Hangleton Bottom to be listed as waste management site

Councillor Tony Janio argued that the vacant site, next to the A27 Brighton bypass and A293 link road, was ‘simply unsuitable for any form of waste transfer or waste processing site’.

But the Conservative councillor’s bid to remove it from a list of potential sites for processing rubbish and recycling was criticised as ‘antics’ by Labour councillors at a Brighton and Hove City Council meeting at Hove Town Hall yesterday (Thursday 19 January).

Cllr Janio raised concerns about a possible plan to build an anaerobic digester there and said that they should be kept as far from homes and population centres as possible, raising worries about traffic and potentially hazardous gases.

Labour councillor Gill Mitchell, the deputy leader of the council, said: “I am finding this quite astonishing. We are now seeing politics being played at this late stage with this report.

“This plan has been three years in the making and it has gone through extensive rounds of consultation.”

An independent official planning inspector had found it compliant with the law and sound, she said, adding that it other local authorities were also in the process of formally adopting it.