AN ACTION group campaigning to stop a landfill site in Risley being extended is holding a public meeting next month.

Site owner Biffa is set to appeal against a decision not to allow it to remain open for another three years or to dump a further 1.2 million cubic metres of waste there.

"We've had 27 years of waste, the majority of it brought in from outside Warrington," said Russ Bowden, spokesman for the Risley Landfill Opposition Group.

"Enough is enough. We don't want the council to let them dump on us anymore."

Biffa has had two applications turned down by the borough council's development control committee concerning Risley.

The waste giant told the most recent planning meeting, held last October, that it would promise not to make a further application for extended use beyond 2011 if this one was granted.

But campaigners say the tip is already too big with residents and parish councils from across east Warrington objecting on the grounds that it is unsightly, smells and causes congestion and damage when wagons rumble down the area's narrow country lanes.

The public meeting will take place on Monday, March 3 at The Daten (Culcheth Sports and Social Club) in Charnock Road.

To find out more call Russ on 07814 682347 or e-mail risleylandfilloppositiongroup@hot mail.co.uk