A STOCKTON Heath councillor is campaigning to move large skips on a pilloried recycling tip away from the doorsteps of residents.

Fraught residents have long complained about the growing headache of noise, odours and pollution that comes from the neighbouring Sandy Lane tip.

Clr Celia Jordan has held discussions with site workers who, she says, are sympathetic to the residents' concerns. The councillor has asked for a large rubble skip, situated very close to overlooking houses, to be moved.

It is believed that some traders may be using the skip illegally to dump rubbish, but as relocation could involve revamping the entrance and barrier, the change could prove expensive.

During the recent heatwave, residents have particularly suffered, with the dust and pollution stopping them from opening their windows.

Clr Jordan said: "The tip is far too small, well overused and inefficient in many ways. It has outgrown its current site. The Government is making sites meet new recycling targets, it just isn't very nice when it happens to be next to you."

Residents have been given sound monitors to record levels of noise at the tip in a bid to convince the authorities to find an alternative site.

Dennis Hunt, who lives in Brindley Court, next to the tip, said: "They haven't done anything to improve the situation. The skip is right on top of us, literally within a few feet."

Homeowners are frustrated that the tip has not been relocated, despite promises when they moved into their houses that an alternative site was soon to be announced.

Town Hall bosses are looking at old industrial sites as a possible alternative, after people in Appleton spoke out against using the old Stretton airfield.