A COUNCIL is set to present objections to plans to re-route traffic via a new one-way system to a controversial tip this week.

Hyndburn Council has been asked for its views on the global scheme submitted to the county council by Preston-based waste management company Sita.

The scheme sets out operational plans for the filling and eventual landscaping of Whinney Hill tip for the next 40 years with household, industrial and commercial waste.

It also proposes the formation of a new access to the site via a one-way system at the junction of Henry Street and Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors.

Although the site is in Hyndburn, the application will be decided by the county council, with Hyndburn Council's views considered along with other consultees.

Residents in Altham, Clayton-le-Moors and Huncoat, who will be affected most by the traffic, have been objecting to the proposals on environmental, health and traffic grounds. Some have also cited vibration damage to their properties caused, they say, by heavy wagons.

Their campaign group, REACH, has been pressing for the new motorway junction and borough councillors have given them their backing.

Sita says a new motorway junction would cost about £4million, but it would be prepared to contribute to get the project started.

Tomorrow,On Wednesday members of the council's development services committee will present their objections to the application.

The site has a capacity of 23.7 million cubic metres and it is anticipated that it will generate 700 journeys a day in and out to meet the daily target of taking 600 tonnes of rubbish a day.

A report to the committee says highways arrangements in the application are 'inadequate' and says other transport options should be considered.

Councillor Tim O'Kane represents the Clayton-le-Moors ward and is also the portfolio holder for the environment and a member of the planning committee. He said: "The residents have got everything right in putting the pressure on."

"They are moving in the right direction and I believe they will ultimately be successful. They haven't been diverted by any red herrings and they have come up with positive proposals, which, I believe, will work for the betterment of the community."

Alan Clitheroe, secretary of REACH, said: "It's given us a lot of confidence that in the first instance the Henry Street proposal is going to be quashed and if Lancashire County Council are going to listen to us on one thing, they will have to listen to us on other things.

"The thing that has helped us is we have not been negative. The fact that we have come up with alternatives has made us more plausible as a committee."

Members of Lancashire County Council's development services committee will consider the application in July.