Objection will further delay dump decision

THE waste management crisis in Cork took another turn for the worse yesterday with the announcement that serious objections are to be made to An Bord Pleanála over a 56 million landfill county council plan.

Hot on the heels of news that Cork City Council is set to export its waste because it is due to run out of landfill space, comes confirmation from a residents group that they are to lodge an objection against the council’s proposal to develop one the largest super dumps ever built in Ireland.

The results of an oral hearing held by the Environmental Protection Agency into licensing the facility are due in a matter of days.