A waste company has submitted new plans for a controversial landfill tip at Denholme.

Plans to create the tip by Humberside-based Wastewise have run into fierce opposition from residents.

They believe it should not be allowed - and were horrified when Bradford Council dropped its objections to an initial planning application.

The original planning application was rejected by Shipley area planning sub committee last July and the row was set to go to a public inquiry.

But Bradford Council withdrew from the process and the company decided to re-submit its bid for the tip.

Today members of Denholme Residents' Action Group (DRAG) vowed to continue their fight to block the plans for Buck Park Quarry in Whalley Lane, Denholme.

The amended application has a variation of conditions which includes the addition of a puffin crossing on the A629 as well as tree screening and a landscape management plan that would be installed before infilling takes place.

The changes have been added to try to placate villagers who are concerned about pedestrian safety on Halifax Road and the environmental impact of the proposed waste site. Representatives from Wastewise have already met members of Denholme Town Council and DRAG to discuss the fears of villagers.

DRAG member Sharon Makinson said today that the feeling of anger in the village was even stronger than it had been before.

"There's very little different about the new applications. People will definitely be very much opposed," she said.

"There's a lot of anger and in a way the anger is double what it was before because there's the anger at the application itself, which is to be expected, and there's the anger at the way the first application was handled."

The original Wastewise application to develop a landfill site with a capacity for 2.4 million cubic metres of waste.

Mrs Makinson said DRAG was still determined to fight the amended scheme and planned to repeat the successful protest march it staged last year

"We feel we are stronger because we know certain things this time round that we didn't before," she said.

"We know what's going on now and we will pull out all the stops this time."

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