle Recycling Ltd has submitted an application to Shepway District Council for an ‘anaerobic digestion plant’ to treat organic waste on the outskirts of the village, on the A20 between Ashford and Folkestone. The plant would bring more than 150 lorries a day in and out of the site.

The application has been passed on to Kent County Council to decide.

We have numerous concerns including:

• increased lorry traffic through the villages of Sellindge and Newingreen
• noise, dust and odour problems from the buildings and vehicles
• intrusive industrial buildings in a beautiful rural setting of the East Stour valley
• pollution risk to tributaries to the East Stour and the underlying Lower Greensand aquifer
• methane emissions as a process by product, which is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas

We are working with local residents to oppose this scheme.

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Associated Districts

• Shepway

Associated Campaigns

• Waste
• Tranquillity