Residents' misery over recycling unit is not over yet

Embittered residents will face up to one more month of noisy overnight lorry trips at the hands of a recycling operation in Taplow.

The decision on the fate of Severnside's last few months at its Mill Lane site was released this week by a planning inspector, who  also decided that the working week at the industrial site will jump from five-and-a-half days to seven days.

At the two-day public inquiry last month the firm argued it needed to continue its round-the-clock night trips until it left for a new site in Hillingdon in around four months time.

But government inspector Wendy McKay has decided that it must stop its late night lorry movements, where heavy goods vehicles pass just metres from houses on the narrow lane, within four weeks.

The company, which appealed against enforcement notices issued by Bucks County Council which argued it was flouting planning laws, will be able to operate later in the afternoon on Saturdays as well as 'factory' duties, but not lorry trips on Sundays.

Residents have claimed in the long-running dispute that they have had to endure ‘sleepless nights’ from the lorry runs and plant activity.