The Environment Agency is investigating ‘foul smells’ from a landfill site after hundreds of complaints those living nearby.
A meeting of Bury Council heard about concerns about odours from the Pilsworth South Quarry landfill site affecting people living in both Bury and Heywood.
Councillors heard that last year, complaints to the Environment Agency (EA), who regulate the site, rose from 100 to 400 and that a petition signed by 2,553 people had demanded action about the acrid smells.
In December, Rochdale Council backed a motion calling for the landfill to be ‘closed and capped off as soon as practicable and before the expiration of the current permit and the operator to have enforcement action taken against them to resolve the concerns of residents’.
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