PLANS to build a waste transfer site on an industrial estate have been criticised by neighbouring business owners.
The proposal by West London Commercial Properties is to develop the site at 47 Wallingford Road, Uxbridge. It would deal with approximately 60,000 tonnes of rubbish per year.
The waste would be brought in by refuse collection lorries, put into large loads and transported onwards to waste processing plants.
If agreed by Hillingdon Council, the transfer site would replace the existing bus and coach depot used by MCH and Wing Luxury Travel. But one neighbour, Dave Power, managing director of Powerflex, has written to the council to express his concerns.
He said: “I’m not happy about it. The estate infrastructure isn’t suitable for the size and volume of the lorries which will come down here.
“The surrounding area will suffer. Cowley Mill Road is not designed for 44 tonne trucks. There is a school, pedestrians, and a residential area all close to the estate. Pollution also has to be a consideration.”
All lorries to and from the site will have to use the southern end of Cowley Mill Road, in order to avoid the weight restricted Swan Bridge over the Grand Union Canal.
Those that do not use Slough Road out of the borough will follow St John’s Road and Rockingham Road to get to Mahjacks roundabout in Uxbridge town centre.
The planning submission states the intention is for the waste transfer site to serve as a catalyst for redevelopment of the estate, which it considers ‘not desirable in appearance’.
West London Commercial Properties did not get back to the Gazette before we went to press.
