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Article: West Sussex unique waste summit meeting.
- Article from:
- West Sussex Today (Worthing, England)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2008
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WEST Sussex was urged to minimise landfill operations and resist creating new sites, when a unique waste summit was held in Pulborough on Friday. The event, attended by more than 40 officials, councillors and representatives of landfill protest groups, had been organised by Nick Herbert, MP for Arundel and South Downs.
Two new waste sites are proposed in his constituency- at Laybrook brickworks near Thakeham, and Rock Common sandpit, Washington, while a third at Small Dole is seeking permission to extend operations, which should have ceased in 2004.
Representatives of the action groups for each site- Thakeham Village Action ,Chanctonbury Action Group and ...