VILLAGERS will tonight find out if a waste firm can build an eco-power plant close to their homes.
Waste Recycling Group wants to build an anaerobic digester at its Sutton Courtenay site, off Appleford Road.
The facility would use maize crops to create renewable energy to power machinery and office equipment on the landfill site. Any surplus electricity would be sold into the National Grid.
The new proposal came after Oxfordshire County Council blocked the firm’s bid to build a £20m mechanical biological treatment plant on the site in September last year.
But opponents are concerned that the new smaller development could lead to greater industrialisation of the area.
Planning officers have recommended that Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee refuse the application this evening, on the grounds that it is not necessary.
Gervase Duffield, the district councillor for Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, will be speaking against the proposal.
The meeting, which is open to the public, starts at 6.30pm in the council chamber at Abbey House, in Abbey Close, Abingdon.
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