I used to live in fairly close proximity to it in the Westlands, this was about two years ago. There were rumblings about it then, however it seems that since we’ve moved its really taken off. I’ve always been a very very mild asthmatic, however looking back now in the 5 years that we lived in proximity my asthma got progressively worse, to the point that I could go through an entire inhaler in the space of a week, sinned we moved to Alsager I’ve used it on one or two occasions, no more. I know that they were perfuming the air to help to mask the smell back then, when running past it you could really smell it.
There must be some kickbacks going on, for the lack of input from the EA and local councillors. It’s an absolute disgrace to have that in such close proximity to households and businesses. I feel bad for people who bought the new builds about 7-8 years ago that back onto it, they’re completely stuck now with no chance of selling unless they take a massive hit. I can’t believe that they’re building more houses on the old Hamptons scrapyard, they’ll back onto both the landfill and the gypsy camp whilst also having cars ending up in their back gardens in the winter when Keele bank gets iced up.