PLANS to extend the life of a Sankey Bridges tip have finally been submitted by Waste Recycling Group (WRG).

Residents living near Arpley Landfill have until January 25 to submit their objections after waiting more than a year for the application to continue dumping rubbish on the site until 2025.

A number of councillors have vowed to support residents groups opposing the plans after they deemed ‘enough is enough'. Clr Pat Wright said: “Everyone is geared up and ready for the fight.

“I have been sending out letters to residents and speaking to the Saxon Park and Sankey Bridges residents groups to make sure they know the application has been submitted and that they get their objections in.

“There’s no way we want to see it extended until 2025.”

Consultation for the proposal started in October 2010 as permission to use the landfill finishes in 2013.

The proposal will mean the tip can receive up to 6,500,000 m3 of rubbish with the height of the landfill increased but the boundary would be further away from homes on the nearby Saxon Park estate.

A vehicle cap to reduce the amount of traffic in the next 12 years has been promised but there are no proposed changes to operating hours despite complaints lorries have been arriving and queuing at the site in the early hours of the morning.

WRG have argued there is a need for the tip as others in the area will begin to close by 2013 and they have been working to ease concerns.

More than 200 people have signed a petition, created by the Arpley Landfill Opposition Group, opposing the plans highlighting the ‘ongoing nuisance of dangerous, speeding lorries, dirt, dust, litter and traffic’ as their main concerns.

Comments include: “Close this place before the lorries kill someone” and “Surely Warrington does not want to remain the dumping ground for the north west any longer.”

Clr Wright has invited residents to a meeting at Sankey Bridges Community Centre, Old Liverpool Road, on Wednesday at 7pm.

She added: “It’s important the people of Warrington oppose this application as it will be bringing in waste from outside of the town.

“We don’t want other people’s waste.”