IS Huncoat to be surrounded by rubbish? Do we need another refuse dump?

The proposed recycling plant on the former power station site can only compound the nuisance value this village has had to endure over the past years.

One would have thought that, with the demise of the coal pit, the closures of the brickworks and the power station, the village would have been able to return to its roots as a country village named in the Domesday book -- such is its history.

But it would appear that future historians will look on Huncoat as a huge rubbish dump, blighted by traffic to-ing and fro-ing between one dump and another, together with traffic to the industrial estates.

The village will not only sink under the weight of the rubbish but die from traffic pollution.

It does not want, or indeed need any further encroachments.

What is the use of having a lovely landscaped parkland on the old put site off Enfield Road if we cannot enjoy it to the full?

In fact, with increased traffic this could completely disappear under the 'proposed' by-pass. What a shambles this village is facing.

As your readers may be aware REACH has been strongly campaigning for a direct access from the M65 to serve Whinney Hill landfill site and adjacent industrial estates in order to alleviate the problems to the surrounding districts.

Until this is achieved the traffic problems will not go away, whether the proposed Huncoat Power Station re-development goes ahead or not.

GEOFFREY WHEATMAN, Chairman REACH, Enfield Road, Huncoat.